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TRUMP DINES WITH WHITE SUPREMACIST

Trump’s excuse for hosting anti-Semite

By STEVEN NELSON and EMILY CRANE

Donald Trump hosted two anti-Semites at his Mar-a-Lago resort this holiday week, breaking bread with Kanye West and the disgraced rapper’s hatespewing friend, Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.

Trump acknowledged Friday that he hosted Fuentes, an avowed white nationalist, who tagged along to dinner at the Florida estate with West on Tuesday.

Fuentes, 24, attended racist demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 and in 2019 sparked outrage by saying “the math doesn’t seem to add up” for the widely cited figure of 6 million Jewish Holocaust deaths.

“Kanye West very much wanted to visit Mar-a-Lago,” the 76-yearold ex-president said in a statement emailed to The Post. “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.”

West, who recently knocked “Jewish business people” and wrote he would go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,” is preparing to launch a delusional bid for president in 2024 — a point of apparent contention at the Mara-Lago sit-down.

Trump screamed at West — who now goes by “Ye” — during the dinner when the rapper suggested Trump be Ye’s No. 2 on the ticket.

“When Trump started basically screaming at the table telling me I was gonna lose, I mean, has that ever worked for anyone in history?” West said in a short campaign clip posted Thursday. “I’m like, ‘Wait, hold on Trump, you’re talking to Ye.’ ”

West said he also made a reference to freeing rioters arrested for storming the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

“Nick Fuentes, unlike so many of the lawyers and some of the people [Trump] was left with on his 2020 campaign, he’s actually a loyalist,” West says.

“When all the lawyers said, ‘forget it, Trump’s done,’ there were loyalists running up in the White House, right? And my question would be, ‘Why, when you had the chance, did you not free the January 6ers?’ ”

The meeting between Trump and two public anti-Semites drew outrage from across the political spectrum, including from former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who said it shows the former president is not fit to be the GOP’s nominee in 2024.

“This is just another example of an awful lack of judgment from Donald Trump, which combined with his past poor judgments, make him an untenable generalelection candidate for the Republican Party in 2024,” Christie told The New York Times.

Fuentes was permanently suspended last year from the socialmedia network GETTR, which is run by former Trump spokesman Jason Miller, but later became a verified user on Trump’s own Truth Social platform.

Fuentes’ history of shocking anti-Jewish remarks include saying this year that “Jews stood in the way” of the Supreme Court overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, which ultimately occurred in June. In a video published about five years ago, Fuentes said he “absolutely” was harmed by Jews in his daily life.

The ex-president sought to distance himself from Fuentes after West said in a video posted Thursday that “Trump is really impressed with Nick Fuentes.”

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