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Chris Cuomo clashed with the artist previously often called Kanye West on Monday night after the rapper made extra antisemitic feedback claiming that the “Jewish underground media mafia” has it out for him and that he doesn’t “imagine in” the time period antisemitic.
West, who now goes by the mononym Ye, made his newest weird allegations whereas calling into Cuomo’s NewsNation present from the poorly lit again seat of a automobile.
In response to Ye’s “Jewish underground media mafia” declare, Cuomo fired again: “Look, there isn't any Jewish media, cabal, mafia. That may be a figment of both your creativeness or a projection of a prejudice. You'll have had dangerous enterprise dealings with individuals—it’s about these individuals. It’s not about their faith or religion. And I do know that you just’re clever and perceive that once you goal individuals due to their religion, different individuals might accomplish that the identical.”
West responded bluntly: “And I don’t tolerate it as a Black particular person. What you simply mentioned was that you just’re attempting to say that there isn’t a collective—over 50 % of the executives and CEOs in Hollywood are Jewish. You possibly can’t inform me what to do or really feel.”
Within the wide-ranging and infrequently tense interview, Ye additionally mentioned his buy of failing social-media website Parler, claimed he didn't vote for Donald Trump, and criticized Cuomo for asking if he's caring for his well being. “Did you're employed out this morning?” West snarked on the ex-CNN host.
Talking after the interview, Cuomo known as it “rather a lot” and that whereas he's not a “hater” of Ye, the rapper’s antisemitic claims are “a troupe that should die. You possibly can have dangerous dealings with individuals however some by no means means all,” he mentioned. “After all he has the precise to say no matter he desires to say in America, however that doesn’t make no matter he says proper.”