Milo Yiannopoulos has has been relieved of his position in Kanye West’s 2024 presidential campaign, The Daily Beast reported.
“You and I came to the mutual conclusion that I should stay away from your political team,” Yiannopoulos wrote on his Telegram account on Sunday. “You are a genius whom I have come to love and respect. We are still friends. I will continue to pray for Ye and all his efforts.”
Yiannopoulos, described by the Anti-Defamation League as a “misogynistic, racist, xenophobic and transphobic troll,” was West’s informal campaign manager and one of the first people the rapper brought into what Kanye says is a legitimate campaign to President. Yiannopoulos’ stint as Kanye’s campaign manager followed his internship in Congress with far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene last summer.
Yiannopoulos recently took credit for hosting the now-infamous dinner between Trump, West, and white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. Yiannopoulos told NBC News that he was “the architect” of the plan for Fuentes to accompany him and West to Mar-a-Lago in the hope that Fuentes could participate in his dinner with Trump.
“I wanted to show Trump the kind of talent he’s missing out on by letting his terrible handlers dictate who he can and can’t hang out with,” he told NBC News, explaining why he arranged for Trump to meet Fuentes. “I also wanted to send a message to Trump that he has systematically and repeatedly neglected, ignored and abused the people who love him the most, the people who put him in office, and that kind of behavior comes back to bite you in the end. ”
Yiannopoulos added that he arranged the meeting “just to make life miserable for Trump.”
And it seemed to work. As soon as news of the dinner broke, Trump came under fire, including from members of his own party, for meeting with extremists like Fuentes and West. “He tried to fuck me. He is crazy. He can’t beat me,” Trump said of West and his political ambitions, according to an NBC source.
Despite announcing his intention to run last month, West has yet to file paperwork for the 2024 presidential campaign. The rapper launched an official run in 2020, garnering 60,000 votes in the 12 states in which he was on the ballot. . Last week, West proclaimed, “I like Hitler” and said, “We need to stop insulting Nazis all the time,” during an appearance on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars show. West has lost lucrative business partnerships, including a deal with Adidas estimated at $1.4 billion, due to his recent anti-Semitism.
Trump turned to Truth Social to defend himself over dinner. He said he was only trying to “help” West because he “has been decimated in his business and pretty much everything else.” West “has always been good to me,” Trump added.
The meeting was such a PR disaster that Trump’s team is reportedly ramping up security around the former president, including vetting everyone before he meets with them and assigning a member of his security staff. campaign to be with him at all times. They hope this will prevent him from accidentally breaking bread again with far-right extremists, or at least those not on the GOP’s approved ticket.
