Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican Leader, criticised former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, for meeting with white supremacist Nick Fuentes last week, opening his weekly press conference by condemning not only “antisemitism” and “white supremacy,” but also saying that the ex-president’s association with the ideologies could prevent him from winning a second time in the presidential race in 2024.
“There is no room in the Republican Party for antisemitism or white supremacy,” McConnell said, adding. “And anyone meeting with people advocating that point of view, in my judgment, are highly unlikely to ever be elected president of the United States.”
When asked if he would support former president Trump if he won the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, the Senate Minority leader reiterated his statement, saying there’s no room in the GOP for anti-Semitism or white supremacy.
“And that would apply to all of the leaders in the party who will be seeking offices,” he added.
Former president Trump hit back at the Senate leader for his criticism, saying “Mitch is a loser for our nation and for the Republican Party who would not have been re-elected in Kentucky without my endorsement, which he begged me for because he was going down.”
As for the scandalous dinner at his private estate, Mar-a-Lago last week, former president Donald Trump said that he “had never heard of Nick 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,” he said.
Fuentes, a white supremacist, has a history of racist remarks and Holocaust revisionism, despite claiming that he does not deny the Holocaust. Regarding Ye, who has also been criticised several times for making anti-Semitic remarks, former president Trump stated that he “asked to see me for advice,” adding that he had “heard Kanye had difficulties, including financial difficulties.”
On Tuesday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., also criticized the meeting.
McCarthy, however, appeared to defend the ex-president, saying he had four times condemned Fuentes and that he “didn’t know who he was.” McCarthy responded to further questions about Fuentes by saying, “I oppose his ideology. It has no place in society.”
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