MSNBC joins Dems in smearing Holocaust survivor, other Trump supporters at Madison Square Garden as Nazis

MSNBC, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and other Harris allies smeared a Holocaust survivor and tens of thousands of other Americans who attended President Donald Trump's high-energy campaign event Sunday at Madison Square Garden, characterizing them as today's equivalent of Nazis and fascists.

Despite the efforts of New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal and other radical Democrats to shut down the event and a campaign by Lincoln Project false-flaggers to empty the stands, a diverse crowd filled the Garden to hear from numerous speakers, including former first lady Melania Trump, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Hulk Hogan, and Tony Hinchcliffe — a comedian who appears to have broken leftists' thin skin with his usual cutting humor.

Trump, exuding the joy his opponent once laid claim to, spoke of the dormancy of American greatness during the Biden-Harris years and the prospect of its return and maximization if he wins a second term.

While the crowd of tens of thousands appeared receptive to the speakers' remarks, Democrats and their media allies descended into fits of hysteria, leaning hard into preplanned Nazi comparisons and more of the incendiary rhetoric that set the stage for two known assassination attempts.

MSNBC went the distance for the Harris campaign in its coverage of the event, effectively smearing the multitudes in attendance — including Trump's numerous Jewish supporters and even a Holocaust survivor — as Nazis and fascists.

In a segment captioned, "Trump's MSG rally comes 85 years after pro-Nazi rally at famed arena," MSNBC talking head Jonathan Capehart said that the event was "particularly chilling because in 1939, more than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, packed the Garden for a so-called pro-America rally — a rally where speakers voiced anti-Semitic rhetoric from a stage draped with Nazi banners."

MSNBC juxtaposed clips of a Nazi rally with footage from Trump's event at the Garden.

'I know more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know in a thousand lifetimes.'

Capehart — who refrained from noting that the Democratic Party held its national conventions at the Garden in 1976, 1980, and 1992 — then appealed to anti-Trump historians Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Anne Applebaum for help smearing Trump and his supporters as Nazi parallels.

Steve Benen, the producer of "The Rachel Maddow Show," similarly likened the Sunday campaign event to a Nazi rally, writing, "The Republican’s Madison Square Garden event was ugly. It was offensive. It was vulgar. It was hateful. It drew obvious parallels to the 1939 event."

Time magazine, which again demonstrated its aversion to the truth last month, released an article ahead of the rally titled "How the Trump Rally at Madison Square Garden Follows a Long Tradition in Politics," emphasizing that Nazis once gathered where Trump supporters would soon rally.

Jerry Wartski, a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor who survived Auschwitz and the Nazis' death marches, was among those at the rally smeared by MSNBC and other Democratic propaganda outfits.

Wartski noted in a recent video, "Adolf Hitler invaded Poland when I was 9 years old. He murdered my parents and most of my family. I know more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know in a thousand lifetimes. For her to accuse President Trump of being like Hitler is the worst thing I've ever heard in my 75 years of living in the United States."

The Holocaust survivor appears to have singled out Harris because of her suggestion at a recent CNN town hall that Trump is a fascist and previous insinuations on the same theme.

The Nazi narrative embraced Sunday by MSNBC began in earnest earlier this month when Hoylman-Sigal wrote on X, "Let's be clear. Allowing Trump to hold an event at MSG is equivalent to the infamous Nazis rally at Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939."

At the time, Blaze News senior editor and Washington correspondent Christopher Bedford noted, "A better comparison might have been Young Americans for Freedom's 1962 Madison Square Garden Rally, when those teenagers organized well over 18,000 attendees, and more outside, for a rally against global communism."

"New York liberals were shocked then how many of the kids rejected their tired ideas, but guys like Hoylman-Sigal don't actually know any history, so they just prove their own intolerant bigotries by calling for anyone who opposes their own tired ideas to be shut down," added Bedford.

Hoylman-Sigal was later aided in his narrative campaign by failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who — apparently happy to forget her husband's 1992 rally at the Garden — told CNN that Trump would be "re-enacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939."

'They are a collection of hypocritical, mentally unstable children.'

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz soon joined in, saying, "There's a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid-1930s at Madison Square Garden and don't think that he doesn't know for one second exactly what they're doing there."

The Democratic National Committee even projected Nazi accusations onto the Garden's exterior on the day, claiming, "Trump praised Hitler."

DNC spokesperson Abhi Rahman noted on X, "@TheDemocrats are reminding voters that Americans can’t afford Trump’s unstable and unwell behavior — even at his own rallies."

Critics of the apparently coordinated Nazi smear suggested that the media was not only agitating for violence but diminishing the true horror of the Holocaust and the evil of the Nazis for political gain.

Manhattan Institute fellow Ilya Shapiro noted, "Those who liken Trump to Hitler and the MSG rally to the Nazi rally aren't just smearing Trump, but minimizing Hitler/Nazis - which, given the antisemitic nature of the progressive left, may well be the point."

"INCITEMENT," wrote the popular X user @amuse. "Yesterday's Trump rally was filled with Americans from every walk of life including orthodox, conservative, reform, and secular Jews. I saw a woman in a burka. It wasn't an anything like a Nazi rally. Shame on MSNBC."

Dr. Simon Goddek tweeted to MSNBC, "You deserve to be canceled to the core."

Some users shared images of John F. Kennedy and other former presidents speaking at the Garden, while others asked whether the Knicks might be Nazi-like for playing at the venue.

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk wrote, "Never mind that JFK and FDR both spoke at the same arena. Nope, those speeches were fine, because they were Democrats. Now, they're rewriting the rules so that big political rallies in a big city is 'Nazi' behavior. The left call themselves 'the adults in the room,' but they are the exact opposite. They are a collection of hypocritical, mentally unstable children. They cannot be allowed to hold power."

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