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Former Trump economic adviser Stephen Moore announced on Thursday that he was resigning his post with the Heritage Foundation amidst controversy over Tucker Carlson’s interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
Moore posted the announcement to X, but did not address the “Nazi” scandal that’s enveloped the conservative think-tank.
“Friends: After 12 happy and productive years, I have decided to resign my position as senior visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation in order to concentrate my work load on continuing to build up @Comm4Prosperity and the mounting influence of our daily Hotline. As Ed Feulner would say: ‘onward,’” he wrote.
Feulner is one of current president Kevin Roberts’s predecessors. Roberts is facing major backlash over his defense of Carlson for giving Fuentes a forum on his podcast.
“We will always defend truth, we will always defend America, and we will always defend our friends against the slander of bad actors who serve someone else’s agenda. That includes Tucker Carlson, who remains – and as I have said before, always will be – a close friend of the Heritage Foundation,” Roberts said. ” The venomous coalition attacking him are sowing division. Their attempt to cancel him will fail.”
In the wake of Roberts’s statement, some of his Heritage Foundation colleagues took to social media to remind Roberts, “NAZIS ARE BAD.”
Richard Stern, the director of Heritage’s economic policy institute and federal budget center, retweeted the meme, adding, “Evidently, a truth that is never more than one generation away from being forgotten.”
Other Heritage Foundation staffers also retweeted the meme, including, Jason Bedrick, Jay Greene, and John Peluso.
In a private town hall with Heritage Foundation staff this week, Roberts admitted, “I let you down and I let down this institution. Period. Full Stop. I made the mess, let me clean it up.”
