By now, we are all very aware of Kanye West's recent bigoted comments, but
according to an exclusive report by CNN Kanye West's antisemitism isn't brand new.
It goes back a very long way because the rapper is apparently,
get this, long admired Adolf Hitler.
The details, let's get into it.
A business executive who worked for West who now goes by, Ye, good for him,
told CNN that the artist created a hostile work environment in part through
his obsession with Hitler.
He would praise Hitler by saying how incredible it was that he was able
to accumulate so much power and would talk about all the great things he and
the Nazi Party achieved for the German people.
The individual told CNN.
Four sources told CNN that West had originally suggested the title for
his 2018 album to be Hitler that was eventually released as, Ye,
so I guess those are interchangeable for him.
They did not want to be named, citing concern for
professional retribution from Hitler himself, I guess.
I mean, Ye, my mistake.
The next slide, Van Lathan Jr, a former TMZ employee recently claimed
on a podcast that West also made antisemitic comments during their
conversation the outlet did not release publicly, which is not okay to do.
You cannot keep platforming somebody, Tucker Carlson did this recently to
taking out antisemitic and racist statements somebody makes and
then keep the rest of the interview for ratings.
And let somebody who's a horrible poison to society get bigger and bigger but
let's continue.
The next slide as he collaborates, when Kanye came to TMZ, he said that stuff, and
they took it out of the interview.
He said something like, I love Hitler, I love Nazis,
something to that effect when he was there, and
they took it out of the interview for whatever reason, it was not my decision.
So obviously this has ignited a rampant wave of antisemitism all over Los Angeles,
all over the country and
has just brought this lovely topic into the news as a Jewish man.
Thanks so much, Kanye.
>> Yeah, so look guys, this is a dangerous stuff,
and what TMZ did and by the way,
is despicable, let's be clear about that.
So TMZ, they love scandals, all right?
They'll run with any scandal unless you're a powerful-connected celebrity, and you've
said something horrific, then they'll protect you for no reason, all right?
Well, for their own financial reasons, presumably, all right?
And that's disgusting.
So now this is several sources, different sources about different incidents
that are clearly saying, no, he very clearly said he admired Hitler.
Okay, over and over again, this guy is sick and so
no one should ever do business with a guy like this.
And guys, it isn't about him insulting Jewish people,
it's about anyone doing this to any race or ethnicity or religion.
We all have to stick together, the Anti-Defamation League did an amazing job
of sticking out for Muslims when Trump was talking about the Muslim ban, and
they jumped in and said, no, not on our watch, okay?
And I love them for it and I love them because that's what Americans do.
Real Americans, we protect our own, all right?
And our own is all of us, it's all of us.
>> And that same interview as a perfect example, they did keep in
what made headlines at that time was him saying slavery was a choice.
So you can just see this person as this horrible person who's not only have these
horrible beliefs, but
he's just always trying to capitalize on media attention for money.
These things made him a billionaire and amplified his power that much more.
The holocaust museum in LA tweeted @Ye after their invite to join them for
a tour tweeted yea since we invited you to visit us at the holocaust museum LA.
We have received a tremendous amount of social media messages and comments,
some filled with hate threats and vitriol.
Others were saddled with hurt and yearned for further discourse.
They tweeted again, Ye, you have over 30 million Twitter followers,
twice as many Twitter followers as the total number of Jews on earth.
You and anyone reading this can make a difference.
You can choose to join us in building bridges rather than tearing them down.
But he won't do that because you can't make money from building bridges.
You can't put your logo on it, you can't make baggy bridges, and
you can't call bridges fam, and try to make yourself even richer in the process.
Earlier this week, we told you how Adidas finally, after lots of pressure and
waited far too long dropped Kanye West after Kanye claimed he could
say antisemitic things.
And Adidas still would not drop him with a disgusting smirk on his face and
apparently not long after that the very next day Kanye went looking for
a new shoe based business partner.
Kanye showed up unannounced at Skechers corporate offices on Wednesday in
Manhattan beach California a day after Adidas terminated its multimillion dollar
partnership with the rapper.
A Skecher spokesperson confirms two Skechers executives escorted West and
his party from the building after a brief conversation as the fashion designer
was engaged in unauthorized filming.
I wonder if he wants attention from the media while tearing down entire groups of
people and putting their lives literally at risk.
Skechers is not considering and has no intention of working with West,
we condemn his recent divisive remarks and do not tolerate antisemitism or
any other form of hate speech.
The company would like to again stress that West showed up unannounced and
uninvited to Skechers corporate offices.
>> So Ben is making a great point, Kanye made a lot of money from grabbing
attention, and he likes to grab attention by doing hateful things.
I mean, he was apparently according to those sources seriously considering
naming his album Hitler because he thought, that'll be cool.
People will think that's so radical to love Hitler and hate the Jews and
maybe people get killed along the way, and
maybe I start a movement that reignites antisemitism.
But who cares, I'm making money, all right?
Well, good now you're not making money.
>> So let me share the best part of this story is that finally he's
really reaping true pain financially he's no longer a billionaire.
He still has many hundreds of millions of dollars, but
it's headed in the right direction at least downward.
And he was dropped by the following brands TJ Maxx, Balenciaga,
the one he had across his teeth, no longer.
I guess, take out that grill Kanye, sorry fam.
Gap and Footlocker have also cut business ties with the rapper and
his $15,000 per year private school Donde Academy has closed effective
immediately mid-school year according to an email sent out to parents.
The school will have to sign a nondisclosure agreement I guess so
that the hateful teachings don't get leaked to the public.
So the school does still plan to reopen in September 2023 when I'm sure he'll be
a really nice person and
should be the person in charge of your children's education.
So just wait, it'll be all good come September.
>> Yeah, I mean somebody rescues those kids.
This lunatic, Hitler lover is going to run a school,
he'd be nuts to send your kids to that school.
>> K through 12, imagine the indoctrination over all of those years.
>> Yeah, it's, no, and by the way, I mean, it's a terrible touch that he named
the school after his mom there by smearing his own mother's name with his own hatred.
I wouldn't put it on her, but that's what he did.
He smeared her name.
So look guys, we gotta stick together here.
We can't allow any of this to happen.
This is madness.
And so I believe in a very wide berth for free speech.
And so look, we have conversation.
We have debates,
we have disagreements here on this network between different holes.
We just had one yesterday and that's good.
And I don't like shutting down.
Some people sometimes say, yeah, well, I don't like your opinion.
I think your opinion should not be allowed.
That's not a thing.
Okay, so I'm in the camp of as much room as you can, all right?
But is there a limit?
Of course, there's a limit, of course.
So if one of our hosts was, yeah, I like Hitler or
one of our hosts defended someone who said, yeah, I like Hitler and
I think we should go death con three on the Jews.
No, that is way as a million miles outside of bounds and
if you think it's not outside of balance, there's something wrong with you man.
There's something really wrong with you if you think, that's just fun free speech.
No, it's not, it's horrific and at least the disastrous results.
It's already like the disastrous results.
The guys who did the synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh and in southern California,
remember those under trump, it's not trump's fault.
Well, kind of, he's both, there's good people on both sides.
He said after nazis marched after Nazis, literal nazis marched,
he said there's good people on both sides.
But anyway, they did the synagogue shooting those guys.
They say the same thing as Kanye, you know the guy who did it in Pittsburgh,
he had a manifesto that was very similar to what Kanye saying right now,
it literally gets people killed and his number one defender to this day in all
of media is candace Owens, he's, she did the white lives matter shirt with him,
she's getting him to buy parlor like a sucker and she's taking him for
all of his cash and robbing him in the meanwhile, but she's supporting him and
she said, I don't, I don't know what he means by death Con three on jewish people,
I can't figure it out.
Okay, so you're the dumbest person in America,
you can't figure out what death Con three on jewish people means like that.
You think that's subtle.
Is he pro jewish or anti jewish, I can't tell said the goddamn liar.
And can she also not figure it out when the holocaust museum said,
referencing the holocaust come to our museum and he said to me,
the holocaust is all the abortions that happened every year.
A man who pushed his own wife to have an abortion just a few years back.
And so it now jumps to holocaust denial as well.
So Ben Shapiro runs daily wire.
Candace owns works at Daily Wire.
So this is cool, you're okay with this.
This is what it's come to.
And and apparently Ben Shapiro is a okay with it because that's his actions,
that's his actions.
He says that's totally fine on my network or
you want to support a guy who loves Hitler and says that we should go death.
Death con three on jewish people.
Yeah, well, hey, welcome to work everybody.
Somebody get Candace some coffee.
Alright, well that's the decisions you're making Ben.
I hope you can live with it because other people aren't Shapiro just to be clear,
not bleed.
Yes.
There's some sick sick people in the world.
And it's spreading