Footage emerged of rapper Kanye West with an individual appearing to be Nick Fuentes, who has been labeled as a white nationalist by the Department of Justice.
The Twitter account “Right Wing Watch” posted a video to Twitter showing West walking out of a Miami airport on November 22 with two men by his side, one of whom was purportedly Fuentes.
On his way to meet Trump at Mar-a-Lago yesterday, Kanye West was filmed walking through Miami's airport with misogynistic antisemitic white nationalist Christian fascist incel Nick Fuentes. https://t.co/903Sa56Jb5 pic.twitter.com/Jn3bKtt9JE
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) November 23, 2022
Politico reporter Meredith McGraw tweeted that a source told her that West and Fuentes were meeting with former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago; New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted that West and Fuentes both had dinner with Trump. Trump said in a statement to Axios that “our dinner meeting was intended to be Kanye and me only, but he arrived with a guest whom I had never met and knew nothing about.”
According to a source, far-right extremist Nick Fuentes was spotted with Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago. West tweeted last night he met with Trump at the club. West and Fuentes were also seen together at Miami airport.
— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) November 23, 2022
Despite some apparent denials from someone around Trump, Fuentes — who has denounced Jews among other groups — was indeed at dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, people have confirmed to NYT https://t.co/aQUWS0KdsR
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 25, 2022
NEW: Statement from fmr President Trump in response to our story about his dinner w Ye and Fuentes: "Kanye West very much wanted to visit Mar-a-Lago. Our dinner meeting was intended to be Kanye and me only, but he arrived with a guest whom I had never met and knew nothing about." https://t.co/RLfWtJTfzQ
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) November 25, 2022
According to Canary Mission, Fuentes questioned the official figure that six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust in an October 2019 Twitter video. Fuentes compared the Nazi gas chambers to cookies in an oven, and asked if you could bake six million cookies in 15 different ovens in five years. “The math doesn’t quite seem to add up there. I don’t think you’d result in 6 million, maybe 200 to 300,000 cookies.” Fuentes later defended his remarks as a “funny joke.” In February, Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) spoke at a conference hosted by Fuentes.
“Nick Fuentes is an outright neo Nazi, with plenty of recent remarks like this one aimed at whipping up hate towards Jews,” Daily Beast reporter Will Sommer tweeted. “Now he’s being embraced by one of the biggest celebs in the country and, reportedly, Trumpworld.”
Nick Fuentes is an outright neo Nazi, with plenty of recent remarks like this one aimed at whipping up hate towards Jews. Now he’s being embraced by one of the biggest celebs in the country and, reportedly, Trumpworld. https://t.co/Ir7sPI1UbB
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 23, 2022
USA Today reporter Will Carless similarly tweeted, “For those who don’t know, Fuentes is the young leader of a far-right white nationalist movement called the ‘Groypers.’ He’s a noted anti-Semite and bigot who is (for now) banned from Twitter and other platforms. Hate likes company, I guess.”
https://twitter.com/willcarless/status/1595551299805671424?s=20&t=aUKwQcwYf9tfELFIeaQ5dQ
“Anyone who is surprised to see Kanye hanging out with Nick Fuentes doesn’t understand the Antisemitic messages of either one,” Kiryas Joel School District Superintendent Joel M. Petlin tweeted. “It’s shameful that Antisemitism has become Kanye’s new brand, just as it has always been Nick’s brand.”
Anyone who is surprised to see Kanye hanging out with Nick Fuentes doesn't understand the Antisemitic messages of either one.
It's shameful that Antisemitism has become Kanye's new brand, just as it has always been Nick's brand. https://t.co/tc7IJC7ROO https://t.co/EY0haSH7MA
— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) November 23, 2022
This article has been updated.
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