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Rapper Kanye West seems to have misplaced one more fan as a consequence of his quickly shifting political opinions.
Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist Maga podcaster recognized for his lengthy historical past of antisemitic and misogynistic remarks, lamented throughout his podcast this week that it was “so over” after Mr West issued a weird apology in Hebrew for “outbursts” towards Jewish communities world wide.
“Form of a giant, powerful black capsule for all of us to swallow,” Mr Fuentes instructed his viewers within the remarks first reported by Proper Wing Watch. “Disappointing, however not precisely stunning.”
Mr West’s apology got here after his personal spree of antisemitic feedback and his hiring of Mr Fuentes, a Holocaust denier, to work on his vaguely critical bids for the White Home.
Mr Fuentes tagged together with Mr West in 2022 to Mar-a-Lago, the place the 2 together with alt-right gadfly Milo Yiannopolous dined with former President Donald Trump.
In complete, FEC filings present that Mr West, who’s often known as Ye, paid Mr Fuentes greater than $30,000 via his 2020 presidential marketing campaign.
It was unclear what precise work, if any, Mr Fuentes did for the West marketing campaign, which didn’t acquire poll entry throughout all 50 states and amounted to nothing however an arrogance mission ultimately.
The political stint coincided with the messy, public dissolution of Mr West’s marriage to Kim Kardashian and his relatedly ugly feud along with her now-ex-boyfriend, Pete Davidson of Saturday Evening Reside.
Mr West has proven no critical indicators of launching one other bid for the presidency in 2024, and in October his lawyer instructed reporters for Rolling Stone that he wouldn’t be a candidate this cycle.
After his ill-fated dinner with Mr Trump in 2022, he claimed to have requested the longer term GOP frontrunner to function his working mate for the 2024 race.