Right-wing commentator Nick Fuentes has been charged with misdemeanor battery after a woman accused him of pepper-spraying her after she showed up at his doorstep.
Police arrested Fuentes and released him in late November for the incident. The woman told police he sprayed her and then pushed her onto the concrete outside his Illinois home. A police report said she had no visible injuries but that her eyes were “watery.”
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Fuentes caused an uproar earlier that month with a post on X that said: “Your body, my choice,” referencing the abortion-rights “my body, my choice” slogan.
Fuentes told police that since he “posted a political joke online,” he has received death threats and people have appeared at his house unannounced. He also told police he was “in fear for his life.”
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He will make his first court appearance on Dec. 19 in the case.
Fuentes has a prominent social media following and is known for being highly controversial. He was banned under Twitter’s previous ownership before Elon Musk reinstated his account.
He posted his mugshot on his X account along with a post that said, “Free me n***a.”
In 2022, Fuentes had a dinner with Donald Trump that was highly publicized and stirred controversy.
Trump suggested he did not mean to dine with Fuentes, but had a dinner with rapper Ye (formerly Kanye West) scheduled and he brought Fuentes. He said he didn’t know who Fuentes was.
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Democrats used the dinner to smear Trump, saying for any other political party, such an act would be “instantly disqualifying.”
Fuentes aligned with Trump more closely than Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election but did not endorse him. Before the election, he said he believed, “Without serious changes we are headed for a catastrophic loss.”
