Joe Biden Condemns Antisemitism After Kanye Outburst: ‘Silence Is Complicity’

President Joe Biden called connected “political leaders” to “reject antisemitism wherever it hides” aft Kanye West claimed the Holocaust “didn’t happen” and praised infamous German dictator Adolf Hitler in a caller quality connected conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars podcast. The Commander-in-Chief took to his Twitter connected Friday, Nov. 2 to condemn the hateful rhetoric, writing, “I conscionable privation to marque a fewer things clear: The Holocaust happened. Hitler was a demonic figure.”

I conscionable privation to marque a fewer things clear:

The Holocaust happened.

Hitler was a demonic figure.

And alternatively of giving it a platform, our governmental leaders should beryllium calling retired and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides.

Silence is complicity.

— President Biden (@POTUS) December 2, 2022

Biden besides appeared to reference Donald Trump’s recent dinner with Kanye and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. “And alternatively of giving it a platform, our governmental leaders should beryllium calling retired and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides,” Biden explained, concluding, “Silence is complicity.”

The fiery connection came a time aft the “Famous” rapper made his bizarre quality connected Jones’ show, wherever helium said he’s “not a Nazi,” but exclaimed, “I spot bully things astir Hitler also.” He added, “I emotion everyone, and Jewish radical are not going to archer me, ‘You tin emotion america and you tin emotion what we’re doing to you with the contracts.'”

Wearing a full-face disguise successful black, Kanye continued to spout antisemitic conspiracy theories and his evident emotion for the Third Reich. “Every quality being has thing of worth that they brought to the table, particularly Hitler,” helium said, earlier appearing to support the Nazi person and his followers. “They did bully things too. We got to halt dissing the Nazis each the clip I emotion Jewish people, but I besides emotion Nazis.”

Joe Biden called retired antisemitism successful what appeared to beryllium a effect to Kanye West’s caller tirade. (Mega)

Shortly aft Kanye’s podcast appearance, helium took to his ain Twitter relationship and shared an representation of a swastika wrong an representation of the Star of David. For the 2nd clip successful little than 2 months, Kanye was past kicked disconnected Twitter, this clip by his sometimes BFF Elon Musk, who precocious purchased the platform. After a Twitter idiosyncratic begged Elon to “fix Kanye,” the CEO billionaire responded, “I tried my best. Despite that, helium again violated our regularisation against incitement to violence. Account volition beryllium suspended.”

Meanwhile, the nighttime earlier sending disconnected his Twitter slam of antisemitism, Biden was capable to bask his glamorous State Dinner. The lawsuit was marked arsenic an effort to revitalize U.S. ties with France, arsenic some President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, First Lady Brigitte Macron, were successful attendance. And the enactment was busting astatine the seams with glitterati including John Legend & Chrissy Teigen, Jennifer Garner, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and more. Check retired the pics here!