“This past week, Kanye West called maine to person meal astatine Mar-a-Lago,” helium wrote. “Shortly thereafter, helium unexpectedly showed up with 3 of his friends, whom I knew thing about. We had meal connected Tuesday evening with galore members contiguous connected the backmost patio. The meal was speedy and uneventful. They past near for the airport.”
However eventful, the meal reflects a singular infinitesimal successful an highly aboriginal 2024 run cycle: the frontrunner for the Republican statesmanlike information breaking breadstuff with a antheral who often posts racist contented and Holocaust revisionism, brought determination by a rapper who is launching his ain statesmanlike run nether the shadiness of his ain antisemitic remarks.
“If it was immoderate different party, breaking breadstuff with Nick Fuentes would beryllium instantly disqualifying for Trump,” said Democratic National Committee spokesperson Ammar Moussa. “The astir utmost views person recovered a location successful today’s MAGA Republican party.”
It underscores however fewer guardrails presently beryllium wrong the erstwhile president’s governmental operation, with fewer aides determination to surface guests oregon counsel against and negociate specified gatherings.
Indeed, aft POLITICO archetypal reported the sighting of Fuentes astatine Trump’s club, radical successful Trump’s orbit denied the erstwhile president met with Fuentes astatine all. Only aboriginal was it revealed that helium not lone met with Fuentes but dined with him.
Karen Giorno, a erstwhile Trump strategist who is besides present moving for West’s 2024 campaign, confirmed to POLITICO that she was besides astatine the meal with Trump, West and Fuentes.
Fuentes, who was contiguous astatine the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally successful 2017, has made a bid of violative and racist statements connected his shows including that Trump was incorrect to disavow achromatic supremacy. He has been removed from YouTube and different societal media sites. Trump’s meal with Fuentes comes conscionable 1 week aft the erstwhile president announced helium is seeking reelection, and soon aft West publically made a bid of antisemitic comments that outgo him millions successful endorsement deals.
In a abstracted statement, Trump denied knowing who Fuentes was, stating that the “dinner gathering was intended to beryllium Kanye and maine only, but helium arrived with a impermanent whom I had ne'er met and knew thing about.” Both that connection and the Truth Social station did not see a denunciation of West’s oregon Fuentes’ caller comments.
West discussed the meal successful a video titled “Mar-a-lago debrief,” which helium posted to Twitter. In it, helium said that Trump was “impressed by Fuentes” due to the fact that “unlike truthful galore of the lawyers and truthful galore radical that helium was near with connected his 2020 campaign, he’s really a loyalist.”
West went connected to accidental helium told Trump, “Why erstwhile you had the chance, did you not escaped the January sixers? And I came to him arsenic idiosyncratic who loves Trump. And I said, ‘Go and get Cory [Lewandowski] back, spell and get these radical that the media tried to cancel and told you to measurement distant from.’” The video includes photos of erstwhile advisers including Giorno and Roger Stone, and besides conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Describing the lawsuit to Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right provocateur who helium hired to assistance with his campaign, West said that helium besides asked Trump to beryllium his moving mate successful 2024, and said that Trump was “screaming” astatine him during the dinner, and that the erstwhile president called his ex-wife profanities.
“When Trump started fundamentally screaming astatine maine astatine the table, telling maine I was going to lose. I mean, has that ever worked for anyone successful history? I’m like, whoa, whoa, clasp on, clasp connected Trump, you’re talking to Ye,” West said.
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