Presidential candidate Kanye West’s latest campaign finance reports reveal that, while he personally spends money, no one has given a single dollar to the rapper who has become-Hitler sympathizer whole year.
The submitwhich the campaign sent on Monday to list its costs for the last three months of 2022, also shows that Ye paid Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes more 9,000 USD to get a “travel reimbursement” on the same November day that rapper and Fuentes have dinner with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, with right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.
Fuentes told The Daily Beast on Monday afternoon that the travel costs were “incurred by me and the team when I moved to LA in November to work on Kanye 2020,” referring to the official name of the still-unofficial operation. in the year 2024 of Ye.
Yiannopoulos is also on the record, receiving $40,000 for a “campaign summary service” in mid-December, when Yeezy sack him. Milo also received about $10,000 for a “domain transfer” on the same day as dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Yiannopoulos was paid at an address in Rome, Georgia, home of Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), conservative hire him as a trainee.
But despite spending more than $142,000 in costs, as well as announcing an unofficial bid in 2024 with the stars on the right sideYe said she received no donations for the whole of 2022.
Ye’s downward spiral played out in the public eye over the course of several weeks last fall. It started when he wore a “White Lives Matter” t-shirt to a Paris fashion showthen quickly accelerated after a rambling appearance on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program was Revised disclosure to remove a bunch of anti-Semitic comments. Responding to criticism, rapper promised performed the “third death” of the Jews, causing his former colleagues and acquaintances to regard him as a deeply rooted anti-Semitism and longtime fan of Adolf Hitlerthus costing him lucrative business deals.
West’s November dinner with Trump, Fuentes and Yiannopoulos at Mar-a-Lago quickly bred its own news cycleYeezy then praises Hitler on Alex Jones’ show.
“Well, I see good things about Hitler,” West tell Jones, who tried in vain to speak back to the rapper from the sidelines. “Every human being has the value they bring, especially Hitler.”
As for the Western 2024 unofficial campaign, Yiannopoulos is boxed in December, days after the interview with Jones. At that time, the far-right provocateur said Daily Beast, he and Ye came to a “joint conclusion” that Yiannopoulos would “resign”—a decision that appears to have netted Milo $40,000. The campaign’s growing internal tensions only drive Ye further into the far-right trench to find talent, recruit Racist YouTuber “Sneako .”.”
As part of the aftermath, Ye also lost his new campaign treasurer, replacing him with professional treasurer Patrick Krason in December. Krason’s company made nearly $40,000 that month, the filing The latest shows, including payments for travel, web services, video hosting services, legal fees, and $10,000 for campaign and office supplies.
Ye also shelled out thousands of dollars in compliance fees to a company called GSF, which The Daily Beast disclosure last year connected with veteran Republican agents. The company has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Ye for financial services since he launched his 2020 bid, a campaign that turned out to be run secretly by well-connected GOP elites. , The Daily Beast formerly report.
While that campaign received a huge amount of public support, much of it came from young hype beasts looking to sell collectible merchandise, former The Daily Beast report, including “contributions” from teenagers and unidentified drop-shippers operating overseas. But due to traffic jams and fundraising regulations, Ye was forced to refund hundreds of thousands of dollars. His records show a total refund of $230,000 this election cycle.
The Daily Beast sent requests for comment to Yiannopoulos, Krason and Ali Alexander – who currently work for the Western team – but none of them immediately responded.
