Russell Brand claims neo-Nazi holocaust denier was forward of the curve

Shamed Russell Brand has spoken publicly for the primary time about a number of rape allegations he faces denying the accusations and describing them as ‘hurtful assaults’.

Brand, 48, appeared on Tucker Carlson’s X present Wednesday throughout a rambling and wide-ranging 45-minute interview the place he referenced the allegations he faces and the continued police and BBC investigations a number of instances.  

‘Of course I deny any allegations… which were superior,’ he stated, including ‘I reject the allegations within the strongest potential phrases.’ 

The star of Arthur and Forgetting Sarah Marshall described the crimes he is accused of as ‘appalling’ earlier than including criticsm he faces is a ‘deliberate profound try to shut down any dissent in an astonishingly aggressive means.’

During the discussions the says that on the time of the documentary his toddler son who was 12 weeks previous on the time was present process coronary heart surgical procedure.

‘My son was born with a coronary heart situation, whereas this was taking place he was present process coronary heart surgical procedure at 12 weeks previous,’ he advised Carlson.

Brand has been questioned by police twice in relation to a complete of 9 alleged offences and police inquiries are ongoing. He has all the time maintained that his relationships have been consensual.

Russell Brand proven right here throughout his look on Carlson’s present on January 31

Carlson joined Brand for an interview in 2023 shortly after the host was fired by Fox News

Brand stated that when the documentary was broadcast, his son was present process coronary heart surgical procedure at simply 12 weeks previous. 

During one other portion of the published, Brand’s consideration turned to David Icke.  

‘It terrifies me to ponder, Tucker, that individuals like Alex Jones and in our nation, David Icke … seem to have been forward of the curve,’ Brand stated. Adding that it was ‘extraordinary’ for a way lengthy the pair have been talking about ‘globalization.’

Allegations of holocaust denial have been labelled at Icke since his 1995 e book And the Truth Shall Set You Free. In the e book, Icke alleged that outstanding Jewish households ‘helped finance Adolf Hitler.’

He additionally wrote that faculties ‘indoctrinate kids with the unchallenged model of occasions’ with the mainstream account of the Holocaust because of their use of free copies of the movie Schindler’s List.’ 

Brand and Icke’s relationship goes again almost 20 years. In 2008, Icke appeared twice as a visitor on the Forgetting Sarah Marshall star’s notorious BBC Radio 2. 

According to the Anti-Defamation League, Jones, who’s most identified for his denials concerning the Sandy Hook Elementary taking pictures which noticed 20 kids shot lifeless, just isn’t overtly anti-Semitic however ‘has featured antisemitic friends on his present.’

One such visitor, Kanye West, admitted in a December 2022 interview on the present that ‘appreciated Hitler.’ Icke himself has been a visitor on Jones’ InfoWars present on a number of events. 

Brand pictured with Holocaust denier David Icke in 2008 on the top of Brand’s ill-fated Hollywood profession

Brand’s shift from left-wing darling to a well-liked with the appropriate has been described because the ‘grift drift’

 This week, liberal watchdog Media Matters revealed a examine on Brand’s transfer from being a left-wing darling to somebody ‘uncritically platforms right-wing figures and baseless conspiracy theories.’ 

Less than ten years in the past, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld referred to as Brand ‘left-wing commie scum.’ In the previous 18 months, Gutfeld recurrently speaks glowingly about Brand saying that the actor selected ‘fact’ over ‘stardom’ in strolling away from his film profession.

Media Matters calls Brand’s shift the ‘grift drift.’ 

Brand stated within the look that he believes that ‘authoritarianism’ is being weaponized with phrases resembling ‘care, concern, security, and comfort’ however that the final word purpose is for people to lose their freedoms. 

‘It appears to me that we’re in a time the place we lurch from one disaster to a different. The disaster is all the time used to legitimize sure options and a docile or terrified public is willingly to take part on this proposed options that normally contain giving up their freedom,’ he went on. 

‘We’re frequently being invited to surrender our freedom in alternate for security or comfort and it appears that evidently this course of is radically escalating. And I really feel that that is one thing that we’ll see extra of within the coming yr.’

Brand has been questioned by detectives from London’s Metropolitan Police over allegations of historic intercourse offences.

British police stated in September they’d launched an investigation into plenty of allegations of non-recent sexual offences following media stories that ladies had accused Brand of a string of sexual assaults.

Brand has rejected what he has described as ‘very severe allegations’, saying on his social media channels he has by no means had non-consensual intercourse.

There was no fast response to a request for touch upon Sunday’s report from representatives for Brand.

‘A person in his 40s attended a police station in South London on Thursday 16 November 2023,’ the Metropolitan Police stated in a press release, declining to verify whether or not it was Brand.

‘He was interviewed beneath warning by detectives in relation to 3 non-recent sexual offences. Enquiries proceed,’ the power added.