Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) condemned former president Donald Trump for having a dinner with Nick Fuentes, an outspoken antisemite and Holocaust denier. Trump claimed he didn’t know Fuentes was coming and that he was invited by another guest, Kanye West.
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00:00For a former president, to sit down and have dinner
00:04with a high-profile anti-Semite is disgusting and dangerous.
00:09Last week, it was reported that Donald Trump,
00:12the former president of the United States
00:14and Republican standard-bearer,
00:16had dinner at Mar-a-Lago with a notorious bigot
00:20who fancies himself a leading thinker
00:22on the extreme edges of the hard right,
00:25embracing everything from white nationalism
00:28to anti-Semitism to outright Holocaust denial.
00:33For a former president, to sit down and have dinner
00:37with a high-profile anti-Semite is disgusting and dangerous.
00:43To give an anti-Semite even the smallest platform,
00:46much less an audience over dinner, is pure evil.
00:51Even assuming the former president didn't realize
00:53Mr. Fuentes was coming to Mar-a-Lago,
00:56for him to refuse to condemn Fuentes
00:59and his bigoted words after the dinner
01:02is appalling and it is dangerous.
01:05I'm glad that some of the former president's friends and allies,
01:09particularly those in the Jewish community,
01:12are pushing him to do the right thing
01:14by condemning this vicious anti-Semite,
01:17since the former president does not seem to have the honor,
01:21the decency, the humanity to do it on his own.