Republicans denounce comparison of 27 October event to notorious 1939 rally made by Democrats and Jewish leaders
Donald Trump’s decision to hold a rally in the heart of Manhattan on 27 October, nine days before election day, has been slammed by New York Democrats, with one comparing the booking to an infamous Nazi rally held at the same venue in the lead-up to the second world war.
But it has also triggered a backlash to such sentiments, with Republicans saying such rhetoric heightens tensions even more in a presidential election campaign which has already seen two attempts on Trump’s life.
The Democratic state senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, whose district includes much of the west side of Manhattan where a date on Trump’s “arena tour” rally has been booked at Madison Square Garden, called on venue owners to cancel the event.
“Let’s be clear,” Hoylman-Sigal wrote on X. “Allowing Trump to hold an event at MSG is equivalent to the infamous Nazis rally at Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939.”
Hoylman-Sigal was referring to a pro-Hitler rally, organized by the German American Bund, that was attended by more than 20,000 people and featured a portrait of George Washington flanked by swastikas. Many attendees came from Yaphank, Long Island, where the Bund was headquartered and had a summer camp teaching Nazi ideology.
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I think Americans dont understand that at this point everything that comes out about Trump is so negative that is causing certain kind of empathy, people should know when to stop. Im not saying that he is right or wrong but this holy war every single day at all times is very annoying. Sincerely an European
That’s how I read that.
If you are that polarized you need a brain brother, things are not black and white as you try to put them. But i got you, its the easy way “with me or against me”, that’s the kind of thinking of a true dictator
We’re not concerned with what Europeans think when it comes to stopping the rise of fascism in our country or really anything, for that matter. Ya’ll are hypocrites. Signed, an American.
At this point all your, as a country, focus is hating the other part, what do you think the outcome will be? No matter who win the election if things dont scale down