- Andrew Kaczynski and Steve Contorno @ CNN: Fierce backlash within GOP after Tucker Carlson gives White nationalist Nick Fuentes a platform
Nick Fuentes, the well-known White nationalist and Holocaust denier, has ignited a civil war within the Republican Party — and inside one of Washington’s most prominent conservative think tanks.
- Clyde McGrady @ The New York Times: Nick Fuentes’s Rise Puts MAGA Movement in a ‘Time of Choosing’
After Mr. Fuentes’s interview with Tucker Carlson, Republicans are considering just how far his views are from the nationalism embraced by President Trump’s followers.
- James Kirchick @ The New York Times: How Tucker Carlson instigated an inevitable war within MAGA
Finally, the battle lines are being drawn as conservatives grapple over a bigotry in their midst.
- Jane Lee, Isabella Corrao, Harrison Ray and Rob Savillo @ Media Matters: Fox News demanded that presidents know whom they pardoned. Then Trump said he didn’t know the crypto tycoon he pardoned.
Fox News has spent 1 hour and 23 minutes discussing Biden’s use of the autopen while airing only 3 minutes of coverage on Trump's pardon of founder of Binance. Trump claimed on 60 Minutes that he knew “nothing about” the pardon.
- Ryan J. Reilly @ NBC News: Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced a single misdemeanor after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.