US EditionHeritage Foundation board member resigns over Tucker Carlson defense
Robert George resigned after Heritage president refused to retract his defense of Carlson's interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, prompting multiple high-profile departures.
- In a Facebook post, Robert P. George announced his resignation from the Heritage Foundation Monday because Kevin P. Roberts refused a full retraction of the Oct. 30 video, George said, `Although Kevin publicly apologized for some of what he said in the video, he could not offer a full retraction of its content. So, we reached an impasse`.
- After Carlson's Oct. 27 interview, which critics said aired antisemitic views of Nick Fuentes, Kevin P. Roberts defended Carlson on Oct. 30, warning against 'canceling' him and calling him a close friend.
- Several senior staff described themselves as embarrassed, while the controversy triggered multiple departures including at least five members of the antisemitism task force and Project Esther's official exit after more than a dozen quit.
- A Heritage Foundation spokesman thanked Robert P. George for his service and expressed confidence in Kevin P. Roberts' leadership, even as Heritage continued to lose high-profile conservatives and donors.
- The episode has prompted debate among conservative influencers and intellectuals about the need for better guardrails against bigotry, while Robert P. George urged the conservative movement to uphold human dignity and the moral principles of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
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Princeton professor resigns from the Heritage Foundation board over organization's defense of Tucker Carlson
Robert P. George, the McCormick professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University, announced Nov. 17 that he has stepped down from the Heritage Foundation’s board of trustees… The post Princeton professor resigns from the Heritage Foundation board over organization’s defense of Tucker Carlson appeared first on CatholicVote org.
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Another major conservative bolts Heritage Foundation as backlash to its president’s defense of Tucker Carlson’s Nick Fuentes interview grows
Robert P. George stepped down from the Heritage Foundation's board after the think-tank's president, Kevin Roberts, defended Tucker Carlson's interview with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.
'Reached an impasse': Prominent conservative quits top job as MAGA rift widens
The Heritage Foundation, billed as the “intellectual backbone” of the conservative movement, has just lost one of the nation’s most prominent conservatives: Princeton Professor Robert P. George. His departure came after the organization’s president, Kevin Roberts, publicly called Tucker Carlson a “c...
Heritage board member resigns over leader's defense of Fuentes
A Heritage Foundation board member resigned after the organization’s president defended Tucker Carlson‘s interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Robert P. George, McCormick professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University, joins an exodus of foundation staffers who have fled as a result of Kevin Roberts’s defense of Carlson. Roberts has since apologized for backing Carlson in a video in which he said he would not bow to the “venomous co…
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