Ex-GOP Rep. Says Dinner With Ye, Fuentes ‘Additional Diminishes’ Trump
- Ex-Rep. Charlie Dent on Saturday criticized Trump for eating with Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago.
- Dent instructed CNN that Republicans wanted to “stamp this sort of ingredient” from the social gathering.
- “That is merely inexcusable that he would have dinner with this famous white nationalist,” Dent mentioned.
Former GOP Rep. Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania on Saturday criticized former President Donald Trump for internet hosting white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago membership final week — stating that it was “appalling” that it occurred.
Dent, a reasonable who served within the Home from 2005 to 2018 and backed President Joe Biden over Trump within the 2020 presidential election, instructed CNN’s Jim Acosta it was “inexcusable” for Trump to have dined with Fuentes, who was introduced alongside as a visitor of Ye, the rapper previously often known as Kanye West.
Ye, who has misplaced profitable offers with Balenciaga and Adidas after he made antisemitic remarks final month, got here to the South Florida resort with Fuentes to talk with Trump after the rapper floated a 2024 presidential marketing campaign.
Trump, who was first elected to the White Home in 2016 solely to lose to Biden in 2020, not too long ago launched his 2024 presidential marketing campaign.
Dent, a former chairman of the Home Ethics Committee, was lower than impressed by Trump’s assertion, the place the previous president known as the dinner “fast and uneventful” and mentioned Ye “unexpectedly confirmed up with three of his buddies whom I knew nothing about.”
“That is merely inexcusable that he would have dinner with this famous white nationalist, antisemite Nick Fuentes, and naturally, Kanye West with all of his baggage. It’s merely appalling that this occurred,” the congressman mentioned.
“And actually, it is incumbent upon the Republican institution, what’s left of it, to stamp this sort of ingredient from inside the GOP as soon as and for all,” he continued to say. “We noticed it with William F. Buckley and lots of others again within the day, the John Birch Society, removed these radical, excessive parts. There must be a concerted effort. This entire ‘America First’ motion and the ugly historic connotations again to the Thirties has been forgotten by too a lot of our fellow residents, regrettably.”
Dent went on to blast Trump’s handlers, questioning how Fuentes was even allowed to satisfy with the previous president.
“It additionally speaks to a bigger downside for former President Trump — that there apparently are not any gatekeepers. There are not any adults. There does not appear to be any political self-discipline to talk. How a dinner like this might even occur can be horrible,” he mentioned.
“However lastly, I assume I might say this additional diminishes Donald Trump as a critical political determine. His erstwhile presidential major opponents ought to be fairly completely satisfied about this occasion as a result of it is going to merely elevate them and damage Trump, and Trump is diminishing. However he is nonetheless a harmful determine,” he added.