From our correspondent in the United States,
Dropped by Adidas, Balenciaga, Gap and Foot Locker after his anti-Semitic excesses, Kanye West chose to respond with a superiority. The one who now calls himself “Ye” has surrounded himself with two far-right figures for his 2024 presidential candidate project: white supremacist Nick Fuentes, 24, who came with him to dine with Donald Trump last year, but also Milo Yiannopoulos , a former editor of nationalist site Breitbart News and figure of the alt-right. At the invitation of YouTuber Tim Pool, the trio slammed the door in the middle of an interview on Monday. The reason ? The podcaster interrupted Ye in the middle of a tirade about “the Jews” present in “banks and media.”
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Donald Trump has come under fire from all sides, including Mike Pence, for hosting Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago. The former American president claimed it was Kanye West who brought the young nationalist with him and that he “didn’t know” him.
Nick Fuentes, the troll of white supremacy
He’s only 24 years old but already has one hell of a hate resume. He rose to prominence after attending the Charlottesville racist rally in 2017 and took the lead of the “Groypers,” racist trolls who grew up on 4chan memes and rallied under the banner of Pepe the Frog. In his America First podcast, Fuentes downplayed the magnitude of the Holocaust, comparing the time it took to kill Jews in the gas chambers to the time it took to bake “a round of 6 million cookies.” . He has campaigned for racial segregation, advocated violence against women – who he believes should not have the right to vote – and attacked many prominent figures in the LGBTQ community.
On January 6, 2021, we see Nick Fuentes with a megaphone in front of the Capitol, but a priori he did not enter the building. A few weeks earlier, Fuentes had received $250,000 in bitcoins from a French netizen who committed suicide and donated his fortune to several international ultra-right figures. Contacted by 20 Minutes at the time, he refused to reply and blocked our Twitter account.
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Abandoned by YouTube, Twitter and Meta, he turned to Telegram, where he has 45,000 subscribers, and partnered with conspirator Alex Jones to launch live streaming platform Cozy.tv.
Milo Yiannopoulos, The Return of the Pariah
How did Nick Fuentes bond with Kanye West? It was Briton Milo Yiannopoulos who introduced them. The former Breitbart News got in touch with Kanye West through an Alex Jones producer, he explained on the set of Tim Pool. When Ye hinted in a video last Thursday that he would run in 2024, he introduced Yiannopoulos as his “campaign leader.”
For the former protégé of Steve Bannon, it’s a return to the limelight five years after it was “cancelled”. During Gamergate, he attacked “feminist sociopathic programmers”. In 2016, he was banned from Twitter and accused of taking part in a mob campaign against black actress Leslie Jones. Radioactive after defending sexual relations between adults and 13-year-olds in the gay community, he quit Breitbart.
Today, Milo Yiannopoulos describes himself as “Catholic” and “ex-gay” and defends conversion therapy. He made his political comeback this summer as an intern for Marjorie Taylor Greene-elect before joining Kanye West. Who, as we recall, received a total of 66,365 votes in the 2020 presidential election.