put the swastika on a T-shirt,” referring to West selling a Nazi symbol emblazoned on a T-shirt online last week.Shopify took down the rapper’s website over the shirt last Tuesday.
The stunt capped a four day blitz of tweets where he claimed “Hitler was sooooo fresh,” “I’m a Nazi,” said antisemitism is “just some bulls – – t Jewish people made up,” and “Any Jewish person that does business with me needs to know I don’t like or trust any Jewish.”“His memory is so messed up this point,” the former employee told The Post, explaining that Kanye would forget conversations and even people he worked closely with within a few days span.“You can kind of just convince [West] of things and he doesn’t really fact check them.
You can just say something that is not true, but if you say it with enough conviction at the right time he’ll believe it.”However, the ex-employee was also clear to add it doesn’t excuse his behavior and “no one forced him to tweet.”West, who has officially changed his name to Ye, also recently re-enlisted far right radical Milo Yiannopoulos, 40, as his manager after previously firing him last year.Last August Yiannopoulos accused dentist Thomas Connelly of getting the rapper addicted to Nitrous Oxide – which is not an illegal substance, although in California it is an offense to buy it “with the intent to inhale” – in a sworn affidavit filed with the California Dental Board.“Connelly got Ye hooked on nitrous – laughing gas.
It is my belief that Connelly sought to diminish Ye’s mental faculties so that Connelly and his business associates could extract millions of dollars from him,” Yiannopoulos claimed in a series of posts on X last August, which included the affidavit.The Post has reached out to Connelly for.
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