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Kanye West is leaning into the antisemitism—bringing white nationalist Nicholas Fuentes onto his casual 2024 presidential marketing campaign, the place he joins far-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos.
The team-up comes simply days after Ye, as he's identified to his followers, introduced Fuentes to dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, sparking an uproar and main Trump to say he didn't know who Fuentes was.
West and Fuentes have been noticed collectively at a Miami airport final week. Then, on Saturday night, Fuentes positioned his nightly internet present on hiatus and introduced he's working with West, who has been ostracized by a lot of the mainstream since he went on a sequence of antisemitic rants.
“My final tremendous chat ever as a result of the following money I ship might be your paycheck,” Yiannopoulos mentioned in a web-based message to Fuentes, who learn it aloud through the present. “And see you on the workplace on Monday, brother!”
“I've been talking with Ye and dealing with him,” Fuentes added.
However it looks like Fuentes might have already irritated his new boss. On Sunday night, West blamed Fuentes for a tweet that took purpose at conservative Jewish commentator Ben Shapiro for his publication, Every day Wire, renting e mail lists to the marketing campaign of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
“If Nick retains tweeting from my account the one platform I’ll have left is Reality Social,” West mentioned of Fuentes, who's a longtime foe of Shapiro.
Fuentes didn’t return The Every day Beast’s request for remark, and Yiannopoulos supplied a sequence of nonsensical questions. West—who ran a haphazard 2020 presidential marketing campaign that blew by $6 million and solely earned him 60,000 votes—couldn't be reached for remark.
Fuentes is a longtime fixture of probably the most excessive far-right and the face of the racist groypers. On the day of the lethal Unite the Proper rally, he wrote on Fb that “a tidal wave of white id is coming.” Typically cloaking his views in what he thinks passes for comedy, he's a Holocaust denier who as soon as used a cookie-baking metaphor to explain the extermination of Jewish individuals and has urged Hitler wasn’t so dangerous.
Yiannapoulos—a former congressional intern for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and editor on the right-wing information website Breitbart—has repeatedly spewed racism and verbally attacked LGBTQ individuals whereas insisting he had turned himself into an “ex-gay.”
In recent times, he’s run afoul of the far-right after threatening to kill the canine of fellow right-wing activists over unpaid money owed. He as soon as trolled a Jewish journalist on-line with neo-Nazi symbolism and appeared on stage with white supremacist Richard Spencer whereas the latter was making a Nazi salute.