Saturday's Salacious Absurdities: Trump Gives Us the Mother of All Unforced Errors

Trump just can’t help himself, Part 6,592:

Byron York @ByronYork

According to this report in Breitbart, Trump had dinner at Mar-a-Lago with Kanye, Nick Fuentes, and Milo Yiannopoulos, because a former president, now in another campaign, just can't have enough disreputable people at the table.

breitbart.comTrump Dined at Mar-a-Lago with White Nationalist, Holocaust Denier Nick Fuentes & Kanye West; UPDATE - Trump Responds, ‘Had Never Met and K…Kanye West released screenshots of text messages and a video after his dinner with former President Donald Trump that suggest in addition to dining with the rapper this week, the former president met with an openly white nationalist and Holocaust denier named Nick Fuentes.

Before some of you attack the messenger because you can’t attack the message, please note that that’s not a report from the New York Times; not from the AP or the Washington Post. It’s a Tweet by reliably conservative Byron York citing a story from reliably conservative, Trump-boosting Breitbart.

Here’s an excerpt from the Breitbart story:

In addition to these developments, two people who say they were at the dinner on Tuesday evening–Yiannopoulos and onetime Trump aide Karen Giorno–have publicly stated that Fuentes was in fact at the dinner with West and Trump.

“Nick attended the dinner and sat across from the president. I sat to the president’s right and Ye to his left,” Giorno said in a statement to podcaster Tim Poole’s website Timcast. “The president was by himself for dinner but invited Ye to meet some people on the patio.”

Cassandra Fairbanks, the author of the article on Timcast that quotes Giorno–who is now working for West’s 2024 campaign after having worked for Trump in 2016–and Yiannopoulos adds in a later sentence citing Yiannopoulos on record confirming the presence of Fuentes at the dinner with Trump: “Though Trump allegedly flew off the handle at Ye, he was ‘dazzled’ by Fuentes, Yiannopoulos told Timcast.”

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Oh, goody: The guy who wants to be the GOP 2024 presidential nominee was “dazzled” by Nick Fuentes. That’s just friggin’ wonderful.