Tucker Carlson Defiantly Shuts Down Megyn Kelly Question On Why He Didn’t Call Out Nick Fuentes’s Bigotry

Megyn Kelly sat down with her old Fox News colleague Tucker Carlson for the latest episode of her SiriusXM show and asked Carlson about his recent platforming of white nationalist and vehement anti-Semite Nick Fuentes.

“Nick Fuentes has said a long list of very vile things,” Kelly said, mentioning the interview that has sparked a civil war within MAGA.

“Big time, including attacking my dad, which was the most vile of all, in my opinion,”  Carlson added.

“Yeah. I mean, I personally have watched videos of him questioning the Holocaust, likening it to baking cookies in the oven. ‘And there’s no way you could have gotten to six million’ seems to be his theory. He seems to think that we’ve way overstated the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust. He’s ripped on poor Usha Vance in the most offensive terms. I mean, so what do you say to those people who say, ‘Why didn’t you raise any of that?’” Kelly asked.

“You know, do your own interview the way that you want to do it. You’re not my editor. Buzz off. I mean, I don’t know. You want to go yell at Nick Fuentes? I’ll give you his cell. Call him and go sit and yell at him and feel virtuous or whatever,” Carlson replied, adding:

That’s up to you. I got the same thing with Putin. “Why aren’t you yelling at him?” Okay, why? So I can show that I’m a good person? I care about what my wife thinks, my children think, and God thinks. And that’s it. I don’t need to prove that I am a good person to you! You may think I’m a terrible person. Okay, I’m just doing my thing, which is I want to understand what people think. And I’m committed to that. And if you don’t like it, don’t watch. That’s my view.

Kelly had previously refused to denounce the likes of Carlson and Candace Owens over their more controversial comments of late, including Owens suggesting Israel had somehow been involved with the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Fuentes’s long list of saying hateful things has ignited a fierce debate within MAGA, as many accuse Carlson of having let him into the movement. Fuentes has long been known for his explicit anti-Semitism, as well as his repeated calls for limiting the rights of women, minorities, and the LGBTQ community. His regular use of violent rhetoric has also caused alarm. “All I want is revenge against my enemies and a total Aryan victory,” Fuentes said, for example, in 2022.

Watch the clip above.

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