Axios reports:
Former President Trump dined and conversed with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and rapper Ye at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday night, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Trump’s direct engagement with a man labeled a “white supremacist” by the Justice Department, one week after declaring his 2024 candidacy, is likely to draw renewed outrage over the former president’s embrace of extremists.
Ye claims in the video that Trump was “really impressed” with Fuentes because “unlike so many of the lawyers and so many people that he was left with on his 2020 campaign, he’s actually a loyalist.”
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NEW: Statement from fmr President Trump in response to our story about his dinner w Ye and Fuentes: “Kanye West very much wanted to visit Mar-a-Lago. Our dinner meeting was intended to be Kanye and me only, but he arrived with a guest whom I had never met and knew nothing about.” https://t.co/RLfWtJTfzQ
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) November 25, 2022
Trump, 2016: "I Don't Know Anything About David Duke."
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) November 25, 2022
The Republican Jewish Coalition released a statement that DOES NOT NAME TRUMP.
Incredible. https://t.co/GNREHrGLZu
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) November 25, 2022
imagine if president obama had dinner with some whackadoo black activist who said “kill all the white people” and you’ll see how the press is severely underplaying trump’s dinner w nick fuentes and what that means about the modern gop.
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) November 25, 2022
Half of Breitbart’s commenters are raging at them for reporting this story. The other half are celebrating. https://t.co/jQLVPhFyRN
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