Tucker Carlson blasted for interview with Holocaust revisionist

Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson is facing criticism after hosting a Holocaust revisionist on his podcast.

Carlson, a former Fox News pundit, now hosts “The Tucker Carlson Show” on the social platform X. Earlier this week, he welcomed podcaster Darryl Cooper, and introducing him as the United States’s “most important popular historian.”

During the interview, Cooper made several controversial claims about the Holocaust and World War II.

He claimed Winston Churchill was the “chief villain” of the second World War but acknowledged Adolf Hitler is “chiefly responsible” for the war that put people in concentration camps. Cooper also made controversial comments about Nazi Germany’s mass murder of Jewish people, claiming it was a result of of poor planning for handling people who came under their control.

Carlson has a reputation for spreading controversial claims, and his falsehoods about the 2020 election led to him parting ways with Fox News in 2023.

X and Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared the podcast to his personal account, calling it “Very interesting. Worth watching.” He later deleted his post, The New York Times reported.

Having Cooper on his podcast has drawn criticism from both sides of the aisle.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) told Jewish Insider it was “deeply disturbing” to give Holocaust revisionists a platform.

“During my time in the State Assembly, I worked with Democrats and Republicans to help pass legislation aimed at ensuring all students in New York received proper education on the Holocaust, something Mr. Cooper clearly never had,” Lawler said.

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) told the outlet that revisionist history about the Holocaust is “a lie and does harm in the fight against antisemitism.”

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), responding to the podcast in a post on X, described it as “pro-Nazi propaganda.”

“No serious or honorable person would support or endorse this type of garbage,” she wrote.

The Biden administration denounced Carlson for giving Cooper a platform.

“Giving a microphone to a Holocaust denier who spreads Nazi propaganda is a disgusting and sadistic insult to all Americans, to the member of the over 6 million Jews who were genocidally murdered by Adolf Hitler, to the service of the millions of Americans who fought to defeat Nazism, and to every subsequent victim of Antisemitism,” senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates told CNN.

The Hill has reached out to Tucker Carlson for comment, but he told CNN that the Biden administration is “warmonger freaks.”

“The fact that these lunatics have used the Churchill myth to bring our country closer to nuclear war than at any moment in history disgusts me,” he said.

Earlier this week, Carlson launched his 16-day speaking tour, where he will travel the country and interview allies of former President Trump ahead of the election. He kicked off the tour in Arizona with celebrity Russell Brand.