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Salon
Salon
Politics
Amanda Marcotte

Before Trump, GOP and Fox News hyped Ye

In the immediate aftermath of reports that Donald Trump had dinner with two notable antisemitic political figures — Nick Fuentes of America First and Ye (formerly Kanye West) — a simple excuse was floated to mitigate the backlash: It wasn't Trump's fault — he was sandbagged! 

"Our dinner meeting was intended to be Kanye and me only, but he arrived with a guest whom I had never met and knew nothing about," Trump said in a statement in which he also notably did not condemn Fuentes's antisemitism, racism or misogyny. 

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