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Donald Trump: Party friends criticize former US President after receiving well

2022-11-27T20:08:47.948Z


Donald Trump welcomed rapper Kanye West and Nick Fuentes, a prominent racist, to his Mar-a-Lago estate. Some Republicans are now reprimanding him for this. The ex-president denies the allegations.


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Former US President Donald Trump has faced criticism from his own ranks for hosting racist Nick Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

"I don't think it's a good idea for a leader who wants to set an example for the country or the party to meet with a self-confessed racist or anti-Semite," Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson told the broadcaster CNN.

Influential Republican House Representative James Comer told NBC that Trump needed better judgment about who he was having dinner with.

Trump wants to run again for the Republicans in the 2024 presidential election.

The US Department of Justice describes Fuentes as someone who thinks white people are superior to other people.

He had attended the January 6, 2021 rally of Trump supporters that preceded the storming of the Capitol.

The civil rights group Anti-Defamation League said Fuentes ridiculed the Holocaust.

Trump said on his social platform Truth Social that he met Fuentes at a reception last week that was also attended by rapper Kanye West.

West has also been criticized for anti-Semitic statements.

Trump said he got along well with Kanye West.

He said he wasn't anti-Semitic and said nice things about him on the Tucker Carlson TV show.

'Why shouldn't I agree to a meeting?

Also, I didn't know Nick Fuentes," Trump wrote.

Former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman tweeted: "To my friend Donald Trump, you are better than that. Also, getting to know an anti-Semite like Kanye West and human scum like Nick Fuentes is unacceptable."

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Source: spiegel

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