Former President Donald Trump had dinner Tuesday at his Mar-a-Lago property with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and rapper Kanye West, a Trump adviser confirmed to CBS Information on Friday.
The previous president stated in a press release to CBS Information that he didn't know who Fuentes was, nor that he can be arriving with West, who's also referred to as Ye.
"Kanye West very a lot wished to go to Mar-a-Lago. Our dinner assembly was meant to be Kanye and me solely, however he arrived with a visitor whom I had by no means met and knew nothing about," Trump stated in a press release to CBS Information.
The information of the dinner was first reported by Axios.
Fuentes is a number one determine on the far-right, having attended the "Unite the Proper" rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and the "Cease the Steal" rally on Jan. 6. Fuentes, who has unfold antisemitic conspiracies, is taken into account a white supremacist by the Anti-Defamation League. Based on the ADL, "Fuentes 'jokingly' denied the Holocaust and in contrast Jews burnt in focus camps to cookies in an oven."
West has been embroiled in controversy for weeks since posting antisemitic remarks, having misplaced high-profile sponsorships together with Addidas, Hole and Balenciaga. He had been restricted from Twitter after his antisemitic tweets, however he posted final week that he had been unblocked.
West, who has stated he's operating for president in 2024, tweeted a video late Thursday saying he had a "debrief" with Trump, and he requested Trump to be his operating mate.
However West stated Trump "principally began screaming at me, telling me I used to be gonna lose." Trump introduced on Nov. 15 that he's operating for president in 2024.
West additionally stated he "loves Trump," however stated he advised the previous president he wanted to deliver again a few of his loyalists who the media "tried to cancel," comparable to Corey Lewandowski, and free the individuals arrested in connection to the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
"He principally offers me this is able to be 'mob-esque' kinda story, speaking to some child from the southside of Chicago, making an attempt to sound 'mobby' or no matter, and he goes into this story about all that went by means of to get Alice Johnson out of jail, and the way he did not do it for Kim and he did it for me," West stated.
In a put up on Fact Social on Friday, Trump stated Ye requested him "for recommendation regarding a few of his difficulties, specifically having to do along with his enterprise" throughout their Mar-a-Lago assembly.
"We additionally mentioned, to a lesser extent, politics, the place I advised him he ought to undoubtedly not run for President, 'any voters you will have ought to vote for TRUMP.' Anyway, we acquired alongside nice, he expressed no anti-Semitism, & I appreciated all the good issues he stated about me on 'Tucker Carlson.' Why would not I agree to satisfy? Additionally, I did not know Nick Fuentes."