Right-wing US TV host Tucker Carlson has released a video praising Britain's most notorious wartime fascist Oswald Mosley, while attacking Winston Churchill. The former Fox News host, a longtime ally of Donald Trump until the US war in Iran, gushes over Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s.
In the video posted to Twitter, Carlson falsely claims Mosley was the "leader of the opposition" and that he was imprisoned for the "entire length of the war." Mosley was interned by the British Government for three years in the early 1940s over concerns about his Nazi sympathies, but was released on health grounds two years before the war ended.
Carlson also incorrectly describes Mosley as a "First World War war hero." In reality, Mosley was injured in a plane crash while showing off for his mother and sister, and spent the rest of the war in a desk job. He left Parliament nearly a decade before becoming a fascist leader, and in 1936 married in Joseph Goebbels' home at a ceremony attended by Adolf Hitler.
Carlson, once a stalwart Trump supporter, has drifted further right in recent years and remains influential among conservatives despite controversy over hosting white nationalist Nick Fuentes. The Iran war continues to fracture right-wing media, with figures like Ben Shapiro and Megyn Kelly clashing over antisemitism and the conflict.
