Matt Walsh Defends White Nationalist Organization On Daily Wire Podcast

The podcast host went to bat for a group that once advocated creating a white ethnostate in America, calling VDare’s ideas “inconvenient.”

Matt Walsh, one of the most-listened-to podcast hosts in America, defended a well-known white nationalist organization on his Daily Wire show this week. On Tuesday’s episode of his eponymous podcast, Walsh argued that VDare — a racist nonprofit listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center — was being targeted by a government investigation solely because of its “inconvenient” and “unpopular” beliefs.

“The attorney general of New York, Letitia James, is of course best known for her campaign to seize all the assets of the leading presidential candidate, Donald Trump,” Walsh said. “What she’s not so well-known for is her campaign to target the website VDare explicitly because of its inconvenient and unpopular beliefs. This is a story that’s gotten very little attention in conservative media, but it’s every bit as scandalous as what Letitia James is doing to Donald Trump.”

Walsh was referring to James’ ongoing investigation into whether VDare’s 2020 purchase of a $1.4 million castle in West Virginia may have violated its New York nonprofit status. He also alluded to the fact that earlier this year James won a civil fraud lawsuit against Trump for falsely inflating his net worth, meaning that the former president could be on the hook for $454 million if he loses on appeal.

“VDare likes to talk about things like crime statistics and what happens in cities like Baltimore,” Walsh said, likely referring to the VDare website’s skewed, racist of coverage of “Black crime” in America. “So therefore, like Donald Trump, they need to be crushed. Every real estate transaction they’ve ever engaged in needs to be carefully scrutinized until they’re bankrupt.”

Walsh also complained that not enough conservatives were standing up for VDare. “Is there anyone in this country who’s even suggested sacrificing anything for a site like VDare?” he asked. “Of course not. They have unfashionable views. So they’re not going to be around much longer.”