Republicans criticize Trump
2022.11.27 12:18
Republicans criticize Trump
Budrigannews.com – Even though Trump claimed the encounter was accidental, some Republicans criticized him on Sunday for dining with white supremacist Nick Fuentes at the former president’s Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida.
Asa Hutchinson, a Republican governor of Arkansas, said that Trump helped extremism.
According to Hutchinson’s statement to CNN, “I don’t think it’s a good idea for a leader who is setting an example for the country or the party to meet with an avowed racist or anti-Semite.”
Kentucky Republican Representative James Comer stated that Trump required “better judgment (on) who he dines with.”
Comer stated on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “I would not take a meeting with that person.”
Trump stated earlier this month that he intends to run for president again in 2024 for the Republican nomination, though he may face opposition from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
The U.S. Justice Department has called Fuentes a white supremacist, and he was at the Washington rally on January 6, 2021, before Trump supporters attacked the Capitol. The Counter Slander Association said Fuentes once “‘playfully’ denied the Holocaust and contrasted Jews consumed in death camps with treats in a broiler.'”
Trump said that Fuentes’ meeting took place during a dinner last week with rapper I, formerly known as Kanye West, who himself caused a lot of criticism in connection with anti-Semitic statements.
Trump, in his message on Truth social networks, said that he met you, and “we had a great conversation, he was not anti-Semitic, and appreciated all the nice things he said about me in Carlson’s Tucker.
“Why wouldn’t I agree to a meeting? Besides, I didn’t know Nick Fuentes,” Trump wrote.
The White House reacted to Trump’s words that “bigotry, hatred, anti-Semitism absolutely does not exist in America, including Mar-A-Lago.”
President Joe Biden responded to a question from reporters about the incident, saying, “You don’t want to hear about what I was thinking.”
In Israel, Trump’s former envoy David Friedman said that “anti-Semites do not deserve respect among the leaders of the United States, right and left.”
“For your friend Donald Trump, you are better. Even secular visits by anti-Semitism like Kanye West or a human child like Nick Frank are unacceptable,” Friedman said on Twitter.
