Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden this Sunday is a reenactment of the famous 1939 pro-Nazi rally held there, said Hillary Clinton.
Clinton was speaking to Kaitlan Collins on CNN when she made the remarks, on Thursday evening.
“One other thing that you’ll see next week, Kaitlan is Trump actually reenacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939,” Hillary said.
“President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that Neo-Nazis, Fascists, in America were lining up to essentially pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany. So I don’t think we can ignore it,” she said.
Crooked Hillary, increasingly bitter about the fact that she will never be president, says that everybody who attends President Trump's rally at MSG on Sunday is a Nazi. pic.twitter.com/7cUXIlNuor
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 25, 2024
More than 20,000 people attended the 1939 rally, which was organized by the German American Bund, an American counterpart to the German National Socialist Workers’ Party. The event was billed as a “pro-American” rally, and featured a huge portrait of George Washington flanked by swastikas. Large numbers of protestors gathered outside the event, behind a police cordon. The leader of the Bund, Fritz Julius Kuhn, would be arrested soon after, and the group itself fell into swift decline.
Clinton’s comments follow the mainstream media’s latest attempt to smear Trump ahead of the election, in less than two weeks. The Atlantic ran a hitpiece in which former Chief of Staff John Kelly claimed Trump praised Hitler on a number of occasions in private.
Among other things, Trump is alleged to have said he wished he had “the kind of generals that Hitler had.”
Vice President Kamala Harris held an unscheduled press conference to denounce Trump for his supposed admiration of Hitler.
The Trump rally will take place at 5pm EST this Sunday. The event, which sold out in three hours, will be used to frame a formal “closing argument” for the campaign, as election day draws near.
“The Madison Square Garden event that we have a week from tomorrow will be the formal introduction of the closing debate that we’re going to have here, the closing framing of this race, the choice between the two candidates,” Jason Miller, Trump’s senior advisor, told reporters at a Trump rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.