It was "appalling" that former President Donald Trump hosted a white supremacist at his Mar-a-Lago club, according to a former GOP congressman.
Dent, a moderate who served in the House from 2005 to 2018 and backed President Joe Biden over Trump in the 2020 presidential election, told CNN's Jim Acosta it was "inexcusable" for Trump to have dined with the man.
After the rapper made antisemitic remarks last month, he came to the South Florida resort with a friend to talk with Trump.
Trump lost to Biden in the White House race in 2020 but recently launched his campaign for president.
Dent, a former chairman of the House Ethics Committee, was less than impressed by Trump's statement, where the former president called the dinner " quick and uneventful" and said Ye "un expectedly showed up with three of his friends whom I knew nothing about."
He would have dinner with a white nationalist, antisemite, and a man with a lot of baggage, and that's not right. The congressman said it was appalling.
It's incumbent on the Republican establishment to stamp this kind of element from within the GOP once and for all. The John Birch Society got rid of these extreme elements. There needs to be a lot of work done. The ugly historical connotations of the 'America First' movement have been forgotten by a lot of our fellow citizens.
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