White House blasts Trump for meeting with white supremacist

White Home Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates mentioned bigotry, hate, and anti-Semitism don’t have any place in the US.

The White Home has condemned former President Donald Trump for assembly at his Florida property with a distinguished white supremacist and rapper Kanye West, who’s embroiled in a storm over anti-Jewish remarks.

Trump acknowledged having dinner with West, who legally modified his title to Ye, on Tuesday night time at Mar-a-Lago and mentioned he introduced alongside buddies, one in all whom was Nick Fuentes, an outspoken anti-Semite and racist.

“I didn’t know Nick Fuentes,” Trump posted on his Fact Social account late Friday.

White Home Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates condemned Trump’s assembly with Fuentes.

“Bigotry, hate, and anti-Semitism have completely no place in America – together with at Mar-a-Lago. Holocaust denial is repugnant and harmful, and it should be forcefully condemned,” Bates instructed CNN on Saturday.

President Joe Biden, who’s spending the vacation weekend in Nantucket, dodged a query about Trump’s dinner by saying: “You don’t wanna hear what I feel.”

Fuentes is a Holocaust denier whose YouTube channel was completely suspended in early 2020 for violating the platform’s hate speech coverage.

Trump introduced his plans in mid-November to hunt reelection in 2024, and his embrace of a white nationalist unsettled a few of his onetime administration officers.

David Friedman, who was Trump’s former ambassador to Israel, blasted the dinner at Mar-a-Lago.

“Even a social go to from an anti-Semite like Kanye West and human scum like Nick Fuentes is unacceptable,” Friedman mentioned in one in all a number of tweets.

“Anti-Semites deserve no quarter amongst American leaders, proper or left,” he mentioned.

Axios, a information web site, cited what it mentioned was a supply accustomed to the dinner as saying Trump “appeared very taken” with Fuentes, though he didn’t appear to know something about his background.

Ye has misplaced main model partnerships with the German sportswear firm Adidas and US retailer Hole over latest anti-Jewish statements and associations with hardliners.