White House blasts Trump for meeting with white supremacist

White Home Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates stated bigotry, hate, and anti-Semitism don't have any place in the US.

Former President Donald Trump stands on stage after asserting a 3rd run for president as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Seaside, Florida, on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 [Andrew Harnik/AP Photo]

The White Home has condemned former President Donald Trump for assembly at his Florida property with a outstanding white supremacist and rapper Kanye West, who's embroiled in a storm over anti-Jewish remarks.

Trump acknowledged having dinner with West, who legally modified his identify to Ye, on Tuesday evening at Mar-a-Lago and stated he introduced alongside associates, certainly one of whom was Nick Fuentes, an outspoken anti-Semite and racist.

“I didn’t know Nick Fuentes,” Trump posted on his Reality Social account late Friday.

White Home Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates condemned Trump’s assembly with Fuentes.

“Bigotry, hate, and anti-Semitism have completely no place in America – together with at Mar-a-Lago. Holocaust denial is repugnant and harmful, and it should be forcefully condemned,” Bates advised CNN on Saturday.

President Joe Biden, who's spending the vacation weekend in Nantucket, dodged a query about Trump’s dinner by saying: “You don’t wanna hear what I believe.”

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 go to from an anti-Semite like Kanye West and human scum like Nick Fuentes is unacceptable,” Friedman stated in certainly one of a number of tweets.

“Anti-Semites deserve no quarter amongst American leaders, proper or left,” he stated.

Axios, a information web site, cited what it stated was a supply conversant in the dinner as saying Trump “appeared very taken” with Fuentes, although he didn’t appear to know something about his background.

Ye has misplaced main model partnerships with the German sportswear firm Adidas and US retailer Hole over current anti-Jewish statements and associations with hardliners.