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By Matthew Impelli
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Conservative influencer Nick Fuentes refused to endorse former President Donald Trump on Thursday following the Republican National Convention (RNC).
The former president delivered his first speech at the RNC on Thursday evening in Milwaukee since the assassination attempt against him over the weekend.
"I'm not a Republican and I don't care that much and I'm not going to turn out," Fuentes said on his livestream on Thursday, which was hosted on Rumble, after the RNC concluded. "I don't even really care. I'm not energetic, I'm not enthusiastic...I'm not leaving my house to vote. Vote for what? For JD Vance and Usha. I'm not voting for this, I'm not lending my credibility to this."
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He added: "As a real conservative, as a real right-wing American, you could not force me to care about this. You could not bribe me to care. I don't care. I don't even want to look at it anymore."
Newsweek has reached out to Trump's spokesperson via email for comment.
Trump's keynote speech closed out the RNC as he formally accepted the GOP's nomination for the 2024 election. At one point during his speech, the former president stood next to a mannequin dressed in a firefighter's uniform in honor of former fire chief Corey Comperatore who was shot and killed at Trump's campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
On Thursday evening, Trump spoke about the assassination attempt against his life where 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks fired a shot at him while he was delivering a campaign speech in Pennsylvania. Trump suffered an injury to his ear while Crooks was later killed by the Secret Service. Two other rally goers were injured in the shooting as well.
While concluding his speech, as the convention crowd chanted "win," Trump promised to "save this country" and "usher in the rich and wonderful tomorrows that our people so truly deserve."
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Fuentes gained notoriety after attending the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. During a livestream, Fuentes compared the mass genocide carried out during the Holocaust to baking cookies in an oven, Newsweek previously reported. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) describes him as a "white nationalist livestreamer who advocates pulling the Republican Party further to the extreme far-right end of the political spectrum."
In 2022, Trump faced widespread criticism for a dinner he had with rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. The former president defended himself, saying at the time that he "knew nothing about" Fuentes before the dinner.
Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late-Senator John McCain, said in 2022 that the dinner Trump had showed that he is "completely unfit to run for president."
"The problem isn't Trump having dinner with a white supremacist Holocaust denier. That's who Trump is. The problem is REPUBLICAN SILENCE after finding out Trump had dinner with a white supremacist Holocaust denier," former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh, once an ardent Trump supporter, tweeted at the time about the dinner. "Regarding Trump, Republican silence has always been the problem."
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