Former vice president Mike Pence and numerous Republican lawmakers criticized Donald Trump for dining with the white nationalist Nick Fuentes and the rapper Ye, marking a rare break with Trump in the upper echelons of the GOP.
with NewsNation, “President Trump was wrong to give a white nationalist, an antisemite and a Holocaust denier a seat at the table. I think he should apologize for it, and he should denounce those individuals and their hateful rhetoric without qualification.”
Monday’s unusual deluge of criticism from Senate Republicans came five days after Trump’s dinner at Mar-a-Lago and nearly three weeks after Republicans earned a modest House majority but failed to take back the Senate in the midterm elections, sparking a widespread debate about whether and how the party should move away from Trump’s influence.
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, recently lost billions of dollars of net worth after businesses cut ties with him for repeatedly making antisemitic remarks. Fuentes has espoused racist and antisemitic views, endorsed segregation, attacked immigrants and made light of the Holocaust. He has been labeled a white supremacist leader by the Anti-Defamation League, which he denies.
Meanwhile, several Republican senators placed blame on unnamed Trump staff instead of the former president. Asked whether Trump should condemn his dinner guests, however, Scott said, “I think Republicans should all condemn white supremacy and antisemitism.” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham said he didn’t think anyone should “give oxygen to people like that” but said he would still support Trump.
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