Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks on the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, in Simi Valley, Calif. On Monday, Pence denounced Trump’s dinner with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes Mark J. Terrill, Related Press
Former Vice President Mike Pence referred to as on former President Donald Trump to apologize for having dinner with identified white supremacist Nick Fuentes and Ye, the rapper previously generally known as Kanye West, saying Trump was “mistaken” for doing so.
What did Mike Pence say about Trump’s dinner with an ‘antisemite’?
In a “NewsNation” interview Monday, Pence acknowledged, “President Trump was mistaken to provide a white nationalist, an antisemite and a Holocaust denier, a seat on the desk and I feel he ought to apologize for it, and he ought to denounce these people and their hateful rhetoric with out qualification.”
“With that being mentioned,” Pence continued, “I don’t imagine Donald Trump is an antisemite. I don’t imagine he’s a racist or a bigot. I'd not have been his vp if he was.”
Who's Nick Fuentes?
Final week, Trump hosted a dinner with Ye and Fuentes.
The Division of Justice final 12 months recognized Fuentes as a white supremacist and he's identified for making antisemitic feedback and denying the Holocaust, the Deseret Information reported.
Fuentes was additionally current on the U.S. Capital grounds in the course of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.
Trump tried to distance himself from Fuentes, saying he “knew nothing” about him previous to the dinner, in response to The Related Press.