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After a White House meeting Tuesday, McCarthy was asked to weigh-in on the week-old controversy, which has finally, belatedly, drawn GOP responses. But while sharply criticizing Fuentes and his ideology, McCarthy falsely claimed that both Trump and another big-name Republican who appeared with Fuentes, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), had “denounced” Fuentes.
That’s not true in either case. And in one case in particular, McCarthy should be well aware of that fact.
Appearing at the White House, McCarthy said of Fuentes: “I don’t think anybody should be spending any time with Nick Fuentes. He has no place in this Republican Party. I think President Trump came out four times and condemned him, and didn’t know who he was.”
Trump has in fact not condemned Fuentes. Indeed, as with many fringe figures he has cozied up to, Trump has rather conspicuously declined to do so — apparently fearing that it could turn off a portion of his base, however large that portion is…
McCarthy’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for examples of Trump supposedly denouncing Fuentes…
How deliberate is that revisionism? Look no further than the other person McCarthy on Tuesday falsely claimed had “denounced” Fuentes: Greene.
“She denounced him,” McCarthy said curtly when asked about Greene…
In February, Greene became the second GOP lawmaker in two years to appear at Fuentes’s America First Political Action Conference. Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) had appeared the year before and drew condemnations, but that apparently didn’t dissuade Greene from doing the same a year later… What’s more, Greene in a lengthy Twitter thread tweeted a video of her appearance and defended it.
