Trump news – live: Jewish Republicans turn on Trump after dinner with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes

The news that Donald Trump had met with Kanye West and bilious antisemite Nick Fuentes has left many elected Republicans unsure what they can say short of outright condemning the former president – but according to a report from The New York Times, many in the Jewish Republican elite are ready to turn their backs on Mr Trump altogether.

Not all Republican leaders have spoken out, but Jewish Republicans are slowly peeling away from a former president who, for years, insisted he had no ties to the bigoted far right, but refused to repudiate it. Jewish figures and organizations that have stood by Mr. Trump, from Mr. Klein’s group to the pro-Trump commentator Ben Shapiro to Mr. Trump’s own former ambassador to Israel and onetime bankruptcy lawyer, David M. Friedman, have all spoken out since the dinner.

For Jews, the concern extends far beyond a single meal at Mar-a-Lago, though that dinner has become a touchstone, especially for Jewish Republicans.

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The civil lawsuit alleges that Mr Trump tried to disenfranchise voters, intimidate election officials and undermine lawfully cast votes in violation of both the federal Voting Rights Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act.

Mr Trump’s lawyers pushed back on the lawsuit, claiming that he has “absolute immunity” from civil lawsuits as a former president. But on Monday, a federal judge in Washington DC disagreed.

Civil lawsuit alleges the former president tried to disenfranchise voters, intimidate election officials and undermine lawfully cast votes in violation of both the federal Voting Rights Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act

Continuing his post-Mar-a-Lago tour, Kanye West brought Nick Fuentes along with him for an appearance on reactionary influencer Tim Pool’s Timcast – an interview that ended abruptly when the host told him he could not draw antisemitic inferences from the proximity of prominent Jewish people to American presidents.

Pool started the show by asking Ye about his recent dinner with Trump, and Ye explained how a number of other “canceled” commentators had got in touch after his “deathcon 3 on Jewish people” tweet. Ye revealed that Alex Jones’s producer had connected him with Yiannopoulos, who in turn brought Fuentes into the fold. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for Ye to launch into a diatribe about the Jews controlling politics and the media. “Rahm Emanuel was next to Obama and Jared Kushner was right next to Trump,” he stressed. Pool pushed back respectfully, but Ye threatened to leave the show on two separate occasions before finally walking out at the twenty-one-minute mark.

I was sitting in the basement and could hear doors slamming upstairs, but when I went up to the kitchen Ye was gleefully holding court. He seemed in better spirits than he had the entire night, perhaps because the pressure of the program was off. One of the show’s regulars, Hannah Claire Brimelow, was telling Ye that she wished he had more time to share his views because people “needed to hear them.”

Days after meeting Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago alongside Kanye West, virulently antisemitic white nationalist livestreamer Nick Fuentes has underscored his far-right agenda to push the Republican Party even further right, believing that the former president’s so-called Make America Great Again movement is no longer the vehicle to do just that.

Alex Woodward reports on his remarks.

Virulent antisemite and far-right influencer no longer sees Trump as the vehicle for nationalist agenda

Marco Rubio branded Nick Fuentes a “nasty, disgusting person” and “an a** clown” after Donald Trump hosted a meeting with the white supremacist and Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago.

Several Republicans have refused to condemn Mr Trump over the meeting with the notorious white nationalist and Mr West, who has gone on an antisemitic rampage of late.

The Florida senator, meanwhile, had some strong words about the incident, saying that he hopes Mr Trump will speak out to condemn Mr Fuentes following the controversy.

“I know [Mr Trump’s] not an antisemite. I can tell you that for a fact that Trump is not but this guy [Mr Fuentes] is evil,” he said, according to CNN.

A federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump’s claim that he has “presidential immunity” from a lawsuit about his actions around the 2020 election – in the latest blow to the former president as the fallout over a meeting with Kanye West and white supremacist continues.

Civil rights groups including the NAACP are suing Mr Trump and the Republican National Committee for trying to disenfranchise voters, intimidate election officials and undermine lawfully cast votes in violation of both the federal Voting Rights Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act.

While Mr Trump’s lawyers claimed that he has “absolute immunity, on Monday, DC District Judge Emmet Sullivan disagreed.

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Donald Trump’s political bruising in response to his meeting with one of America’s most prominent racists only grew worse due to his unwillingness to take advice from his own advisers and condemn the man’s views, according to a new report.

John Bowden reports on the attempts to get the president to distance himself from Nick Fuentes.

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