Trump Camp In Massive Damage Control Mode After Dinner With White Supremacist - Ring of Fire

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Donald Trump has been whining about coverage of his dinner with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes for days since it happened last week, but his aides are doing more than whining. The sense among Trump's advisers is one of complete panic, and they've described the situation as an absolute "nightmare." But this is what Trump does and this is what drives so many competent people away, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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Apparently Donald Trump played the worst game ever of guess who's coming to dinner last week when Kanye West showed up at Malago with none other than white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Now, Trump claims up and down that he does not know who Nick Fuentez was. And according to several staffers who spoke on the condition of anonymity, they're corroborating Trump's claim that he didn't know who this kid was. Uh, it doesn't matter because he is a Holocaust denying white supremacist. So maybe somebody there at Malago should have looked it up before he sat down at the same table as the former president to have a meal Last Tuesday evening, one staffer who again spoke on the condition of anonymity, said, this is a nightmare if people are looking at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to run against Trump. Here's another reason why that is, again, from a longtime Trump advisor who admits that this whole fiasco that has not died down in the media ever since it happened last Tuesday evening, said it's a nightmare.

And yeah, I think Trump understands that too, because Donald Trump spent the next four days on truth social actually five days, I think ranting and raving trying to make it seem like it was totally no big deal. So here are several of Trump's post to truth social about his dinner with the white supremacist. This past week, Kanye West called me to have dinner at Malago. Shortly thereafter, he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends whom I knew nothing about. We had dinner on Tuesday evening with many members present on the back patio. The dinner was quick and uneventful. They then left for the airport, and then the next day, Donald Trump said this, yay. Formally known as Kanye West was asking me for advice concerning some of his difficulties in particular having to do with his business. We also discussed to a lesser extent, politics where I told him he should definitely not run for president.

Anyway, we got along great. He expressed no antisemitism, and I also appreciated all the nice things he said about me on Tucker Carlson. Also, I didn't know Nick Fuentez. You know, before I continue, let me just point out for a second. Um, I've met with friends a lot throughout my life, and never once have I had to describe the meetings with my friends by saying, oh yeah, it was great. There was no antisemitism at all. Because, because that's what's expected, that there's not gonna be antisemitism. But, but with Kanye West, you kind of have to specify whether or not the antisemitism showed up during the discussion. Good to know that it didn't happen though, right? Allegedly Donald Trump on Saturday morning, then sent out this

One, one. So I hope a seriously troubled man who just happens to be black, yay, Kanye West, who has been decimated in his business and virtually everything else, and who has always been good to me by allowing his request for a meeting at Malago alone so that I can give him very much needed advice. He put in quotes, he shows up with three people, two of which I didn't know the other, a political person who I haven't seen in years. I told him, don't run for office. Total waste of time. Can't win. Fake news went crazy. They went crazy because you had dinner with a white supremacist, right?

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1. Republicans (with a few exceptions) fall into one of two categories:

Those who agree with Trump's fascist sympathies - but are just smart enough to know it's opprobious, and will tap dance around it by claiming "Trump didn't really mean that."

And those who agree with Trump's fascist sympathies - and go hog-wild with glee.

Either way, these people are nothing but trouble.