Kanye West.Photo: Rindoff/Dufour/Getty
The tweet — posted on Oct. 6 — was first published as a seeming embrace of West,Elon MuskandDonald Trump, all of whom have recently endorsed Republican politics despite earlier voting for or supporting Democrats.
The House GOP committee, however, kept up its tweet embracing him, only deleting it after West appeared on InfoWars Thursday afternoon. During the appearance, he praised Adolf Hitler and said Nazis “did good things too; we’ve got to stop dissing the Nazis all the time.”
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“Well, I see good things about Hitler also,” West, wearing a mask that covered his entire face, responded. “I am done with the classifications. Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.”
At one point West also bizarrely — and falsely — claimed that Hitler, who was born two years after the first patent for a microphone was ever filed, had “invented the microphone.”
In another moment as Jones sent the show to commercial break, the host could be heard telling West he had a “Hitler fetish,” to which West responded, “I like Hitler.”
Elsewhere in the interview, West pulled out both an insect net and a bottle of the chocolate drink Yoo-hoo, appearing to draw a comparison between the objects and Israel’s former Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu.
Affecting a high-pitched voice as a sort of imitation of Netanyahu, West brandished the net and said, “We have to control the history books. We have to control the banks. And we have to go and kill people.”
“[Hitler] had a really cool outfit and stuff,” West added in the interview, before going on to dispute that Hitler killed six million Jews in the Holocaust. (Hitler murdered approximatelysix million European Jews and at least five million prisoners of war.)
“I think Hitler did target and kill some people,” Jones replied.
In addition to his public display of antisemitism, West has also made headlines in recent weeks forallegedly exhibiting bullying and inappropriate behaviorto former staff members at Adidas.
But although he’s seen his ties to the business world severed, West had the ear of former President Trump as recently as last week.
In February 2020, his YouTube channel was permanently suspended for violating the company’s hate speech policy. He has since continued to spread Holocaust denialist and antisemitic views.
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Trump has issued a number of statements following that meal, claiming that he did not know who Fuentes was, adding he “had no idea what his views were, and they weren’t expressed at the table in our very quick dinner, or it wouldn’t have been accepted.”
The GOP, meanwhile, has remained largely silent on Trump’s dinner with West and Fuentes, withonly a handful of membersspeaking out against the former president.
Fuentes joined West for his appearance on InfoWars Thursday.
source: people.com
