- An ex-Obama aide reported Trump denying being aware of Nick Fuentes is his “M.O.”
- “He always tries to claim he does not affiliate with white nationalists,” Alaina Beverly told MSNBC.
- Her remarks occur just after Trump’s meetup with Fuentes and Ye in Florida previous 7 days.
A former White Home aide to President Obama reported President Trump denying that he is aware of Nick Fuentes right after their modern meet up with-up in Florida is his standard type.
“He usually attempts to declare he does not associate with white nationalists, that he does not know them. But he’ll wink & nod in the exact same breath & say ‘Proud boys, stand back again & stand by,” Alaina Beverly reported in the course of an visual appeal on MSNBC’s “The Katie Phang Exhibit,” referring to when Trump name-dropped the far-right group in the course of a presidential discussion in 2020.
Beverly’s comments come following Trump hosted fallen rap mogul Kanye “Ye” West, who asked the former president to be his managing mate in 2024, and Fuentes, a Holocaust denier, at his Mar-a-Lago resort last week. Fuentes is notoriously recognized for participating in the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Ideal” rally and has been labeled a “white supremacist” by authorities and the Anti-Defamation League, Insider claimed.
—The Katie Phang Exhibit (@katiephangshow) November 26, 2022
In a assertion to Axios, Trump stated that Ye “arrived with a guest whom I had under no circumstances fulfilled and understood very little about,” though the outlet mentioned that a source mentioned he took a liking to Fuentes. The stop by still left Trump’s advisers to scramble and check out to get forward of the fallout, contacting it “a fucking nightmare.”
“This is a man who employs the protection of ignorance all the time but continues to additional the sorts of violence, the styles of detest crimes, the types of white supremacy that served continue to keep him in the general public eye and aid to protected him in business,” Beverly instructed MSNBC.