“CNN This Morning” host Don Lemon visited the former president’s Mar-a-Lago during a segment Monday with Yeh — the rapper formerly known as Kanye West — and prominent white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Pushed against a former Trump administration official during dinner. Week.
Len Khodorkovsky, a former deputy assistant secretary of state and a Jewish man who said he was the grandson of Holocaust survivors, was asked whether it was wrong for Trump to meet with the pair.
Khodorkovsky said, “As far as I understand, President Trump said he didn’t know Nick Fuentes was coming, and Nick Fuentes himself, from what I understand, said President Trump didn’t know that Who was he at dinner?” “So I — look, let’s just call Nick Fuentes who he is: he’s an antisemitist, he’s repulsive, his views are disgusting and nobody of any substance should give him a platform. It’s clearly It’s under President Trump to meet him.
Khodorkovsky argued that if they were going to talk about “mainstreaming antisemitism”, they would have to look “in the halls of Congress” at Democratic lawmakers like Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
But Lemon pointed out that he is “not the President of the United States.”
“Don’t you think that the former president, considering what’s happening, the investigation at Mar-a-Lago, the documents, the types of people who might have access to classified documents, beyond antisemitism, don’t you think That the former president should know who he’s meeting and letting into his home?, Lemon asked.
Khodorkovsky replied that “of course” Trump should know who he is meeting with.
“It looks like you’re making excuses for him,” Lemon interjected. “You’re saying he should know who he’s meeting and then you’re saying, ‘Well, he didn’t know.’ It sounds like you’re making excuses for that and there’s no excuse for bad behavior, there’s no excuse for antisemitism and there’s no excuse for being a former president and not knowing where you put classified documents Has happened .”
Khodorkovsky condemned Yeh’s antisemitism and said Trump should not have met with him and Fuentes, but said he knew the former president was not an antisemitist.
He does not need to apologise.
Khodorkovsky then stressed the real issue of concern should be the increase in antisemitism around the world and in the US.
Khodorkovsky concluded, “We should not give a platform to any Holocaust deniers or antisemites, wherever they may be.” “I don’t think the president should have met with Kanye or his aides and I wish no one else did.”
