Right Wing Watch has spent years documenting the fact that Nick Fuentes is a Hitler-loving racist, misogynistic, antisemitic, homophobic, Christian nationalist, fascist, white nationalist, which has been demonstrably established based solely on the things he says on his own nightly program.
During that time, RWW has compiled a massive archive of clips showing Fuentes praising Hitler, demonizing Jews, and using the N-word, all while calling for women to be burned alive, for non-Christians to be executed, and for the nation to be taken over by a fascist dictatorship.
It is because of this litany of evidence that it becomes a scandal when Fuentes is treated to a friendly interview by the likes of Tucker Carlson or is allowed to dine with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
But to hear Fuentes tell it, RWW's diligence in chronicling the things he says and the positions for which he advocates is nothing but a "smear campaign" aimed at "reputational destruction" and personal harm.
Last week, Fuentes appeared on "The Jack Neel Podcast" for what proved to be just the latest in a series of softball interviews he has been doing with popular content creators. In this interview, Fuentes kicked things off by specifically blaming RWW for making him "out to be a fanatic, a nut job, a hateful person."
"I was not really controversial when I got started," Fuentes insisted. "I didn't really say anything that was that out there, but I was saying that Israel is not our ally, so they put somebody on me. In this case, it was Jared Holt at Right Wing Watch. Right Wing Watch is a subsidiary of People For the American Way, which is a [George] Soros-funded nonprofit. So, this guy would watch my show every night—he was paid to do this, it's his job—and he was paid to look for every time I said anything controversial—anything that sounded controversial, any joke that sounded offensive—and his job was then to clip what sounded bad, post it on Twitter, and say that represented that I'm a white nationalist, I'm an extremist, neo-Nazi, Christian fanatic."
"And this has taken place over the course of 10 years," Fuentes continued. "Ever since I was 18 years old, this is what I have been subjected to. And after 10 years, you get a profile as all your worst clips, all the things that could sound bad, all those things have been compiled over your entire career and then they make you out to be a fanatic, a nut job, a hateful person. And so that's how I got the reputation as a white supremacist, white nationalist, all of the above."
Fuentes claimed that the real purpose behind cataloging his extremist statements is to "rile up their base" so that someone will try to harm him, as happened when someone showed up at Fuentes' house in late 2024.
"He was effectively sicced on me by these types of groups that built up that catalog of horrible things, that engage in that reputational destruction," Fuentes asserted. "It's sort of the anatomy of a smear, the anatomy of that kind of labeling and that kind of smear campaign."
First of all, while Jared Holt began covering Fuentes in 2017, RWW did not start regularly watching and clipping Fuentes' nightly show until 2022, after Holt had already left the organization.
Secondly, the purpose behind chronicling Fuentes' extremism is not to endanger him—which is something we obviously condemn—but rather to document the influence that his views are having on the conservative movement and, by extension, the government, which is something that he openly brags about.
Finally, did it ever occur to Fuentes that the reason he has developed a reputation as a racist, antisemitic, neo-Nazi, Christian nationalist fanatic, extremist nut job is because he spends hours every night saying things that give people the impression that he is a racist, antisemitic, neo-Nazi, Christian nationalist fanatic, extremist nut job?
