Nick Fuentes and his army of white supremacist supporters played their opening hand in a self-proclaimed “war” against former President Donald Trump on Friday.
“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 that he defeated in 2016, and they’re blowing it,” Fuentes continued. “Without serious changes, we are headed for catastrophic loss.”
Tonight I declared another Groyper war against the Trump campaign.
We support Trump, but his campaign has been hijacked by the same consultants, lobbyists and donors he defeated in 2016, and they’re blowing it.
Without serious changes, we are headed 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 on a broadcast in June: “I don’t want him to be beholden to the Israel lobby.”
In May, he also said “I think the groypers will be sitting at 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 tenure in Trump. 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 the Trump camp in recent days.
Nick Fuentes joins conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Ali Alexander, during a “Stop the Steal” rally at the Governor’s Mansion in Georgia, shortly after the 2020 election.
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Joe Rogan told listeners Wednesday that he would vote for RFK Jr. – even if he walked back his statement on Friday and insisted the comment was not an endorsement.
Conservative darling Kyle Rittenhouse also said this week he was abandoning Trump in favor of writing in former libertarian presidential candidate Ron Paul — but also backtracked after consulting with the Trump campaign.
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