Jewish Republicans are denouncing MSNBC for evaluating former President Donald Trump’s historic Huge Apple rally to a Nazi occasion, mocking the left-wing community for its hysteria and posting photos of themselves on the marketing campaign gathering.
Greater than 20,000 Trump supporters packed Madison Sq. Backyard Sunday evening for a marathon rally that includes MAGA luminaries and capped off with a rousing and bombastic speech by the previous president.
Many Jews have been additionally in attendance, who’ve been taking to X to voice their outrage and rip the community for its careless comparability.
“I’m Jewish. I went to the Nazi rally. I’m voting for Trump. Any questions?” wrote one X consumer in a submit seen almost 900,000 occasions, full with an image from contained in the rally.
MSNBC has confronted important criticism for its over-the-top protection of the rally, together with a phase the place host Jonathan Capehart referred to as the MSG rally “chilling” whereas juxtaposing black and white footage of an notorious 1939 Nazi rally with stay footage of Sunday’s occasion.
“In 1939, greater than 20,000 supporters of a special fascist chief – Adolf Hitler – packed the Backyard for a so-called ‘pro-America rally,’” he stated in a extensively panned broadcast, ignoring the truth that the archival clip was held in a earlier iteration of Madison Sq. Backyard that wasn’t even in the identical location.
Auschwitz survivor Jerry Wartski, 94, who additionally attended the so-called “Nazi rally,” slammed Vice President Kamala Harris for encouraging such comparisons in a video submit on X.
“I do know extra about Hitler than Kamala will ever know in a thousand lifetimes. For her to accuse President Trump of being like Hitler is the worst factor I’ve ever heard in my 75 years of residing in the US.”
Different self-identified Jewish X customers pressed for extra specifics about how precisely the occasion — which was attended by a various crowd together with black folks, homosexual folks, Asians, Jews, Latinos and extra — might probably be construed as a Nazi rally.
“Orthodox Jew right here. Please clarify to all of us Orthodox Jewish Trump supporters (the overwhelming majority of Orthodox Jews) the way it’s a ‘Nazi rally.’”
One other video posted by lifelong New Yorker Debra Lea seen greater than 1.1 million occasions defined in nice element why the community’s comparability is preposterous.
“There have been so many Jews there, similar to myself, there [were] Israeli flags, and almost each single speaker talked about their dedication to upholding the connection between US and Israel,” she stated, sporting a Star of David pendant and a black MAGA hat with orange lettering.
“To not point out all of the Latinos for Trump, Gays for Trump, and almost each different group that might by no means have been allowed in if this was really a Nazi rally.”
An X consumer critiqued the readiness with which so many left-wing media shoppers purchased into the comparisons.
“Not choosing a political aspect right here, however calling the Trump rally a Nazi marketing campaign is so anti-patriotic. There have been many races talking at that marketing campaign and none of them have been about killing all of the Jews. Y’all misplaced on this media propaganda.”
Pressed by a reporter at a marketing campaign occasion Tuesday, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz — who took warmth for likening the MSG rally to a Nazi gathering earlier within the week — supplied a half-hearted, mealy mouthed double-down on his incendiary rhetoric.
“I do know what I noticed, and I’ll depart it at that.”
At a marketing campaign occasion in Coplay, Pennsylvania Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. expressed bewilderment on the comparability.
“Trump at Madison Sq. Backyard, there was as soon as a Nazi rally there 90 years in the past. What’s your level?” Trump Jr. shot again from the stump at a capturing vary in purple Lehigh County.
“I believe Taylor Swift simply performed Madison Sq. Backyard,” he continued, to laughter from the gang. “Does that make her a Nazi?”
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