Key Trump 2024 Rivals Silent After His White Supremacist Meeting

[RandySF]

Many of Donald Trump’s potential 2024 rivals and some top Republicans have fallen silent on the former president’s dinner with a notorious white supremacist, illustrating the party’s continuing struggle to escape his grasp.

Trump’s impromptu dinner with Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago last week has drawn condemnation from only a handful of Republicans, while most sidestepped the matter or said nothing. Those silent so far include Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy, the chamber’s likely next speaker.

Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor who is rumored to be weighing a 2024 bid, told the New York Times it showed an “awful lack of judgment” by Trump that, when combined with other transgressions, make him an “untenable general election candidate for the Republican Party in 2024.”

Fuentes, who repeatedly expresses white supremacist and anti-Semitic views, arrived at Mar-a-Lago as guest of Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, who has run afoul of sponsors and social media with anti-Semitic remarks of his own. Trump’s former ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, called Fuentes “human scum” and urged Trump to disavow both men.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-27/key-trump-2024-rivals-silent-after-his-white-supremacist-meeting?leadSource=uverify%20wall

[central scrutinizer]

1. Profiles in Cowardice

[ret5hd]

5. "Profiles In Like Minds"

Subtitle still under consideration.

(BTW, how are you brother? And all the family?)

[msongs]

2. trump and christie both blowhards. a good match. let em go at it nt

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. Of course

because they're all mad they weren't invited!

[Mike Nelson]

4. Hmm...

... Crooked Donald is winning Republican primary voters, with this behavior.

[peggysue2]

6. Silence equals Complicity

There is no neutral in this argument. Anyone who gives a pass to the likes of Fuentes (in particular) or Kanye West is signing onto all their rancid ideas and unAmerican, anti-democratic utterances.

No excuses!

[Jack the Greater]

7. It's a tacit admission that today's GOP is the Party of White Supremacy.

It has morphed from the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Nathan Bedford Forrest.

[WarGamer]

10. Bad comparison.

In his old age, Forrest railed against racism, encouraged bringing the races together and was never a part of "the Lost Causers"

Hundreds of black people of Memphis marched in his funeral march.

I would have said:

It has morphed from the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Jefferson Davis

[NQAS]

8. They're silent....

Because they may seek their endorsements down the road.

[WarGamer]

9. I'm starting to think he's going to lose like the first 5-6 Primary races and quit.