Trump hosted Holocaust denier at Mar-a-Lago estate during visit with Kanye West, a week after announcing 2024 run - CNN

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Former President Donald Trump hosted White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and rapper Kanye West astatine his Mar-a-Lago property this week, demonstrating his continued willingness to subordinate with figures who person well-publicized antisemitic views arsenic helium embarks connected different White House run.

West, who has legally changed his sanction to Ye, posted a video Thursday connected Twitter successful which helium claimed that Trump “is truly impressed with Fuentes,” who has repeatedly made antisemitic and racist comments arsenic chronicled by the Anti-Defamation League.

Fuentes, West said successful the Twitter video, “is really a loyalist” to Trump, dissimilar others who helium said abandoned the erstwhile president aft the 2020 election.

In a substance connection speech tweeted by West connected Thursday, helium and Fuentes said they some met with the erstwhile president. A root confirmed to CNN Trump’s meal with Fuentes and West, who became engulfed successful contention aft repeating antisemitic conspiracy theories and making different violative claims during an quality connected a podcast successful October.

A root acquainted with the meal said that Fuentes was a impermanent of Kanye’s and was not invited by the erstwhile president.

Trump acknowledged the meal successful a station connected Truth Social Friday stating: “This past week, Kanye West called maine to person meal astatine Mar-a-Lago. 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.”

West’s recent antisemitic remarks caused companies that helium was affiliated with – including Adidas and Balenciaga – to sever their relationships with him. He has made galore inflammatory statements implicit the years, including assertions that slavery was a “choice” and “racism is simply a dated concept.”

The Anti-Defamation League has identified Fuentes arsenic a White supremacist and helium has been banned from astir large societal media platforms for his White nationalist rhetoric. Fuentes was contiguous connected the grounds of the US Capitol connected January 6, 2021, and helium has promoted Trump’s unsubstantiated claims astir fraud successful the 2020 election. The House prime committee investigating the events of January 6 issued a subpoena to Fuentes successful January.

West tweeted precocious Tuesday nighttime that helium had kept Trump waiting during his archetypal sojourn to Mar-a-Lago owed to rainfall and traffic. And Right Wing Watch, a task of the left-leaning radical People for the American Way, posted Tuesday footage of West and Fuentes walking done the Miami airdrome together. That footage was included successful the video West posted connected Twitter.

This communicative has been updated with further information.