Jewish Republicans are denouncing MSNBC for comparing erstwhile President Donald Trump’s historic Big Apple rally to a Nazi event, mocking nan left-wing web for its hysteria and posting pictures of themselves astatine nan run gathering.
More than 20,000 Trump supporters packed Madison Square Garden Sunday nighttime for a marathon rally featuring MAGA luminaries and capped disconnected pinch a rousing and bombastic reside by nan erstwhile president.
Many Jews were besides successful attendance, who person been taking to X to sound their outrage and rip nan web for its sloppy comparison.
“I’m Jewish. I went to nan Nazi rally. I’m voting for Trump. Any questions?” wrote 1 X personification successful a post viewed astir 900,000 times, complete pinch a image from wrong nan rally.
MSNBC has faced important criticism for its over-the-top sum of nan rally, including a conception wherever big Jonathan Capehart called nan MSG rally “chilling” while juxtaposing achromatic and achromatic footage of an infamous 1939 Nazi rally pinch unrecorded footage of Sunday’s event.
“In 1939, much than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader – Adolf Hitler – packed nan Garden for a alleged ‘pro-America rally,’” he said successful a wide panned broadcast, ignoring nan truth that nan archival clip was held successful a erstwhile loop of Madison Square Garden that wasn’t moreover successful nan aforesaid location.
Auschwitz subsister Jerry Wartski, 94, who besides attended nan alleged “Nazi rally,” slammed Vice President Kamala Harris for encouraging specified comparisons successful a video station connected X.
“I cognize much astir Hitler than Kamala will ever cognize successful a 1000 lifetimes. For her to impeach President Trump of being for illustration Hitler is nan worst point I’ve ever heard successful my 75 years of surviving successful nan United States.”
Other self-identified Jewish X users pressed for much specifics astir really precisely nan arena — which was attended by a divers crowd including achromatic people, cheery people, Asians, Jews, Latinos and much — could perchance beryllium construed arsenic a Nazi rally.
“Orthodox Jew here. Please explicate to each of america Orthodox Jewish Trump supporters (the immense mostly of Orthodox Jews) really it’s a ‘Nazi rally.'”
Another video posted by lifelong New Yorker Debra Lea viewed much than 1.1 cardinal times explained successful awesome item why nan network’s comparison is preposterous.
“There were truthful galore Jews there, conscionable for illustration myself, location [were] Israeli flags, and astir each azygous speaker talked astir their committedness to upholding nan narration betwixt US and Israel,” she said, wearing a Star of David pendant and a achromatic MAGA chapeau pinch orangish lettering.
“Not to mention each nan Latinos for Trump, Gays for Trump, and astir each different group that would ne'er person been allowed successful if this was really a Nazi rally.”
An X personification critiqued nan readiness pinch which truthful galore left-wing media consumers bought into nan comparisons.
“Not picking a governmental broadside here, but calling nan Trump rally a Nazi run is truthful anti-patriotic. There were galore races speaking astatine that run and nary of them were astir sidesplitting each nan Jews. Y’all mislaid successful this media propaganda.”
Pressed by a newsman astatine a run arena Tuesday, Democratic vice statesmanlike nominee Tim Walz — who took power for likening nan MSG rally to a Nazi gathering earlier successful nan week — offered a half-hearted, mealy mouthed double-down connected his incendiary rhetoric.
“I cognize what I saw, and I’ll time off it astatine that.”
At a run arena successful Coplay, Pennsylvania Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. expressed bewilderment astatine nan comparison.
“Trump astatine Madison Square Garden, location was erstwhile a Nazi rally location 90 years ago. What’s your point?” Trump Jr. changeable backmost from nan stump astatine a shooting scope successful purple Lehigh County.
“I deliberation Taylor Swift conscionable played Madison Square Garden,” he continued, to laughter from nan crowd. “Does that make her a Nazi?”