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Presidential contender Kanye West’s newest marketing campaign finance report reveals that, whereas he’s personally spending cash, nobody gave a single greenback to the rapper-turned-Hitler-sympathizer all 12 months.
The submitting, which the marketing campaign submitted on Monday to itemize its bills during the last three months of 2022, additionally exhibits that Ye paid Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes greater than $9,000 for “journey reimbursement” on the identical date in November that the rapper and Fuentes dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, accompanied by right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.
Fuentes instructed The Day by day Beast on Monday afternoon that the journey bills had been “incurred on my own and the workforce once I relocated to LA in November to do work for Kanye 2020,” referencing the official title of Ye’s still-unofficial 2024 operation.
Yiannopoulos additionally seems on the submitting, receiving $40,000 for “marketing campaign wrap up companies” in mid-December, when Yeezy fired him. Milo additionally obtained about $10,000 for a “area switch” on the identical date because the Mar-a-Lago dinner. Yiannopoulos was paid at an tackle in Rome, Georgia, hometown of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), the firebrand conservative who employed him as an intern.
However regardless of racking up greater than $142,000 in bills, in addition to asserting an off-the-cuff 2024 bid studded with stars of the far proper, Ye reported receiving zero donations in all of 2022.
Ye’s downward spiral performed out within the public eye over the course of a number of weeks final fall. It began when he wore a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt to a Paris trend present, then rapidly accelerated after a rambling look on Tucker Carlson’s Fox Information present was revealed to have been edited to take away a slew of antisemitic remarks. In response to criticism, the rapper promised to go “demise con 3” on the Jews, triggering former co-workers and acquaintances to out him as a deeply entrenched antisemite and longtime fan of Adolf Hitler, which in flip price him profitable enterprise offers.
West’s November dinner with Trump, Fuentes, and Yiannopoulos at Mar-a-Lago rapidly bred its personal information cycle, after which Yeezy praised Hitler on Alex Jones’ present.
“Nicely, I see good issues about Hitler,” West instructed Jones, who tried in useless to speak the rapper again from the sting. “Each human being has worth that they dropped at the desk, particularly Hitler.”
As for West’s casual 2024 marketing campaign, Yiannopoulos was canned in December, days after the Jones interview. On the time, the far-right provocateur instructed The Day by day Beast, he and Ye got here to a “mutual conclusion” that Yiannopoulos would “step away”—a call that apparently netted Milo $40,000. The marketing campaign’s growing inner tensions solely led Ye to succeed in additional into the far-right gutter for expertise, hiring racist YouTuber “Sneako.”
As a part of the fallout, Ye additionally misplaced his new marketing campaign treasurer, changing him with skilled treasurer Patrick Krason in December. Krason’s firm noticed a virtually $40,000 windfall that month, the most recent submitting exhibits, together with funds for journey, internet companies, archival video companies, authorized charges, and $10,000 for marketing campaign and workplace provides.
Ye additionally shelled out hundreds in compliance charges to an organization referred to as GSF, which The Day by day Beast revealed final 12 months was linked to veteran Republican operatives. The corporate has obtained a whole lot of hundreds of dollars from Ye for monetary companies since he launched his 2020 bid, a marketing campaign that turned out to be secretly run by well-connected GOP elites, The Day by day Beast beforehand reported.
Whereas that marketing campaign noticed an inflow of public help, a lot of it got here from younger hype beasts trying to flip collectible merch, The Day by day Beast beforehand reported, together with “contributions” from teenagers and unknown drop-shippers working abroad. However due to transport hang-ups and fundraising laws, Ye was compelled to refund a whole lot of hundreds of dollars. His filings present a complete $230,000 in refunds this election cycle.
The Day by day Beast despatched remark requests to Yiannopoulos, Krason, and Ali Alexander—who now works for the West workforce—however none of them instantly responded.