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Criticism continues to pour in after the former president hosted a meeting at Mar-a-Lago with Kanye West, who has gone on an antisemitic rampage of late, and his associate Nick Fuentes, one of the US’s most notorious white supremacist activists – and it seems top Jewish Republicans are turning against the former president.

One leader of a right-wing pro-Israel lobby group told The New York Times that “Donald Trump is not an antisemite. He loves Israel. He loves Jews. But he mainstreams, he legitimizes Jew hatred and Jew haters. And this scares me.”

Meanwhile, a federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump’s claim that he has “presidential immunity” from a lawsuit about his actions around the 2020 election – in the latest blow to the former president as the fallout over a meeting with Kanye West and a white supremacist continues.

Civil rights groups including the NAACP are suing Mr Trump and the Republican National Committee for trying to disenfranchise voters, intimidate election officials and undermine lawfully cast votes in violation of both the federal Voting Rights Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act.

While Mr Trump’s lawyers claimed that he has “absolute immunity”, DC District Judge Emmet Sullivan disagreed.

Show latest update Pence: Trump showed ‘profoundly poor judgement’ by dining with Nick Fuentes
Donald Trump’s former No 2 defended the ex-president from accusations of antisemitism in a new interview this week, but condemned his decision to meet with one of America’s most prominent racists and Holocaust deniers at Mar-a-Lago alongside rapper Kanye West.

Mike Pence said that his former boss should apologise and called the meeting “wrong” — though the former president has denied knowledge of Nick Fuentes or his views, he has nevertheless faced criticism for not listening to aides who told him the dinner was a mistake and for agreeing to meet with Mr West as well given his recent antisemitic comments.

Former vice-president denied criticisms that Donald Trump is antisemitic

John Bowden29 November : GOP Senators are starting to grapple with Trump, Kanye and Nick Fuentes
Instead of confronting a littany of problems facing the US Congress in the lame duck session, Senate Republicans have found themselves stuck in a time warp, spending Monday evening having to answer for former president Donald Trump’s misdeeds, writes Eric Garcia for The Independent.

This time around, the disaster is his dinner with white supremacist and antisemite Nick Fuentes and rapper-turned-professional bigot Ye, formerly known as Kanye West.

It’s an eerie flashback to the days of Mr Trump’s first campaign and presidency, when Senate Republicans were obliged to answer for every outrageous tweet, egregious insult or outright lie he told.

“If the reports are true and the president didn’t know who he was, whoever allowed them in the room should have been fired,” Senator Thom Tillis said this week

John Bowden29 November : Kevin McCarthy takes Trump’s side over Nick Fuentes meeting
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke to reporters on Tuesday and took former President Donald Trump at his word over his claim that he did not know white nationalist broadcaster Nick Fuentes before Fuentes appeared at dinner with Mr Trump and Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago.

The Republican House leader had not issued a statement about the meeting between a former president and one of the US’s most prominent racists until he was asked by reporters about the issue on Tuesday after he left the White House following a meeting with Joe Biden and other members of congressional leadership.

John Bowden29 November : Supreme Court defends Alito in face of leak allegations
A letter from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Hank Johnson pressed Chief Justice John Roberts to answer questions about alleged breaches after a former anti-abortion activist with an influential lobbying group told the court that powerful donors leaked a ruling from a major contraception case after they dined with Justice Alito.

Supreme Court attorney Ethan Torrey did not answer the letter’s questions about that alleged leak or the leak of a draft opinion in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the June decision to overturn Roe v Wade.

“There is nothing to suggest that Justice Alito’s actions violated ethical standards,” Mr Torrey wrote on 28 November.

Top Democrats says the court’s latest response is ‘an embodiment of the problems at the court around ethics issues’ after justice is accused of leaking major contraception case in Andrew Naughtie29 November : Rubio: Fuentes is an ‘a** clown’ and a ‘disgusting person’
Senator Marco Rubio had a particularly aggressive rebuke of Nick Fuentes, one of America’s most infamous white nationalists and antisemites, on Monday after former President Donald Trump faced another day of questions and criticism surrounding the Mar-a-Lago meetup with Mr Fuentes and rapper Kanye West.

The Florida Republican made the comment to CNN, telling the network that Mr Fuentes “is a purveyor and a spreader of an evil, poison”.

“I hope he will [condemn Fuentes],” Mr Rubio continued. “Because I know he’s not an antisemite. I can tell you that for a fact that Trump is not, but this guy is evil. And that guy’s just a nasty, disgusting person. He’s an a** clown.”

Florida senator headlined rally alongside Trump days before midterms

Andrew Naughtie29 November : Incoming GOP congressman condemns Fuentes
As many Republican members of Congress keep quiet about Donald Trump’s dinner with Nick Fuentes and Kanye West, Mike Lawler, one of the new class of GOP representatives who won the party its ultra-narrow majority, has weighed in on the row in unsparing terms – albeit without mentioning Donald Trump’s name.

Mr Lawler is something of a hero in the House GOP conference having unseated DCCC chair Sean Patrick Maloney in a redrawn New York district.

Andrew Naughtie29 November : Trump to keep up Twitter lawsuit despite reinstatement
The lawyer representing former president Donald Trump in the lawsuit he filed after he was previously banned from Twitter has said he will not drop the case despite having been reinstated to the platform by the company’s new owner, Elon Musk.

Attorney John Cole told Bloomberg News that Mr Trump will continue to appeal the case’s dismissal by a California federal judge unless the company enters into an agreement to formally settle the lawsuit.

The twice-impeached ex-president filed the lawsuit in July 2021, six months after then-CEO Jack Dorsey announced that Mr Trump’s account had been permanently suspended from the platform in the wake of the January 6 attack on the Capitol. His account has now been reinstated, but he has yet to use it, preferring instead to stick with Truth Social despite its dramatically smaller user base and limited reach.

Mr Trump’s account is once again active on the site but the ex-president has not yet used it

Andrew Naughtie29 November : Analysis: GOP Senators tentatively call out Trump on Fuentes
In today’s Inside Washington dispatch, Eric Garcia reports from Capitol Hill, where he and other reporters have been asking Republican Senators to weigh in on Donald Trump’s antisemitic dinner party last week:

> Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who has mainly been focusing on getting the Respect for Marriage Act over the finish line, vocally denounced the meeting.

“First, I honestly didn’t know who he was,” he told The Independent. “If the reports are true and the president didn’t know who he was, whoever allowed them in the room should have been fired.”

This new willingness among many Republicans to condemn the former president began to show itself after the midterm elections. Several of Mr Trump’s endorsed candidates flopped in winnable races, arguably costing his party the Senate and limiting its House majority to a mere handful of votes. (Side note: The batch of failed Trump endorsements makes a convenient alibi for those who don’t want to blame the overturning of Roe v Wade). The fact other Republicans, like Ron DeSantis, are looking ever more viable for a 2024 race means a convenient off-ramp could soon be in sight.

Read the full analysis below.

“If the reports are true and the president didn’t know who he was, whoever allowed them in the room should have been fired,” Senator Thom Tillis said this week

Andrew Naughtie29 November : Trump furious at coverage of midterms humiliation
Donald Trump’s unhappy morning on Truth Social continues with this rant about people blaming him in whole or in part for the Republican Party’s mortifying shortfall in the 8 November midterms.

It’s worth noting that even if the Trump-backed Herschel Walker wins next week’s Georgia runoff, the GOP will still have failed to make a net gain in the Senate – and that it was Dr Mehmet Oz, a key Trump endorsee, who failed to keep Pennsylvania’s open seat in Republican hands.

Andrew Naughtie29 November : Trump awake and truthing…
Donald Trump is clearly in a foul mood today, at least if the state of his Truth Social feed is anything to go by. Along with launching an all-caps screed against mail-in voting and sharing a video in relation to false claims of malfeasance in Arizona’s Maricopa County, the former president has also kicked off about the security of the US’s southern border – and launched a particularly bilious rant directed at Karl Rove, complete with Trumpian misspelling at the end:

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