It'll be interesting to see how the Trump/Vance campaign handles this.
Recently, fired former Fox News host Tucker Carlson gave an interview to Darryl Cooper, a blatant neo-Nazi, anti-Semite, and Holocaust denier, which has caused a lot of backlash from a wide variety of groups.
The problem for the Trump campaign is that Vance and Donald Jr are scheduled to appear with Carlson on some sort of tour later this month. And apparently Vance has already recorded an interview with Carlson and it's set to be released soon. This has caused the conservative Wall St. Journal to call for Trump to disavow Tucker Carlson and cancel all upcoming appearances, interviews, etc. with him.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-trump-must-disavow-tucker-carlson/ar-AA1qkNTE
Donald Trump faces a defining choice: Will he allow his running mate, JD Vance, and his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., to appear on tour with Tucker Carlson later this month? In the wake of Mr. Carlson’s recent interview with Darryl Cooper, an unabashed Holocaust denier, this is a decision that Mr. Trump can’t duck.
Mr. Cooper has said that the Nazis “launched a war where they were completely unprepared to deal with the millions and millions of prisoners of war, of local political prisoners. They went in with no plan for that and just threw these people into camps.” As a result, “millions of people ended up dead there.” Savor the phrase “ended up dead there.” Whoops. The Holocaust was a terrible accident, the consequence of poor planning—this from the man whom Mr. Carlson said may be “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States.”
Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, responded with the unadorned truth: “Tucker Carlson and his guest Darryl Cooper engaged in one of the most repugnant forms of Holocaust denial of recent years. These far-fetched conspiracy theories are not only dangerous and malevolent, they are antisemitic.”
The Republican vice-presidential nominee, by contrast, contented itself with this statement from a spokesman: Mr. Vance “doesn’t believe in guilt-by-association cancel culture but he obviously does not share the views of the guest interviewed by Tucker Carlson.” Translation: Mr. Vance won’t utter a word of rebuke to Mr. Carlson, and he rejects the claim that Mr. Carlson shares the views of the “honest” popular historian to whom he gave a platform to spread his views.
Not so fast, Mr. Vance. Did your staff happen to tell you that while Mr. Carlson acknowledged that people could take issue with Mr. Cooper’s factual claims, he went on to say that “they’re certainly consistent with what I think I know to be true”? It is hard to discern any daylight between Mr. Carlson and his guest. There certainly is little distance between Mr. Carlson and Mr. Vance.
This isn’t a one-day media flap. It goes to the heart of what the Republican Party has become under the rule of Mr. Trump.
This brings us back to Donald, the only person left on the right who can put an end to this madness. He can denounce Mr. Carlson. He can tell his running mate and his son not to appear on Mr. Carlson’s tour. By reaffirming the truth about the Holocaust and World War II, he can draw a bright line between what’s acceptable and what isn’t. If he doesn’t do this, he will prove that he isn’t strong enough to stand up to the blatant antisemitism in his own party.
