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The Fallout From Trump’s Hate Rally at Madison Square Garden Is Still Growing
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The Fallout From Trump’s Hate Rally at Madison Square Garden Is Still Growing

The consequences of his decision to hold a racist rally in America’s largest blue city are spreading like wildfire. The lurid MSG event may turn out to be a historically disastrous political blunder.

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Trump's Rally Was a Desecration of Madison Square Garden | The Nation

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The New York Times calls what was intended as the biggest event of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign for President of the United States—an event that was supposed to be his closing argument in the campaign—“revolting” and “nothing short of a disaster.”

It’s difficult to dispute that assessment.

For those counting at home, the 2024 Trump campaign has now given at least eight different explanations for how Trump’s opener at Madison Square Garden this past weeked, Tony Hinchcliffe, ended up giving a wildly racist, misogynistic, anti-semitic, Islamophobic speech that had been fully entered into his Trump campaign-provided teleprompter by the Trump campaign beforehand. Here are those eight explanations, none of which now appear to be true:

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