{"id":792342,"date":"2026-10-05T04:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T04:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792342\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T04:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T04:54:17","slug":"jacob-rees-mogg-accuses-tucker-carlson-of-verging-on-defending-hitler-tucker-carlson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792342\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Rees-Mogg accuses Tucker Carlson of \u2018verging on defending Hitler\u2019 | Tucker Carlson"},"content":{"rendered":"

The former Tory minister Jacob Rees-Mogg<\/a> has found himself defending Britain\u2019s decision to fight against Adolf Hitler after inviting the US rightwinger and Vladimir Putin sympathiser Tucker Carlson into his home for an interview.<\/p>\n

During the encounter, Carlson repeatedly suggested the west was to blame for inviting aggression from Russia<\/a> and said of the prospect that Britain could have lost to Hitler: \u201cWho cares?\u201d<\/p>\n

Rees-Mogg, who lost his parliamentary seat in 2024, appears to have agreed to host Carlson\u2019s podcast show after carving out a post-politics career as a commentator.<\/p>\n

Carlson set up the show after leaving Fox News and losing faith with Donald Trump, largely citing the US president\u2019s willingness to get involved in foreign wars. Carlson has interviewed Putin and taken a sympathetic position towards Russia over Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the lengthy debate on foreign policy and global tensions, the US commentator repeatedly goaded Rees-Mogg over the smallness of the UK armed forces and suggested Russia was more powerful.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Rees-Mogg explained that the UK economy was bigger and made the case that Britain and western allies had to support Ukraine and deter Russian aggression.<\/p>\n

Carlson went on to question why Britain bothered entering the second world war and claimed Germany had a legitimate claim over parts of Poland.<\/p>\n

Rees-Mogg said: \u201cOtherwise we\u2019d be speaking German.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlson replied: \u201cWho cares? There are a lot of people in Britain who can\u2019t speak English. So it would be nice to have at least a European language spoken in your country.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the interview, Rees-Mogg said he was very surprised that Carlson was \u201cverging on defending Hitler\u201d, adding: \u201cI think this is not really what you want to be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlson replied: \u201cYeah, I guess I\u2019m just a secret Nazi. I\u2019m actually not a secret Nazi \u2026 and hardly a public Nazi.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rees-Mogg responded that he was reassured, before saying that \u201cGermany would have invaded us\u201d if the UK had not gone to war.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The interview has raised eyebrows in the US as well as Britain, with the Republican Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, posting on X: \u201cWhen it seemed impossible for Toxic Tucker to descend deeper into the sewer here he goes opining that UK should have let Nazis take over. Forget that Hitler murdered 11 million people? I thought Tucker was against killing? He needs help. Serious help.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Tory minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has found himself defending Britain\u2019s decision to fight against Adolf Hitler after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-792342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}