In a Q&A with reporters outside the White House, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy got it wrong when he said former President Donald Trump had condemned white nationalist Nick Fuentes four times.
on Truth Social:"So I help a seriously troubled man, who just happens to be black, Ye , who has been decimated in his business and virtually everything else, and who has always been good to me, by allowing his request for a meeting at Mar-a-Lago, alone, so that I can give him very much needed ‘advice.’ He shows up with 3 people, two of which I didn’t know, the other a political person who I haven’t seen in years. I told him don’t run for office, a total waste of time, can’t win.
To sum up, Trump’s stance in each of the statements is consistent: He said he did not know Fuentes ahead of time and did not know that he was coming to the dinner with Ye. What Trump did not say in these four statements is what McCarthy suggested: that he condemned Fuentes.was published at 5:50 p.m. Nov, 29, the same day McCarthy had spoken around noon.
In the statement to Fox News, Trump said of Fuentes,"I had never heard of the man — I had no idea what his views were, and they weren’t expressed at the table in our very quick dinner, or it wouldn't have been accepted." Reasonable people can disagree about whether this qualifies as a condemnation of Fuentes, but in any case, it did not become public knowledge until after McCarthy made his comments to reporters.Trump made at least four statements during the previous week in which he addressed his controversial dinner with Ye and Fuentes. However, his references to Fuentes were in passing, mainly to say he had not known who he was. In none of the four statements did he condemn Fuentes.
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