Social media personality and Holocaust minimiser Candace Owens has been booked to appear at a Trump campaign fundraiser later this week.

The Donald Trump supporter and former Daily Wire contributor is set to speak at a VIP fundraiser with the former president’s son, Donald Trump Jr. 

The event, sponsored by a cryptocurrency firm, is billed as a VIP Meet & Greet with Trump Jr. in the US city of Nashville and costs as much as $5,000 to attend

Speaking on an episode of The Candace Show entitled “Literally Hitler. Why can’t we talk about him?”, Owens described Holocaust education as indoctrination.

The Combat Antisemitism Movement called Owen’s comments “utterly repugnant”, adding: “It is an established fact that SS officer Josef Mengele performed deadly experiments on Jewish twins during the Holocaust,” they said on social media. “Not 80 years later [Candace Owens] tries to rewrite history by denying these depraved acts ever happened”.

Owens also ranted about how “factually and statistically” Hitler was not the greatest evil of his time.

Responding to the backlash, Owens hit out at the “Zionist media”. “The reason why this particular episode is so detrimental to Zionism is because they have polluted American minds to believe that we must defend Israel out of morality and the evils of the Holocaust,” she said.

Arsen Ostrovsky, CEO of the International Legal Forum, wrote on social media that Owens “has totally lost the plot and gone full-blown neo-Nazi”.

Owens used to work for Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire, a Conservative news blog that held strong Zionist and pro-Israel positions.