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Marking final stretch of campaign in New York, Trump and cabal of surrogates attack Harris and mock Puerto Rico

Adam Gabbatt and Ed Pilkington at The Guardian:

Anger and vitriol took center stage at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday night, as Donald Trump and a cabal of campaign surrogates held a rally marked by racist comments, coarse insults, and dangerous threats about immigrants. Nine days out from the election, Trump used the rally in New York to repeat his claim that he is fighting “the enemy within” and again promised to launch “the largest deportation program in American history”, amid incoherent ramblings about ending a phone call with a “very, very important person” so he could watch one of Elon Musk’s rockets land. The event at Madison Square Garden, in the center of Manhattan, had drawn comparisons to an infamous Nazi rally held at the arena in 1939. Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ running mate, said there was a “direct parallel” between the two events, and the Democratic National Committee projected images on the outside of the building on Sunday repeating claims from Trump’s former chief-of-staff that Trump had “praised Hitler”.

There was certainly a dark tone throughout the hours-long rally, with one speaker describing Puerto Rico, home to 3.2m US citizens, as an “island of garbage”; Tucker Carlson mocking Harris’ racial identity; a radio host describing Hillary Clinton as a “sick bastard”; and a crucifix-wielding childhood friend of Trump’s declaring that Harris is “the antichrist”. The Puerto Rico comments, made by Tony Hinchliffe, a podcaster with a history of racist remarks, were immediately criticized by the Harris-Walz campaign. Ricky Martin, the Puerto Rican popstar who has more than 18m followers on Instagram, wrote in a post: “This is what they think of us. Vote for @kamalaharris.” Trump campaign spokesperson Danielle Alvarez in a statement said “this joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.”

But that could prove problematic in Pennsylvania, where the majority of the swing state’s 580,000 eligible Latino voters are of Puerto Rican descent. Both campaigns have been trying to appeal to Latino voters in the final weeks of the campaign, and Harris had visited a Puerto Rican restaurant in Philadelphia earlier on Sunday, where she outlined plans to introduce an “economic opportunity taskforce” for Puerto Rico. The pugnacious mood didn’t change once Trump began speaking, as the former president quickly repeated his pledge to “launch the largest deportation program in American history”.

Trump continued his frequent rants about immigration and claimed that a “savage Venezuelan prison gang” had “taken over Times Square”, which will come as a surprise to anyone who has recently visited the New York landmark. The former president also stated, wrongly, that the Biden administration did not have money to respond to a recent hurricane in North Carolina because “they spent all of their money bringing in illegal immigrants, flying them in by beautiful jet planes”. Trump’s usual dystopian threats were on offer, as the 78-year-old expanded on his claims about “the enemy within” – a group of political opponents that he has said he will set the military on if elected. “We’re just not running against Kamala. I think a lot of our politicians here tonight know this. She means nothing, she’s purely a vessel that’s all she is,” Trump said. “We’re running against something far bigger than Joe or Kamala and far more powerful than them, which is a massive, vicious radical-left machine that runs today’s Democrat party. They’re just vessels.”

[...] “There’s a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid-1930s at Madison Square Garden. And don’t think that he doesn’t know for one second exactly what they’re doing there.” The Trump campaign reacted furiously to the accusations, describing Clinton’s comments as “disgusting”. One of the few people to reference the 1939 rally on Sunday was Hulk Hogan, who emerged to wrestling music, spent several seconds struggling to rip off his shirt, then claimed: “I don’t see no stinkin’ Nazis in here”. After a night of fire and fury, it will be up to the American voters to decide.

The MSG Trump Rally in NYC on Sunday was nothing more than a modern-day Nazi rally for the brainwashed MAGA cultists, as Donald Trump and various MAGA hacks launched hateful racist, unhinged, and bigoted tirades.

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The Guardian: Racist remarks and playing to the base: key takeaways from Trump’s MSG rally

HuffPost: Fascist At The Garden

#Madison Square Garden #Donald Trump #2024 Presidential Election #2024 Elections #David Rem #Tony Hinchcliffe #Hulk Hogan #Sid Rosenberg #Tucker Carlson

This is the hard truth.

Dean Obeidallah at The Dean's Report (10.25.2025):

In a time of increased political violence, we’ve heard people on the right and the left loudly call for bringing down the heated rhetoric to avoid inciting a horrible attack against political figures. But apparently that does not apply to Muslims. That is the message I take from watching the bone-chilling spike in anti-Muslim hate being directed at New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee, Zohran Mamdani. This time, though, it’s by both Republicans and some Democratic officials. And let me be even more blunt, their goal at the point is no longer about defeating Zohran at the ballot box. No, their objective in dehumanizing Zohran and describing him as a terrorist is to incite violence so that Zohran never serves as mayor. I know that is jarring to hear—but it’s the truth. We are all adults. We get that the numerous Republican leaders and handful of Democratic figures spewing this bigotry see the same polls we do which tell us Zohran is leading his closest opponent by on average 17 points--with early voting starting today (October 25.)

Zohran is going to win and they know it. Yet like Donald Trump’s back up plan to overturn the 2020 election was his Jan. 6 violent attack on the Capitol, their back up plan is to incite violence to stop Zohran. If I’m wrong, the same people spewing the hate can make it clear there is no place for violence, denounce the dangerous hate they have spewed against Zohran and instead focus on policy issues. But I can 100% assure you they will not. There was of course anti-Muslim bigotry being directed at Zohran before this week. But in the past, it was exclusively from Republicans. Examples include New York GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik who in June labeled Zohran a “jihadist” while GOP Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee urged the Justice Department to denaturalize and deport Mamdani. And people like the late Charlie Kirk posted after Zohran won the nomination, “24 years ago a group of Muslims killed 2,753 people on 9/11. Now a Muslim Socialist is on pace to run New York City.”

But none of that compares to what we’ve seen in the past ten days--and especially 48 hours. GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik upped her vileness last week saying Zohran is “a full-blown jihadist who has called for the genocide of Jews.” GOP’s Larry Elder, who is radio host, shared on Twitter a cartoon depicting a red plane with the word “Mamdani” written on the side heading into a building that is reminiscent the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers. And on Wednesday, during the final mayoral debate, Curtis Sliwa, the Republican mayoral nominee accused Zohran of supporting “global jihad.”

Then came the Democrats. Democratic Rep. Laura Gillen, a Democrat from Long Island who has opposed Mamdani’s candidacy, said this week he was “pro-Hamas” and “unfit to hold any office in the United States.”

On Thursday, Andrew Cuomo—the disgraced former Democratic governor--appeared on WABC radio with Trump loving host Sid Rosenberg, who has in the past described Zohran as an “animal” and a “terrorist.” (Says so much Cuomo would go on a show hosted by an open anti-Muslim bigot.) During the interview, Cuomo stated, “God forbid, another 9/11 – can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?” Rosenberg replied, “He’d be cheering.” Cuomo said with a laugh, “That’s another problem.” The idea that a Muslim would cheer a 9/11 type terrorist attack is not a joke. It’s how you dehumanize Zohran and all Muslims. In reality, more than 1,000 Muslims currently serve in the NYPD protecting the people of New York City on a daily basis. But Cuomo didn’t push back—he instead agreed because he believed it scored him political points to join in the anti-Muslim hate. On Thursday, a super PAC supporting Cuomo—funded in part by Trump/Netanyahu supporting Bill Ackman-- began running an advertisement featuring a photo of Zohran smiling with an African American imam as the words “Jihad on NYC” passed on the screen.

Then came current NYC Mayor Eric Adams-a Democrat—who on Thursday endorsed Cuomo by directly linking Zohran to Islamic terrorists. Adams first mentioned how disappointed he was that he couldn’t be the one taking on Zohran. Then he went full anti-Muslim bigot stating about Zohran, “New York can’t be Europe, folks.” He continued, “I don’t know what is wrong with people. You see what’s playing out in other countries because of Islamic extremism.”

The right-wing Islamophobic smear campaign against Zohran Mamdani is about inciting violence against him.

#Zohran Mamdani #Islamophobia #New York City #2025 Mayoral Elections #2025 Elections #Andrew Cuomo #Bill Ackman #Sid Rosenberg #Laura Gillen #Curtis Sliwa #Larry Elder #Andy Ogles #Elise Stefanik #Eric Adams

Donald Trump is doubling down on his bizarre attack that Kamala Harris “doesn’t like Jewish people”—despite her being married to noted Jewis

Walter Einenkel at Daily Kos:

Donald Trump is doubling down on his bizarre attack that Kamala Harris “doesn’t like Jewish people”—despite her being married to noted Jewish person Doug Emhoff.

During an appearance on New York’s WABC radio, Trump targeted Harris for supposedly being anti-Jewish and anti-Israel. “She dislikes Jewish people and Israel even more than Biden did,” the former president said. It was the second time in less than a week that Trump used this line in an apparent effort to gain support from Jewish voters. “[Harris] is totally against the Jewish people,” he said during a campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, last week. On Tuesday, Trump also used the radio appearance to take issue with Harris’ meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu during the Israeli prime minister’s visit last week. "When she stood up with him, she wanted to get out of there so fast you could see the disdain,” Trump said. “No. 1, she doesn't like Israel. No. 2, she doesn't like Jewish people. You know it, I know it, everybody knows it, and nobody wants to say it.” “They have let Jewish people down since Obama at levels that nobody could believe possible,” Trump said.

Appearing on WABC’s Sid and Friends In The Morning radio show Tuesday, serial antisemite Donald Trump pushed the dangerous lie that VP Kamala Harris “doesn’t like Jewish people” despite the fact that her husband Douglas Emhoff is a Jew.

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