Nick Fuentes and his army of white supremacist followers played their first cards Friday in a self-declared “war” against former President Donald Trump.
“Tonight I declared a new Groyper war against the Trump campaign,” Fuentes wrote in an X post Friday night, referring to the nickname his fans have adopted.
“We support Trump, but his campaign has been hijacked by the same consultants, lobbyists and donors he defeated in 2016, and they are ruining it,” Fuentes said. “Without serious changes, we are headed for a catastrophic loss.”
Tonight I declared a new Groyper war against the Trump campaign.
We support Trump, but his campaign has been hijacked by the same advisers, lobbyists and donors he defeated in 2016, and they are ruining it.
Without drastic changes, we are heading for catastrophic loss.
— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) August 9, 2024
It's not the first time the neo-Nazi internet personality has spoken out against the former president. He railed against Trump earlier this summer, saying in a June broadcast: “I don't want him to submit to the Israel lobby.”
In May, he also said, “I think the whiners are going to stay home in November,” adding that many people he knows in the Trump campaign are becoming apathetic because they are “fighting the Jews,” as they did during Trump's term in the White House.
The anti-Semitic streamer, who dined with Kanye West and the former president at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022, is just the latest right-wing defection from Trump's camp in recent days.
Nick Fuentes joins conspiracy theorists Alex Jones and Ali Alexander at a “Stop the Steal” rally at the Georgia governor’s mansion shortly after the 2020 election.
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Joe Rogan told listeners on Wednesday that he would vote for RFK Jr., though he retracted his statement from Friday and insisted the comment did not constitute an endorsement.
Online conservative celebrity Kyle Rittenhouse also said this week that he was ditching Trump in favor of writing for former libertarian presidential candidate Ron Paul, but he also retracted that after consulting with the Trump campaign.
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