Donald Trump has occasionally admitted that he lost the 2020 election, and that is pissing off some of his ultra-right supporters. White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, who Trump hosted for dinner (along with Ye, formerly Kanye West) at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Fla., is livid.
According to USA Today’s Sarah D. Wire, “At least three times in recent weeks Trump, the 2024 Republican party nominee, has acknowledge that he lost in 2020 ‘by a whisker.’”
"So, why did we do Stop the Steal? Why did anyone go to Jan. 6? Why did any one go to jail? ... It would have been good to know that before 1,600 people got charged," Nick Fuentes said on his podcast, referring to the criminal charges for those who invaded and ransacked the Capitol. "It would’ve been good to know that before (I) had all my money frozen, put on a no-fly list, banned from everything, lost all my bank and payment processing.”
Multiple reports have pointed out that ever since the 2020 election, Trump has falsely claimed he was the victim of election fraud and that he really won. He tried to pressure officials and lawmakers into overturning the results so he could stay in power despite losing, and sent an angry mob to the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of the vote. Trump and his 2020 allies are facing criminal charges in multiple jurisdictions over those efforts.
Now that he’s changing his tune has understandably angered his most ardent supporters on the far right, especially those who participated in the January 6 insurrection. “Fuentes noted that if Trump knows that he lost the 2020 election, then he ‘deserves to be charged’ by special counsel Jack Smith for his efforts to overturn the results of the election,” Right Wing Watch reported. “That actually vindicates the DOJ charge against him!” Fuentes declared. “Because the charge is that he knew he lost but he lied to defraud the people.”
It remains to be seen if any of those already serving time for the Capitol invasion speak out against Trump!
