Republican leaders in the US Congress strongly criticized Donald Trump’s meeting with a white supremacist at his Florida residence on Tuesday, saying the ideas espoused by the latter, Nick Fuentes, were completely alien to his party.
Criticism of Republican leaders in Congress
The leader of the Republicans in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, who had not spoken publicly on the issue since this meeting a week ago, was peppered with questions by reporters at the end of a meeting with Democratic President Joe Biden in the White House. .
“I don’t think anyone should spend time with Nick Fuentes,” said Kevin McCarthy, who is expected to become speaker of the lower house of Congress in January after a Republican election victory in early November. “His views of him are not found anywhere in the Republican Party or in this country.”
His Senate counterpart, Mitch McConnell, also said that white supremacism and anti-Semitism have no place in the Republican Party, adding that anyone who associates with people who hold such views cannot
I’ll probably never be president.
For Pence, Trump “was wrong” to meet with him
Donald Trump, who announced on November 15 that he would seek re-election as president of the United States in 2024 after losing to Joe Biden in 2020, said he was unaware of Nick Fuentes’ presence at a dinner at his residence in Mar-A beforehand. -Lake, Florida. Also present at the dinner was singer Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, who has also been accused of making anti-Semitic comments recently.
The United States Department of Justice officially labels Nick Fuentes a white supremacist. According to the Anti-Defamation League, a non-governmental organization that fights anti-Semitism in the United States, Nick Fuentes “jokingly denied the Holocaust and compared Jews cremated in concentration camps to cookies in an oven.”
Vice President of Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021, Mike Pence for his part invited the former president of the United States on Monday to apologize for this meeting with Nick Fuentes.
“President Trump was wrong to give a white nationalist, anti-Semite and Holocaust denier a seat at his table, and I think he should apologize,” Mike Pence said in a television interview with NewsNation.
Source: BFM TV
