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#The GOP must ditch anti-Semite embracer Trump — or lose 2024

“The GOP must ditch anti-Semite embracer Trump — or lose 2024”

I’m often asked to name my dream dinner party guest list, and that’s a relatively easy question.

I’d have Elon Musk, Tiger Woods, Ricky Gervais, Sharon Osbourne, Pope Francis, Beyoncé, Howard Stern, Malala Yousafzai, Cristiano Ronaldo and Dame Joan Collins.

The perfect mix of brains, talent, humor, courage, faith and glamour.

A harder question would be my dinner party guest list from hell.

But it would probably include former President Donald Trump and Kanye “Ye” West, if only because they’d never stop talking over other guests and would constantly offend everyone by saying deliberately crass, inflammatory things.

And it would most definitely include Nick Fuentes, a repellent, hateful, anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying, racist, misogynist, homophobic white supremacist and self-identified incel who praises Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Putin, supports the Taliban, advocates assaulting women who “get out of line,” says the civil rights movement was a mistake, and who, just two days before the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol, publicly suggested killing legislators who were unwilling to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

He also called the deadly attack on democracy “awesome” and “refreshing.”

Fuentes is a notorious individual who revels in his headline-grabbing notoriety, and if you move in any type of political/media circles, you’d have to be sitting in a gigantic crater on the moon not to be aware of him and his disgusting views, which have caused him to be banned from most social media platforms, and payment processors like PayPal, and gotten him placed on a federal no-fly list.

Yet last Tuesday night, Trump hosted a pre-Thanksgiving dinner at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach for Fuentes — and West.

It was bad enough that he invited West after all the controversy over the rapper’s repeated anti-Semitic outbursts in recent weeks.

Donald Trump and Kanye West pose for a picture in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016.
Donald Trump and Kanye West in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Dec. 13, 2016.
AP Photo/Seth Wenig

For a former US president who claims to be “Israel’s best friend,” and who earlier this month accepted an award from America’s oldest pro-Zionist organization for his “achievements on behalf of Israel and world Jewry,” to be cozying up to a man who said he was going “Death con 3 on Jewish People” is shockingly tone-deaf.

But for Trump to also be chowing down on turkey and apple pie with one of the world’s most despicable anti-Semites, someone who compared Jews burned in concentration camps to cookies in an oven, is beyond shameful.

The Zionist Organization of America that presented him with its highest award, the Theodor Herzl Medallion, issued a statement saying, “ZOA deplores the fact that President Trump had a friendly dinner with such vile antisemites. His dining with Jew-haters helps legitimize and mainstream antisemitism and must be condemned by everyone.”

Nick Fuentes, far-right activist, holds a rally at the Lansing Capitol, in Lansing, Mich., Nov. 11, 2020.
Former President Donald Trump had dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes.
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It was so bad, it even horrified Republicans.

“This is just awful, unacceptable conduct from anyone, but most particularly from a former President and current candidate,” tweeted another potential 2024 Republican candidate, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

Yes, it is.

And what made it even worse, as is so often the case with Trump, was his pathetic attempt to pretend he had no idea who Fuentes is.

“Kanye West very much wanted to visit Mar-a-Lago,” he said in one of various statements he’s put out desperately trying to protect himself from the mounting outrage over the meal. “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.”

Donald Trump hugs rapper Kanye West during a meeting in the Oval office of the White House on October 11, 2018 in Washington, DC.
Donald Trump hugs Kanye West during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on October 11, 2018, in Washington, DC.
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Oh, please.

Trump is guarded by a large Secret Service detail at Mar-a-Lago.

And I know how thorough they are about anyone who visits him, because in April this year, I interviewed Trump there and my whole crew was subjected to detailed checks before they arrived.

The agents will have quickly worked out exactly who Fuentes is, and his background, and briefed Trump.

It’s literally one Google search.

Nick Fuentes, host of America First, is seen at a 'Stop the Steal' protest outside of the Georgia state capitol
'Stop the Steal' protest, Atlanta, USA - 18 Nov 2020
Nick Fuentes is a notorious individual who revels in his headline-grabbing notoriety.
Nathan Posner/Shutterstock

Just as Trump knows full well that West has been spewing horrible anti-Semitic claptrap for months, costing the singer huge contracts with firms like Adidas.

Yet he still went ahead with the dinner, during which, according to Axios, which broke the story, there was a “lot of fawning back and forth.”

At one point, Trump reportedly turned to West and said of Fuentes, “I really like this guy. He gets me.”

Fuentes even boasted of being de-platformed from Gettr, the social platform launched by Trump adviser and close friend Jason Miller.

Kanye West and President-elect Donald Trump arrive to speak with the press after their meetings at Trump Tower December 13, 2016 in New York
Kanye West and Donald Trump after their meetings at Trump Tower on December 13, 2016, in New York.
TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images

When Trump asked whether it was because Fuentes was on the “fringe” of his supporter base, Fuentes replied that he was.

Even this gigantic red flag didn’t make Trump get up and leave.

West, who said Trump began “screaming” at him when he announced he too was running for president and wanted him to his running mate, posted a video after the dinner saying his host was “really impressed” with Fuentes.

Of course he was.

Kanye West heads to a meeting after heading to church wearing an American flag jacket. 27 Nov 2022
It was bad enough that Trump invited Kanye West after all the controversy over the rapper’s repeated anti-Semitic outbursts in recent weeks.
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Trump is attracted to sycophancy like a ravenous bee to a pot of honey.

He’ll ignore someone’s background, however appalling, so long as they say nice things about him.

That’s an Achilles heel for anyone.

For someone running for president, it’s a disaster.

“To my friend Donald Trump, you are better than this,” tweeted David Friedman, who served as Trump’s US ambassador to Israel.

But he’s not.

Time and again, from his “very fine people, on both sides” comment defending the Charlottesville white nationalist protesters, to him talking up vile dictators like Putin and Kim Jong Un, Trump’s shown a repeated and disturbing tendency to embrace the worst, most bigoted people in the world.

That’s why his dinner with Nick Fuentes isn’t really that shocking.

Trump enjoyed him blowing smoke up his needy backside, and that’s all he cares about.

Kanye West and President-elect Donald Trump arrive to speak with the press after their meetings at Trump Tower in New York
At one point, Trump reportedly turned to Kanye West and said of Nick Fuentes, “I really like this guy. He gets me.”
TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images

Even as he raced to distance his guilty-as-sin carcass from the scandal, he couldn’t bring himself to denounce Fuentes.

Though he did find time to denounce West as a “seriously troubled man, who just happens to be black.”

This dinner should be a massive wake-up call for those in the GOP still weirdly in thrall to a severely tarnished ex-leader who will happily sup with anti-Semitic devils if they tell him they love him.

Trump, not that we needed much of a reminder, will never change.

But the Republican Party must, and move on from him fast, or it will lose in 2024.

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