Calling U.S. President Donald Trump’s defense of former Fox News host Tucker Carlson “disgusting,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced on the Senate floor on Thursday that he would introduce a resolution condemning antisemitism and white supremacy.

The highest-ranking Jewish official in Congress, the senator said that his resolution also would call out Carlson for giving a platform to Holocaust denier and white supremacist Nick Fuentes. He called on his Republican colleagues to “take a clear stand against hatred and antisemitism” by supporting his proposal.

Trump told reporters over the weekend that he had no problem with Carlson’s interview with Fuentes, who has dined with the president and Ye, the former Kanye West, who also has expressed antisemitic views.

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