Donald Trump introduced his plans in mid-November to hunt reelection in 2024.
Washington:
The White House on Saturday condemned former president Donald Trump for assembly at his Florida property with a famend white supremacist and with rapper Kanye West who’s embroiled in a storm over anti-Semitic remarks.
Trump acknowledged having dinner with West, who now is named Ye, on Tuesday night time at Mar-a-Lago, and mentioned he introduced alongside pals, certainly one of whom was Nick Fuentes, an outspoken anti-Semite and racist.
“I didn’t know Nick Fuentes,” Trump posted on his Truth Social account late Friday.
White House deputy press secretary Andrews Bates condemned Trump’s assembly with Fuentes.
“Bigotry, hate, and anti-Semitism have absolutely no place in America — including at Mar-a-Lago. Holocaust denial is repugnant and dangerous, and it must be forcefully condemned,” Bates advised CNN.
President Joe Biden, who’s spending the vacation weekend in Nantucket, ducked a query about Trump’s dinner: “You don’t wanna hear what I think.”
Fuentes is a Holocaust denier whose YouTube channel was completely suspended in early 2020 for violating the platform’s hate speech coverage.
Trump introduced his plans in mid-November to hunt reelection in 2024, and his embrace of a white nationalist unsettled a few of his onetime administration officers.
David Friedman, who was Trump’s former ambassador to Israel, blasted the dinner at Mar-a-Lago.
“Even a social visit from an antisemite like Kanye West and human scum like Nick Fuentes is unacceptable,” Friedman mentioned in certainly one of a number of tweets.
“Antisemites deserve no quarter among American leaders, right or left,” he mentioned.
Axios, a information web site, cited what it mentioned was a supply conversant in the dinner who mentioned Trump “seemed very taken” with Fuentes though he did not appear to know something about his background.
West, who’s now recognized legally as Ye, has misplaced main model partnerships with the German sportwear firm Adidas and US retailer Gap over current anti-Semitic statements and associations with extremists.
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