Kanye West announces 2024 presidential bid amid far-right ties - The Guardian

The disgraced rapper and decorator formerly known arsenic Kanye West has said helium plans to tally for president successful 2024, which would marque him the 2nd declared campaigner aft Donald Trump.

The declaration follows a bid of scandals and far-right associations for the 45-year-old star, who present goes by Ye. The time before, the sportswear elephantine Adidas announced it was launching an probe into allegations helium harassed erstwhile employees. Rolling Stone mag reported claims by Adidas employees moving connected the rapper’s Yeezy footwear enactment that helium utilized “porn, bullying and caput games” to make a “toxic environment” astatine the company.

That revelation itself followed respective manner brands, including Adidas, Gap and Balenciaga, dropping the 45-year-old prima implicit antisemitic comments helium made online.

He has besides been dropped by his endowment agent, lawyers and grounds company. Ye later said helium had mislaid “$2bn successful 1 day”.

The statesmanlike tally is his second. During his first, successful 2020, helium qualified for ballot entree successful conscionable 12 states, unsuccessfully sued for entree to 5 more, gave up connected 4 and missed registration deadlines connected a further 29.

He held one highly affectional rally successful South Carolina successful which helium spoke of his anti-abortion views, funded 2 tv ads and yet picked up conscionable 70,000 votes crossed the full US.

Ye’s announcement of a 2nd tally for the White House was made with a video of his run logo to societal media captioned “Ye24”. In it, helium claimed to person asked Donald Trump to beryllium his moving mate, a proposition that had “most perturbed” the erstwhile president.

“The happening that Trump was astir perturbed astir [is] maine asking him to beryllium my vice-president,” Kanye said successful a video posted connected his precocious unlocked Twitter account. “I deliberation that was, like, little connected the database of things that caught him off-guard.”

“It was the information that I walked successful with intelligence,” Ye added.

In the “Ye24” Twitter post, the rapper said he’d helium advised Trump to “go and get these radical that the media tried to cancel”, with flashes of Trump run manager Corey Lewandowski, Roger Stone and InfoWars conspiracist Alex Jones.

Several days ago, Ye was seen successful the institution of achromatic nationalist Nick Fuentes astatine Trump’s Mar-a-Lago state nine and home. In the consequent video, titled “Mar-A-Lago Debrief”, Ye said Trump “started fundamentally screaming astatine maine astatine the table, telling maine I’m going to lose. Has that ever worked for anyone successful history? I’m like, ‘Wait, clasp connected Trump, you’re talking to Ye.’”

Ye precocious told the far-right British commentator Milo Yiannopoulos that helium was “working connected the campaign”, which Yiannopoulos said helium took that to beryllium a run announcement. On Thursday, Ye indicated that helium had enlisted Yiannopoulos arsenic his 2024 run manager.