Friends leave him, but he finds new ones, less presentable in fact.
This is the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, about a week ago he announced that he would run again in the next presidential elections in 2024, despite the fact that in the mid-term elections the candidates he sponsored did not collect a few votes, while he had great success personal his whole enemy to the Republican party: Florida Governor Ron De Santis.
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Ron DeSantis
Many of the people historically close to him had advised him not to try again.
Three investigations that have been chasing him for some time and could end in the coming months with possible if not probable indictments, the polls against him, his now advanced age seemed good arguments to those who, like his daughter Ivanka herself, have gradually announced that she will not support him in this new adventure.
The first to slip away was the historic ally for years, Robert Murdoch, who had immediately supported De Santis, then bankers, lawyers and politicians joined Fox's boss, unsuspecting of a about-face in times of need.
The last one is precisely that Elon Musk who a few days ago readmitted on the Twitter platform (the last, expensive, purchase) the ex-president's account suspended just under two years ago for the falsehoods touted about the elections lost in 2020 He too will support De Santis in 2024.
With his old friends gone, he did not miss the support of the MAGA extremists, Make America Great Again, his movement that was able to bring him to victory in 2016. It starts with the deputies Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz close to QAnon, and we get to the most recent signings, like the guests he had at his Mar-a-Lago estate last night.
Slightly embarrassing though: two well-known anti-Semites like rapper Kanye West and nationalist, white supremacist and Holocaust denier, former youtuber Nick Fuentes.
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Kanye West
The dinner between Donald Trump and the duo West and Fuentes attracted harsh criticism of the tycoon, and once again coming from an old friend: David Friedman, former American ambassador to Israel during the Trump presidency.
"To my friend Donald Trump - he wrote on Twitter - I say that you are better than this. A social visit from an anti-Semite like Kanye West and a human scum like Nick Fuentes is also unacceptable. I invite you to get rid of these bums, disown them and leave them in the dustbin of history where they belong".
Definitive words.
Of course, the tycoon then distanced himself from the blameless woman.
Through a spokesperson, he told ultra-right-wing site Breitbart.com: "Kanye West so wanted to visit Mar-a-Lago. Our dinner meeting was supposed to be just between Kanye and me, but he came with a guest I didn't have." never met and knew nothing about".
In short, a dinner without his knowledge.
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A Donald Trump rally in Florida