Trump hosts white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago

Posted By TheNewsCommenter: From Washingtontimes.com: “Trump hosts white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago”. Below is an excerpt from the article.

Former President Donald Trump is claiming he didn’t know that white nationalist Nick Fuentes was among several people, along with rapper Ye, whom he hosted for an intimate dinner at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida this week. 

In a statement on Truth Social, Mr. Trump acknowledged that Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, invited three other associates after requesting to have dinner with the former president at his Palm Beach, Florida. But he stopped short of naming Mr. Fuentes, in an apparent attempt to distance himself from the firebrand who has been labeled by the Anti-Defamation League as a white nationalist.

“This past week, Kanye West called me to have dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Shortly thereafter, he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends, whom I knew nothing about,” Mr. Trump wrote. “We had dinner on Tuesday evening with many members present on the back patio. The dinner was quick and uneventful. They then left for the airport.”

The additional guests, who were arranged by far-right commentator Milo Yiannopolous, included Mr. Trump’s former Florida chief strategist Karen Giorno, according to details of the event reported by Timcast.com.

Ye, whose clothing and footwear lines were recently dropped several brands after the Trump ally made a series of antisemitic remarks, posted a “Mar-a-Lago Debrief” to his recently restored Twitter account on Thursday in which he claimed that Mr. Trump is “really impressed with Nick Fuentes.”

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