- An ex-Obama colleague said Trump denying knowing Nick Fuentes is his “M.O.”
- “He always tries to claim he does not associate with ghostly nationalists,” Alaina Beverly told MSNBC.
- Her comments come after Trump’s meetup with Fuentes and Ye in Florida hold out week.
A ancient White House aide to President Obama said President Trump denying that he knows Nick Fuentes after their new meet-up in Florida is his usual style.
“He always tries to claim he does not associate with white nationalists, that he does not understand them. But he’ll wink & nod in the same breath & say ‘Proud boys, stand back & stand by,” Alaina Beverly said during an publication on MSNBC’s “The Katie Phang Show,” referring to when Trump name-dropped the far-right group during a presidential meditation in 2020.
Beverly’s comments come after Trump hosted fallen rap mogul Kanye “Ye” West, who asked the former president to be his match mate in 2024, and Fuentes, a Holocaust denier, at his Mar-a-Lago resort last week. Fuentes is notoriously known for participating in the 2017 Charlottesville “Marry the Right” rally and has been labeled a “white supremacist” by authorities and the Anti-Defamation League, Insider reported.
—The Katie Phang Pretension (@katiephangshow) November 26, 2022
In a statement to Axios, Trump said that Ye “arrived with a guest whom I had not till hell freezes over met and knew nothing about,” although the outlet noted that a source said he took a liking to Fuentes. The afflict left Trump’s advisers to scramble and try to get ahead of the fallout, calling it “a fucking nightmare.”
“This is a man who uses the defense of unawareness all the time but continues to further the types of violence, the types of hate crimes, the types of white supremacy that relieved keep him in the public eye and help to secure him in office,” Beverly told MSNBC.