Texas Republicans Caught Attending Fundraiser With White Nationalist - Ring of Fire

Republicans in Texas were caught attending a fundraiser with wealthy donors, but there was one person who showed up that caught reporters' attention. That person happens to be white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who entered the conference area where the fundraiser was being held and stayed for more than 5 hours. The Republican lawmakers who attended the meeting pretended that they don't agree with anything Fuentes says and that they wouldn't be caught dead hanging out with him, but here we are. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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Last week, Republicans in the state of Texas were busted attending a fundraiser with wealthy Republican donor, Jonathan Strickland, and who happened to be in attendance, but none other than white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Now the chair of the Georgia, uh, excuse me, Texas Republican Party, Matt Rinaldi was there at this little bitty fundraiser and Rinaldi swears, like I told, I didn't, I wasn't hanging out with Nick Fuentes. I don't associate with these people. He said, quote, we were just borrowing a conference room. Uh, uh, uh, I, I, I completely condemned that guy in everything he stands for. I would never in a million years meet with that guy. Never in a million years, huh? Y'all just happened to be in the same conference room, right? Just totally coincidence. Oh, no, it white nationalist accidentally wandered in and stayed for almost six hours, by the way, because according to the reporters, they were alerted to the presence of Nick Fuentes at this conference center at 11:00 AM That is when Nick Fuentes went in there.

Nick Fuentes then left at 5:00 PM So you do the quick time math there. Six hours. Nick Fuentes was present at this event. Now, granted, Rinaldi himself, the chair again of the Texas Republican Party was only there for about 45 minutes. How long do you need with a white nationalist, right? Maybe you left because you saw him after 45 minutes, you're like, oh, holy crap, I gotta get outta here. Here's, here's the issue here. This is a major Republican donor. It doesn't matter that the other, you know, Republican lawmakers who showed up, it doesn't matter that the Republican party chair was there. All that matters was that the white nationalist was there with a high profile Republican donor at his event. Oh, and by the way, Kyle Rittenhouse was also there for some reason too, as if that guy's 15 minutes of fame haven't been up for several years at this point.

But Fuentes was there. Fuentes stayed for six hours according to the reports. At no point as far as we know was Fuentes asked to leave by anybody in charge or by anybody in attendance. I mean, being there for six hours kind of shows that, Hey, this guy's welcome this guy might be one of us, right? You know, I kind of miss the days when Republicans would, would hide their white nationalism, you know, the racism in the closet, pretend it didn't exist. But you know, still secretly legislate based on that. I mean, it was still horrible, but at least it wasn't out in the open. I don't know, actually, maybe it is better now that it's out in the open. They're not even trying to hide it anymore. It doesn't matter if Rinaldi does in fact stand against everything that Nick Fuentes stands for. Nick Fuentes stands for everything that the Republican Party stands for, and that is what they should be more concerned about. Not that, oh, I don't wanna be seen with a white nationalist. You should be asking yourself as a party, why does a white nationalist feel so at home with our donors and our lawmakers? That is the question Republicans need to ask themselves, but of course they never will. 'cause they know the answer.