Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Donald Trump dines with an anti-Semitic Nazi sympathizer, and the media remains terrifyingly silent.
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Earlier this week, Donald Trump ate dinner. That may seem inconsequential in the grand scheme of Trump’s classified-document-stealing, insurrection-inciting misdeeds. But it was who Trump dined with that that could set the stage for a 2024 campaign steeped in even more anti-Semitic, misogynistic, authoritarian hate than ever before.
On one side of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago dinner table sat famous hip-hop artist and anti-Semitic lunatic Kanye West. On the other was West’s guest, a 24-year-old media personality, Christian nationalist and Holocaust denier named Nick Fuentes. Fuentes hasn’t yet broken through into the American mainstream — due in part to being banned from nearly every media platform he joins — but he represents the violent, antidemocratic future of the Republican Party.
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