JD Vance is standing by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson amid widespread outrage over a recent interview whitewashing Hitler and the Holocaust.

While promoting the interview on X, Carlson praised Cooper as “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States.”

Article is actually kinda thin, to be honest. But the couch-fucker gets clicks, I guess.

  • superkret@feddit.org
    28·
    2 months ago

    The controversial statement:

    “You know, Germany, look, they put themselves into a position in, Adolf Hitler’s chiefly responsible for this, but his whole regime is responsible for it, that when they went into the east in 1941, they launched a war where they were completely unprepared to deal with the millions and millions of prisoners of war, of local political prisoners, and so forth that they were going to have to handle. They went in with no plan for that and they just threw these people into camps. And millions of people ended up dead there.”

    Apart from the blatant Holocaust denial, it’s interesting that he completely discards the attack on Poland and puts the start of the war in 1941 when they invaded Russia.

    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, TBF

      "And millions of people ended up dead there.”

      is pretty disingenuous too. They ended up dead because they were systematically murdered. Plus they mostly weren’t prisoners of war, it was a targeted genocide.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      Apparently, when they were “reunifying” German lands, it was ok. Somehow, that wasn’t “conquest.” I was also struck by the two years of war that didn’t enter the tabulations.