President Joe Biden’s White House chastised Donald Trump for inviting two well-known anti-Semitists to Mar-a-Lago for a dinner. In spite of Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and the previous president’s grandchildren being Jewish, the former POTUS invited rapper Kanye West now known as “Ye” and racist white supremacist Nick Fuentes to the “winter White House.”
President Biden’s Deputy Press Secretary Andrews Bates spoke out harshly against Trump:
‘Bigotry, hate, and anti-Semitism have absolutely no place in America — including at Mar-a-Lago. Holocaust denial is repugnant and dangerous, and it must be forcefully condemned.’
When the sitting president was asked about the dinner at his holiday getaway, Nantucket, 46 said:
‘You don’t wanna hear what I think.’
After being caught, Trump denied knowing who Fuentes was. This has been a common tactic the former president has often used. He did not know who the homegrown terrorists, the Proud Boys were. He did not know who the Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was.
Now, even though the previous White House resident denied being aware of Fuentes’ pedigree, the ex-president was reportedly quite taken with the man. Trump wrote on his Twitter knockoff Truth Social, according to CNN:
‘I didn’t know Nick Fuentes.’
It was not clear why 45 would invite two such extreme guests, even a Holocaust denier, into his home after just announcing his 2024 campaign for president.
The ex-president’s Ambassador to Israel David Friedman came down hard on the dinner:
‘Even a social visit from an antisemite like Kanye West and human scum like Nick Fuentes is unacceptable. Antisemites deserve no quarter among American leaders, right or left.’
Trump repeated later Friday that he “didn’t know” Fuentes and had offered West business as well as political advice.
“I told him he should definitely not run for President, “any voters you may have should vote for TRUMP. Anyway, we got along great, he expressed no anti-Semitism, & I appreciated all of the nice things hesaid about me on “Tucker Carlson.”‘
The Times of Israel wrote:
‘Fuentes has questioned the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust and asserts that Israel has a malicious influence on US policy. His YouTube channel was permanently suspended in early 2020 for violating the platform’s hate speech policy. He attended the racist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and the Stop the Steal rally on January 6 that led to an insurrection at the Capitol.’
Ye has been hit in the wallet since his antisemite views have become known. The rapper lost his brand partnerships with the German company Adidas and the US company Gap.
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