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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Lynn Sweet

GOP leaders McCarthy, McConnell condemn Nick Fuentes, whose path to hate started in Chicago suburbs

Podcaster Nick Fuentes, in sunglasses, greets supporters at a pro-Trump rally on Nov. 14, 2020 in Washington. Last week, former President Trump had dinner with Fuentes and rapper Kanye West at his Florida estate. (AP Photos)

WASHINGTON — Nick Fuentes, 24, who parlayed a podcast from the basement of his parents’ LaGrange Park home to being the face of antisemitism in the U.S. today, was condemned on Tuesday by the top two Republican leaders in Congress, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy.

McConnell, the Senate minority leader, didn’t wait to be asked about Fuentes and the dinner he had Nov. 22 with former President Donald Trump and the rapper formerly known as Kanye West — who has his own history of antisemitism — at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

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