An attorney is vehemently denying that he made a call to Donald Trump that caused the former president’s dinner last week with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West to go sour.
White nationalist Nicholas Fuentes, who had dinner with Trump and Ye, told InfoWars host Alex Jones on Thursday that Ye accidentally sent a text message to lawyer Nicholas Gravante—who legally represents Trump and former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg.
Gravante formerly represented Ye in a legal capacity.
“Mr. Gravante made no such call to Mr. Trump or anyone in his organization or orbit,” a spokesperson for Gravante told Newsweek. “Any suggestion to the contrary is patently false.
“As has been widely reported, Mr. Gravante ended his representation of Ye after Ye made antisemitic comments in October.”
Fuentes claimed that Ye had intended to text him before the dinner commenced, though actually texted former Trump aide Karen Giorno—who was also present at the dinner as one of Ye’s guests.
The forwarded text that Fuentes claimed went to Gravante included “intel that Karen gave to us about how we were going to have the Trump meeting, how to read his body language and the kinds of things that maybe we should avoid, or things we might want to say,” Fuentes told Jones.
Fuentes alleged that the mistake led to Gravante calling Trump mid-dinner and informing him the meeting was a “set up” propagated by Giorno—who worked as a former Trump senior adviser and Florida chief strategist in 2016.
Fuentes said Trump “got the heads up they thought it was some big ambush,” adding that when Trump got off the call with Gravante his “tone totally flipped.”
The Post Millennial previously reported that Giorno corroborated Fuentes’ recollection on Tuesday in a Twitter Spaces hosted by the account Crypto Lawyer.
Giorno, who had previously connected with conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopolous while working as a consultant on former far-right candidate Laura Loomer’s campaign, said she sat to Trump’s right at dinner.
She said that Yiannopolous told her she was essentially used by Ye and Fuentes.
“Milo said that he arranged the dinner ‘just to make Trump’s life miserable,’” Giorno said, referencing a quote Yiannopolous told NBC News’ Mark Caputo. “He was hoping that news of the dinner would leak and Trump would mishandle it. Nick Fuentes echoed that statement. And he said, ‘I hate to say it, but the chickens are coming home to roost.’”
The Ye-Fuentes appearance with Jones on Thursday made bigger headlines, as Ye continually made pro-Hitler and anti-Jewish claims and statements. Aside from saying the Nazis “did good things, too,” Ye also mocked Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu.
Fuentes acted in Trump’s defense, saying that the pair were not actually vilifying the Jewish community as a whole, adding that “there are Jewish practices that are based on Jewish law, and there is clearly some kind of a Jewish mafia.”
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