Politics & Government
La Grange Park Admitted Racist Says He Was In Crash
He last made big headlines when he met with President Donald Trump.
LA GRANGE PARK, IL – Nicholas Fuentes, the nationally known white supremacist who grew up in La Grange Park, said Thursday he got into a "bad car accident."
He said he would probably have no podcast until Monday at least.
"I'm okay!" he wrote on the Telegram social media app.
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About an hour later, he wrote, "Thank you everybody for the prayers and kind words."
It was unclear where the crash was. Records showed last year that Fuentes moved away from his parents' La Grange Park house to Berwyn.
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Fuentes, a 2016 Lyons Township High School graduate and studend body president, last made big headlines in November. He dined with former President Donald Trump and rapper Kanye West, now known as Ye, at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
In a podcast in 2021, Fuentes said Trump was "awesome" because he was racist and sexist. But he lamented Trump was not antisemitic.
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