Former US President Donald Trump’s campaign on Thursday launched a scathing attack on Hillary Clinton for accusing the Republican candidate of seeking to “reenact” an Nazi rally held at New York City’s Madison Square Garden 85 years ago.
Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt condemned Clinton’s remarks.
“Hillary Clinton is so messed up from her raging 8-year-long case of anti-Trump derangement syndrome that she forgot SHE did an event at Madison Square Garden when she was a Senator, and her husband Bill accepted the Democrat nomination there,” Leavitt said in a statement.
“Putting aside her hypocrisy, Hillary’s rhetoric about half of the country is disgusting,“ she added.
Kaelan Dorr, a former Trump administration official also argued that Clinton’s rhetoric is an insult to the survivors of Adolf Hitler’s atrocities.
“This is deeply disturbing rhetoric that is not only irresponsible to use against someone who’s survived multiple assassination attempts. It demonizes half of the country,” Dorr wrote on X.
“And it belittles the pain of actual holocaust survivors,” he added. “Kamala will lose. Just like this nasty woman.”
The reactions came after former New York senator and secretary of state alleged that Trump is actually reenacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939.
“Sadly, here in America, the term fits,” Clinton said. “And you know, one other thing that you’ll see next week, Kaitlin, is Trump actually reenacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939,” Clinton said after telling CNN host Kaitlin Collins that she believes Trump, 78, is a “fascist.”
A massive turnout is expected for Trump’s first-ever rally at the Big Apple’s iconic arena.
The MSG event will be held on Sunday – nine days before Election Day.
The venue hosted the Democratic National Convention in 1924, 1976, 1980 and 1992, as well as the Republican National Convention in 2004.