Trump tried to claim after the meeting with Ye and Nick Fuentes that he “didn’t know” who Nick Fuentes was and has refused to denounce his antisemitic views and Holocaust denial.
After news of the meeting was made public, the former president claimedthat the gathering was a response to Ye’s request for “advice concerning some of his difficulties.”
“We also discussed, to a lesser extent, politics, where I told him he should definitely not run for President,” Trump said, adding that the conversation was “great” and that Ye “expressed no anti-Semitism.” “Also, I didn’t know Nick Fuentes,” Trump said. This is a questionable claim, as Fuentes has previouslyOn Sunday, Trump called Ye a “seriously troubled man” and claimed that the rapper had brought unexpected guests to Mar-a-Lago, including Fuentes. Trump also faulted the “fake news” media for reporting on the meeting., the former president has refused to condemn Fuentes’s white supremacist views.
“Even with his ignorance of Fuentes taken at face value, the statements signal Trump will give extraordinary deference to the most fringe elements of his base,” wrote
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