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Former President Trump has been catching flack from all directions for a recently publicized meeting with white supremacist Nick Fuentes claiming he didn’t know who he was. The meeting has been denounced even by the likes of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and even House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. McConnell said on Tuesday “There is no room in the Republican Party for antisemitism or white supremacy. And anyone meeting with people advocating that point of view, in my judgment, are highly unlikely to ever be elected president of the United States.” But the meeting, which took place with Kanye West as well is now somehow seeing Right wing troll Milo Yiannopoulos taking credit for orchestrating the whole thing telling NBC he did so to “make Trump’s life miserable.”
So just why would a once Trump supporter try to embarrass him by setting him up with a meeting to meet with a white supremacist? Well before getting into that, one has to acknowledge that the notion you can end up in a meeting as both an executive and a former President and not know their background or not approve of them being there is completely absurd. That just doesn’t happen and if it does, that shows that you’re a bad politician and executive because you should be having people vetted coming to you. As for why Yiannopoulos did it, he said he was trying to “send a message” to the former president knowing that news of the meeting would spread like wildfire.
“I wanted to show Trump the kind of talent that he’s missing out on by allowing his terrible handlers to dictate who he can and can’t hang out with,” Yiannopoulos said. “I also wanted to send a message to Trump that he has systematically repeatedly neglected, ignored, abused the people who love him the most, the people who put him in office, and that kind of behavior comes back to bite you in the end.” Fuentes himself has denied Yiannopoulos’ claim on Telegram saying, “This is just not true at all. My intention was not to hurt Trump by attending the dinner, that is fake news. I love Donald Trump.”
And as for West’s role in it all, he was too busy arguing with Trump who apparently wanted to make it clear that he stood no chance running for president in 2024. “Trump started basically screaming at me at the table telling me I was going to lose,” Ye said in a since deleted video. “I mean, has that ever worked for anyone in history? I’m like, ‘Woah, woah hold on hold on Trump, you’re talking to Ye.’”
In the end, if Yiannopoulos can derail a presidential campaign by setting him up with a white supremacist and he’s dumb enough to let it happen, he deserves whatever the fall out is because plenty of other people would never be in such a predicament. He’s in his 70’s. Trump is not a child.
