2024 ELECTION/ANTISEMITISM/GOP/RELIGION: “Just two days before Thanksgiving, Donald Trump was planning to have a private, uneventful dinner with an old friend: Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West…
Ye arrived with three guests, including white nationalist and antisemite Nick Fuentes.
Trump has since said he didn’t know Fuentes or his background when they dined together, a claim Fuentes confirmed in an interview, but others at the crowded members-only club figured out his identity. News of the meeting prompted an avalanche of criticism, from some Republican rivals and allies of Trump and his then-week-old presidential campaign…
The uproar underscores long-standing issues with Trump as Republicans consider whether they want him back as president again in 2024.”
-Marc Caputo, “The inside story of Trump’s explosive dinner with Ye and Nick Fuentes,” nbcnews.com, November 29, 2022