Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes has claimed that Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene asked to visit Kanye West's presidential campaign office.
Fuentes, who is part of the rapper's campaign team, made the claim after Greene publicly denounced the far-right extremist amid the controversy of Fuentes' visit to Mar-a-Lago to see former President Donald Trump.
Fuentes and West—who legally changed his name to Ye in 2021—visited Trump in November, along with Milo Yiannopoulos, an alt-right figure who worked as a congressional intern for Greene in summer 2022. He is now the campaign manager for West's 2024 presidential run.
Greene recently denounced Fuentes despite previously speaking at his America First Political Action Conference in February and retweeting a post on November 21 urging Elon Musk to reinstate him to Twitter.
Speaking on the online show Politically Provoked, Fuentes has claimed that Greene sought to visit the Ye 2024 campaign office in California last week "when it was cool" but is now distancing herself as the "pressure got too hot."
West has made a string of antisemitic statements over the past few week, including declaring "I Like Hitler" on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' InfoWars show. The hip hop star was suspended from Twitter on Thursday after tweeting an image of a swastika inside the Star of David.
"Here's the funny thing. A week ago, she was texting Milo and saying that she wanted to come to the office," Fuentes said. "Milo was saying, 'oh, Marjorie is texting me. She wants to come out to the Ye 2024 office and visit.'
"When it was cool, she was about it. When it was cool, she was gonna race over to LA to get to the office to appear cool, and get attention. And then when the pressure got too hot, then she flipped back. 'Oh, nevermind. Nevermind. Now I don't want to go. Now I denounce Nick Fuentes,'" he added.
"When it was the hottest thing in the world, she would do anything to be a part of it. But the second it got a little bit uncomfortable when the swastikas came out—not even…before the swastikas came out—then she goes 'oh actually I denounce' and it's just so predictable."
Fuentes has not provided evidence to support his claim that Greene sought to visit the rapper's 2024 presidential campaign office.
Speaking on her own online show, Greene criticized Fuentes as "immature" and "racist" and asked why West or anyone else would want to associate with him.
"Most people in this country have no clue who Nick Fuentes is. And if they heard his statements that he makes, they would want nothing to do with him. He sounds like a very immature young man saying hateful things about people," Greene said.
"And then also say, 'I'm not racist,' or 'I'm not these things.' Yeah, you are if you talk that way, because that's how you sound and I don't know why Kanye West would align himself with that."
Speaking to reporters in Washington D.C., Greene also said she had been unaware that her former congressional intern Yiannopoulos would be visiting Trump at his Florida home with West and Fuentes.
"I had no idea they were going down there [to Mar-a-Lago]. And I found out about it, basically, like everybody else did on Twitter," she said.
Greene has been contacted for comment.
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