John Legend has accused former President Donald Trump‘s team of conducting a scam by backing Kanye West‘s failed run for the White House in 2020.
The rapper and designer, 45, announced his presidential bid on the Fourth of July, 2020—revealing that he was running as an Independent under the “Birthday Party”—after publicly expressing his support for then-President Trump.
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Amid the fallout from his ill-fated campaign, West saw his friendship with fellow musician Legend, 43, become strained, which the singer addressed last month during an appearance on The Axe Files with David Axelrod podcast.
Addressing how his comments were reported on at the time, Legend told The New Yorker that “what it got described as was, we stopped being friends because he supported Trump, which was a mischaracterization of what I said.”
“What I was saying was that he was very upset with me that I didn’t support him running for President, and that was the real impetus for us having a strain in our friendship,” he said.
“I don’t know what will happen in the future, but he was very upset with me that I didn’t support him and I supported Joe Biden. It’s up to him whether he can…
