Rapper and entrepreneur Kanye West has experienced several thefts from his 2020 presidential campaign account.
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Kanye West praised Adolf Hitler in a Thursday appearance on a far-right conspiracy theorist’s show.
The outburst appeared to shock both Alex Jones, the host, and some House Republicans.
On Twitter, the GOP House Judiciary account deleted an October post that said: “Kanye. Elon. Trump.”
The rapper Kanye West explicitly praising Adolf Hitler while flanked by a white nationalist during a Thursday interview with a far-right conspiracy theorist may have been the final straw for the House Judiciary Committee’s Twitter account.
In October, the Twitter account for GOP members of the House Judiciary Committee was all-in on the man who now goes by Ye, posting: “Kanye. Elon. Trump.“
That post came just days before the hip-hop artist was suspended from Twitter after posting that he was “going death con 3” on Jewish people, a suspension that was lifted after Musk completed his $44 billion purchase of the social media company. The rapper was later dropped by Adidas after a series of similar and increasingly unhinged antisemitic rants, which the company described as “unacceptable, hateful, and dangerous.”
In October, the Twitter account for Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee expressed solidarity with Kanye West.
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It was not until Thursday, the same afternoon as Ye’s interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones that he appears to have crossed the line for those running the GOP account. The post, which was still up as of 1:29 p.m. ET, appeared to be removed during Ye’s outrageous appearance on Infowars.
Speaking to Jones — while joined by Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist who dined last month with Ye and former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago — the rapper, his head shrouded by a black ski mask, stated: “Well, I see good things about Hitler.”
That came after Jones had attempted to provide West cover for his bigoted statements, saying that “you’re not a Nazi, you don’t deserve to be called that.”
“I love everyone,” West claimed, before once more attacking Jews. He then appeared to falsely credit the fascist leader of Nazi Germany with “inventing highways” and “the very microphone that I use as a musician.”
Before Jones broke for a commercial break, West added of the man who masterminded the mass murder of more than 6 million Jews: “I like Hitler.“
As CNN reported in October, West has a history of praising the architect of the Holocaust, according to sources who were previously close to the rapper, four of whom claimed that he had wanted to name his 2018 album after the dictator.
“He would praise Hitler by saying how incredible it was that he was able to accumulate so much power and would talk about all the great things he and the Nazi Party achieved for the German people,” one source said.
West also is said to have praised Hitler during a 2018 interview with TMZ, remarks that a former staffer recently claimed were edited out of the final cut.
A spokesperson for Rep. Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who is currently the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, did not respond to a request for comment.
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