

His name is Nick Fuentes. Here is Maggie Haberman and Alan Feuer at the The New York Times:
Former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday night had dinner with Nick Fuentes, an outspoken antisemite and racist who is one of the country’s most prominent young white supremacists, at Mr. Trump’s private club in Florida, advisers to Mr. Trump conceded on Friday.
Also at the dinner was the performer Kanye West, who has also been denounced for making antisemitic statements. Mr. West traveled to meet with Mr. Trump at the club, Mar-a-Lago, and brought Mr. Fuentes along, the advisers said.
The fourth attendee at the four-person dinner, Karen Giorno — a veteran political operative who worked on Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign as his state director in Florida — also confirmed that Mr. Fuentes was there. Attempts to reach Mr. Fuentes through an intermediary on Friday were unsuccessful.
In recent years, Mr. Fuentes, 24, has developed a high profile on the far right and forged ties with such Republican lawmakers as Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona, largely through his leadership of an annual white-supremacist event called the America First Political Action Conference.
Read the rest here.
If you want to learn more about him, check out Greg Williams’s February 2022 Current piece, “‘Christ is King,’ They Say. What Does It Mean?”
I will start by admitting I have not read widely on this, and I may not have read the article above or the linked article from Greg Williams as carefully as I should. And another qualifier – I am not a journalist and I may be way off here. But, in such articles and the few news reports I have listened to concerning this Fuentes – I have been told he is a white supremacist and antisemitic, but I have not been shown the proof that he is. Just by the people he associates with I can make some judgement, but to label him as such, should not some proof be provided? I am not interested enough to search his speeches or writings out, but I think a journalist should provide a few examples – for those of us ignorant of this person. David Duke, for example, did not need proof-texts from journalist in a story. We knew he was in the KKK and a Grand Master or Wizard or whatever silly title they give each other, and we knew what the Klan stood for. I consider myself to be pretty plugged in to our current political moment. At least one political podcast a day and, of course, reading Current, as well as other sources – yet I do not know Mr Fuentes or that he is in fact a white supremacist. I suppose in the time I have taken to write this I could have found some proof, but I really do not care too much about a 20 some year old and the influence to hate, or not hate, he thinks he has – looking back in 10 years the answer will probably (and hopefully) be – not much. But really, my comment is on giving some proof within an article.
That’s fair. I don’t have time right now, but I think there is a LOT of evidence from Fuentes’s work that supports the journalistic claims against him. I mostly did this post to call attention to Williams’s piece. I’m always looking for promote CURRENT pieces that speak to issues as they arise.
In terms of journalism, the NY Times piece you linked may have provided all the background information I needed – but it is behind a paywall. My podcasts have caught up to the news and now I know all I need to know about this guy – and it is not good. The definition of a Crazy Town resident – and sounds like he wants to be the mayor.