Rightwing provocateur says he helped arrange for white supremacist to attend dinner with Trump and Kanye West. As fallout from Donald Trump’s meeting with the white supremacist Nick Fuentes continues, a far-right activist has claimed the meeting was a set-up, meant to “make Trump’s life miserable”. NBC News reported that in an attempt to “send a message” to the former president, Milo Yiannopoulos, a rightwing provocateur and former Breitbart editor, helped arrange for Fuentes to travel to Mar-a-Lago in Florida for a dinner between Trump and the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West. Trump dined with Fuentes and Ye at his resort on 22 November. Since the meeting, Trump has been criticized by senior Republicans and by conservative Jewish leaders. Trump said Ye was invited to dinner and “unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends … whom I knew nothing about”. He has not condemned Fuentes and his views. Fuentes has been described by the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League as “among the most prominent and unapologetic antisemites in the country”. Speaking to NBC, Yiannopoulos said he came up with a plan for Fuentes to travel with Ye and hopefully gain access to the former president. “I wanted to show Trump the kind of talent that he’s missing out on by allowing his terrible handlers to dictate who he can and can’t hang out with,” Yiannopoulos said. “I also wanted to send a message to Trump that he has systematically repeatedly neglected, ignored, abused the people who love him the most, the people who put him in office, and that kind of behavior comes back to bite you in the end.” Yiannopoulos was once a leading figure in the alt-right movement but he has been banned by most major social media networks and lost a book deal in 2017 after appearing to endorse paedophilia. He told NBC he also arranged the meeting “just to make Trump’s life miserable”, because he was aware news of the dinner would leak. Trump has engaged with racists in the past, including claiming there were “very fine people on both sides” of a white supremacist rally in Virginia which resulted in the death of a counter-protester.
via guardian: Milo Yiannopoulos claims he set up Fuentes dinner ‘to make Trump’s life miserable’
siehe auch: Milo claims he set up Trump’s dinner with white supremacist as revenge “The master troll got trolled. Kanye punked Trump.”. “Ex-gay” troll Milo Yiannopoulos is claiming responsibility for the dinner that may have ruined Donald Trump’s chances at winning the 2024 Republican nomination for president. On November 22, Trump hosted a dinner with antisemitic rapper Kanye West (who is going by “Ye”) and white supremacist leader Nick Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Trump got criticized even by many Republicans for dining with Fuentes, who is an open supporter of the Taliban because it’s a “conservative, religious force.” Fuentes has compared Jews being burnt in concentration camps during the Holocaust to cookies baking in an oven. Fuentes is also the leader of the “Groyper Army,” a group of far-right and racist internet trolls.