The Corner
Brian Kemp on Trump-West-Fuentes Dinner: Racism and Antisemitism ‘Completely Un-American’
In an interview with the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, Georgia GOP governor Brian Kemp weighs in on the news that former president Donald Trump had dinner at Mar-a-Lago just before Thanksgiving with notorious antisemites Kanye West and Nick Fuentes:
https://twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status/1597293783607136264
Not every Trump outrage merits comment, but the case for weighing in now is quite strong. “When an ex-president sups with antisemites, and notorious ones, does it aid the normalization of antisemitism? I think it does,” Jay Nordlinger writes on the homepage. “What presidents do matters, and what ex-presidents do matters. They are leaders. They are in the public eye. They set tones, for better or worse.”
Trump claims he didn’t know who Fuentes was, but Kanye West has spent two months making antisemitic outbursts in public, and at this point inviting West to dinner is no better than inviting Louis Farrakhan to dinner.
Fuentes is a Holocaust denier who has praised segregation.
His virulent anti-semitism is about the only thing he’s known for. YAF severed ties with Michelle Malkin over her support of Fuentes in 2019. https://t.co/FEnaTyvHnu https://t.co/TqXzuyVgiE pic.twitter.com/4gr5fZAWyK
— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) November 25, 2022