Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)

Trump hosted rapper Ye, Holocaust denier at Mar-a-lago

- By Brian Niemietz

Holocaust skeptic Nick Fuentes joined Donald Trump and the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, during a dinner conversati­on at the former president’s Mar-a-lago estate.

It was during that meeting Tuesday Ye claimed he asked Trump to be his running mate in the 2024 presidenti­al election in which both right-wing media personalit­ies are candidates. Trump declined, according to Ye.

Trump confirmed in a statement posted to his social media platform that Fuentes, 24, came as one of Ye’s guests. He claimed to be expecting only Ye.

“(Ye) unexpected­ly showed up with three of his friends, whom I knew nothing about,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Also attending the dinner meeting was Newsmax contributo­r and former Trump campaign adviser Karen Giorno, according to Politico.

Trump hosted Ye in the White House while serving as president in 2018. During that visit, Ye rambled about being misdiagnos­ed for a mental disorder and informed the former president Superman is his “favorite superhero.”

It’s not clear what role Fuentes would play in Ye’s long-shot run for the presidency.

Ye said on social media that Trump was “really impressed” by Fuentes, who last week on his webstreami­ng program suggested sending the military into Black neighborho­ods because “They’re never going to vote for us.”

The Anti Defamation League describes Fuentes as a “prominent white supremacis­t pundit and organizer.”

Fuentes claims he left college because of threats resulting from his marching alongside white supremacis­ts at 2017’s deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottes­ville, Virginia.

Ye formally announced his bid for the presidency on Sunday with a video where he said former Marjorie Taylor Greene assistant Milo Yiannopoul­os was helping run his campaign. Yiannopolo­us was filmed singing karaoke with neo-nazis and white nationalis­ts in a Virginia bar following the 2017 rally.

Ye was slammed after a string of anti-semitic remarks in October when he tweeted his intentions to go “Death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.”

Companies including Adidas soon after pledged to stop doing business with the rapper.

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