New York: Former US vice president Mike Pence says his ex-boss Donald Trump has “demonstrated profoundly poor judgment” and called on him to apologise after the former president had dinner last week with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist and the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.
“President Trump was wrong to give a white nationalist, an anti-Semitic and Holocaust denier, a seat at the table and I think he should apologise for it. And he should denounce those individuals and their hateful rhetoric without qualification,” Pence said in an interview with NewsNation’s Leland Vittert.
Trump launched his third campaign for the White House earlier this month.
Still, Pence, who is considering his own potential presidential run, said he did not believe Trump was anti-Semitic or racist and said he would not have served as Trump’s vice president if he was.
“But I think the president demonstrated profoundly poor judgment in giving those individuals a seat at the table and as I said, I think he should apologise for it,” he added. “He should denounce them without qualification.”
Trump had dinner last Tuesday at his Mar-a-Lago club with West, who is now known as Ye, as well as Nick Fuentes, a far-right activist with a long history of anti-Semitic and white nationalist commentary.
Read the article by Jill Colvin in The Age.