Donald Trump underneath hearth over dinner with white supremacist

Donald Trump confronted a brand new backlash after it emerged that he dined with one in all America’s most outstanding white supremacists at his Mar-a-Lago property this week, simply days after asserting a brand new bid for the White Home in 2024.

In keeping with Axios, Trump had a meal on Tuesday with Nick Fuentes, who is understood for his excessive views, together with rapper Kanye West — who now goes by the identify Ye and who has additionally stoked controversy by making anti-Semitic feedback.

“This previous week, Kanye West known as me to have dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Shortly thereafter, he unexpectedly confirmed up with three of his associates, whom I knew nothing about. We had dinner on Tuesday night with many members current on the again patio. The dinner was fast and uneventful. They then left for the airport,” Trump wrote on his Fact Social web site on Friday.

Fuentes, 24, is one in all America’s most infamous white supremacists, who attended the pro-Trump rally that led to the assault on the US Capitol on January 6 2021. He additionally attended the “Unite the Proper” neo-Nazi parade in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. He’s the founding father of the America First Political Motion Convention, an annual gathering of white nationalist politicians and activists, together with Republican lawmakers Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

His presence for dinner at Trump’s property comes as the previous president is already dealing with criticism from throughout the Republican social gathering for making an attempt one other presidential marketing campaign, particularly after a lot of his most popular candidates misplaced to Democratic challengers within the midterm elections. Whereas Republicans have been cautious of criticising Trump instantly, many have identified that the social gathering’s management by a former president with extremist ties was damaging them politically.

After information of Trump’s dinner with Fuentes, Chris Christie, the previous Republican governor of New Jersey and a doable 2024 rival, mentioned: “That is simply one other instance of an terrible lack of judgment from Donald Trump, which, mixed together with his previous poor judgments, make him an untenable basic election candidate for the Republican social gathering in 2024.”

In a while Friday, Trump posted one other message on Fact Social saying he “didn’t know” Fuentes. He mentioned West had requested to fulfill to debate enterprise difficulties and solely politics “to a lesser extent”. “We bought alongside nice, he expressed no anti-Semitism, & I appreciated the entire good issues he mentioned about me on [the Fox TV programme] ‘Tucker Carlson’. Why wouldn’t I agree to fulfill?”