USA Today: “Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson said former President Donald Trump’s meeting with a white nationalist last week was not “accidental” and that “it shouldn’t happen.”
Trump, who this month announced he was running for president in the 2024 election, hosted a dinner with white supremacist Nick Fuentes and rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, at his Mar-a-Lago resort Tuesday night.
“You could have accidental meetings. Things like that happened. This was not an accidental meeting,” Hutchinson, the Arkansas governor, said during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union.
Several political leaders have criticized Trump’s dinner with Fuentes, a leader in the far-right movement, and Ye, who has come under fire for antisemitic comments, including David Friedman, Trump’s former ambassador to Israel, and former GOP New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.”