Former President Donald Trump acknowledged Friday that he hosted white nationalist Nick Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida — however insisted he solely did so as a result of Kanye West introduced the Holocaust denier with out discover.
Fuentes, 24, attended racist demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 and in 2019 sparked outrage by saying “the maths doesn’t appear so as to add up” for the broadly cited determine of 6 million Jewish Holocaust deaths, although he later claimed he was solely attempting to be humorous.
“Kanye West very a lot wished to go to Mar-a-Lago,” the 76-year-old Trump stated in an announcement emailed to The Submit. “Our dinner assembly was meant to be Kanye and me solely, however he arrived with a visitor whom I had by no means met and knew nothing about.”
The ex-president sought to distance himself from Fuentes after West claimed in a video posted Thursday that “Trump is admittedly impressed with Nick Fuentes.”
Trump launched his third presidential marketing campaign on Nov. 15 and met with West, 45, who additionally purports to be a 2024 presidential candidate, because the rapper loses profitable enterprise relationships — and his standing as a billionaire — because of a sequence of weird anti-Jewish remarks.
West just lately knocked “Jewish enterprise individuals” and wrote he would go “demise con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.”
After eating at Mar-a-Lago, West stated he provided Trump the possibility to be his vice presidential operating mate. Trump refused and shouted that the rapper was destined to lose, West stated.
West acquired simply 70,000 votes with a long-shot 2020 marketing campaign for the presidency, which was suspected of being a sly effort to assist Trump by giving disaffected younger and black voters an choice aside from Democratic nominee Joe Biden. West missed submitting deadlines in a few of the key swing states.
Fuentes, who is also a determine of intrigue within the occasions main as much as final yr’s Capitol riot that disrupted certification of Biden’s victory, was noticed touring with West throughout his go to to see Trump.
Fuentes was completely suspended final yr from the social media community GETTR, which is run by former Trump spokesman Jason Miller, however later turned a verified person on Trump’s personal Reality Social platform.
The Israel Heritage Basis, a US-based group based within the Seventies by Holocaust survivors, stated Friday, “We… condemn & ask former President Trump to apologize, for having dinner with people who find themselves antisemitic, Jew haters & deny the holocaust!”
Fuentes’ historical past of surprising anti-Jewish remarks embrace saying this yr that “Jews stood in the best way” of the Supreme Courtroom overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade determination, which in the end occurred in June. In a video printed about 5 years in the past, Fuentes stated he “completely” was harmed by Jews in his each day life.
Trump himself confronted accusations just lately of being insensitive to Jewish People.
White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre accused Trump of being “anti-Semitic” final month when he wrote on Reality Social: “No President has finished extra for Israel than I've. Considerably surprisingly, nevertheless, our fantastic Evangelicals are way more appreciative of this than the individuals of the Jewish religion, particularly these dwelling within the U.S. These dwelling in Israel, although, are a unique story – Highest approval ranking within the World, might simply be P.M.! U.S. Jews should get their act collectively and recognize what they've in Israel – Earlier than it's too late!”
Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump transformed to Judaism to marry Jared Kushner, who turned Trump’s senior adviser within the West Wing, and the ex-president’s three grandchildren by the couple are Jewish.
As president, Trump was staunchly pro-Israel, together with recognizing the disputed Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights from Syria and transferring the US embassy to Jerusalem. Kushner-led efforts end in 5 Muslim international locations establishing diplomatic relationships with Israel.
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