Thread by @KassyAkiva

1/ For the past decade, I have chosen to ignore Nick Fuentes and his false claims about me. Following our private falling out in early 2017 — when we were both college students — he began routinely attacking me publicly and using the situation to portray himself as a victim.

These claims are not true, and it’s time to set the record straight.

2/ Nick says I was “a fellow” at The Daily Wire when I first met him. False. I didn’t start working at The Daily Wire until two years later when I graduated from college.

3/ I never told Nick he had job offers following his debate. I was livestreaming his debate where he said basic mainstream conservative views. I told Nick he did well and interviewed him as a student journalist.

4/ Nick says I asked him about Israel after the debate since I had just studied abroad there. Not true. I don’t even remember asking him about Israel — and I didn’t study abroad there until three months after we met. But I had just visited there and was interested, especially after hearing him talk about foreign policy during the debate.

5/ Nick and I did not fall out over Israel. We fell out because I thought he was being unnecessarily nasty to people. In fact, I encouraged him to write more about his views on Israel so I could better understand them.

6/ No, I didn’t call Nick antisemitic when we fell out. I told him I disagreed with how he was going after conservatives — using personal insults like “cuck” instead of debating ideas. Antisemitism never came up.

7/ I never sent Nick’s clips to Media Matters. They were already monitoring RSBN’s content, as anyone can see from the articles they published about the network during that time. They targeted other shows in 2017 too — it wasn’t just his.

8/ Why did I ignore him? Because he has an obsession. There were times when he would talk about me every day. Now it seems it’s almost every interview. But this doesn’t surprise me. He has sold shirts with my face on them, and continuously posted about me — without me ever responding — for nearly a decade.

9/ This includes the tweet that got him first banned from X: not over Israel, but over sending me something that could be taken as a death threat.

“To forgive thots is up to God but to send them to him is up to me.”

10/ I suppose I was hoping Nick would get over his friendship breakup with another college student. Instead, he’s fixated on it and morphed the tale several times since. Early versions included him suggesting we had a sexual relationship, which is absolutely not true — something he now admits.

11/ Nick has been retelling this story recently to attack Ben Shapiro and claim that being “betrayed by friends” somehow radicalized him. It’s never been true, but he keeps twisting it — adding new layers to cast himself as a victim. I’m done letting him smear my name.

12/ The truth is: we were both college students excited about politics. Our tactics and views didn’t align and we stopped being friends. He went on one path; I on another, once I realized what he stood for and how he operated.

13/ Nick has made a career out of dissembling about his beliefs. He did it with me when he acted as a mainstream conservative but turned out to be quite radical. He soft-peddles his views depending on the audience.

14/ But let’s be real: Nick never needed a “villain’s origin story,” nor is he some sort of victim. He is a grown man who thinks everyone who doesn’t give him attention is mean and bad. I feel sorry for him, and I hope he finds some measure of happiness in his life at some point.