When former President Donald Trump’s campaign announced it would be holding a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Democrats and their close friends and allies in the activist media pounced on the opportunity to further their “Trump is a Nazi/Fascist/Hitler” narrative.
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Folks on the left claimed Trump chose that venue supposedly to reenact a Nazi rally that was held at the arena in 1939. But, as usual, there’s a problem: A large number of Jewish people showed up at the event to support the former president.
During a Thursday appearance on CNN, failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton chimed in on the rally, claiming the former president is “actually re-enacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939” and saying, “I don’t think we can ignore it.”
“President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo-Nazis, fascists in America were lining up to essentially pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany. So I don’t think we can ignore it.”
Clinton also urged the audience to “open your eyes to the danger that this man poses to our country, because I think it is clear and present for anybody paying attention.”
“Now, it may be a leap for some people and a lot of others may think, ‘I don’t want to go there. I don’t want to say that.’ But please open your eyes to the danger that this man poses to our country, because I think it is clear and present for anybody paying attention.”
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These people are beyond evil. And the fact Kamala is rolling out Hillary Clinton, who Trump DESTROYED in 2016, shows just how desperate she’s gotten. They’re in scorched earth mode!
The New York Times published a piece highlighting the history of the venue and noting that the NYPD is prepared for potential violence – perhaps as a result of feckless Democrat shills pretending Trump is the second coming of Adolf Hitler.
But much of the commentary this weekend can be expected to focus on another historical antecedent, from 1939, when more than 20,000 people, many wearing Nazi armbands, filled the Garden for a “Pro America Rally” in support of Adolf Hitler. The Garden was then at its third of four locations, at 50th Street and Eighth Avenue.
Mr. Trump’s rally comes just days after John F. Kelly, his longest-serving chief of staff, said that the former president fit the definition of a fascist. Mr. Trump, on his Truth Social platform, called Mr. Kelly a “total degenerate” and “LOWLIFE.”
At the 1939 rally, at least 10,000 protesters packed the streets, kept away from the arena by a record 1,700 policemen. “We have enough police here to stop a revolution,” the police commissioner, Lewis J. Valentine, said.
Yet, footage circulating on social media shows members of Jews for Trump attending the rally to prop up the former president. Apparently, they didn’t get the memo about the former president being “literally Hitler.”
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The Democrats’ desperate attempt to downplay the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany to score cheap political points against the Orange Man What Is Bad™ has been criticized by Republicans and Democrats alike. As we reported, New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently defended the former president.
Mayor Adams defended Donald Trump Saturday against recent bombshell allegations by a former White House aide that the former president is a “fascist” who said positive things about Adolf Hitler and his Nazi generals.
“I have had those terms hurled at me,” Adams said at a press conference at police headquarters in Manhattan on security efforts for Trump’s Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden.
“I know what Hitler has done and I know what a fascist regime looks like. Trump has nothing to do with either,” he said, referring to reports former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly said the former president told him “Hitler did some good things” and expressed admiration for the loyalty of his Nazi generals.
Earlier in the press conference, Adams had implored New Yorkers to “to take down the temperature.” Rather than causing “problems” in the city, he urged New Yorkers to participate in the democratic process by voting.
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As I always say, none of the talking heads and politicians claiming Trump is a fascist actually believe it. They are simply using the specter of Hitler to smear their most hated political opponent. None of these people would have uttered a word complaining about President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris holding a rally at Madison Square Garden if they chose to do so, which is why they look like circus clowns by using this hackneyed tactic.