Joy Reid, Puerto Rican Archbishop Nieves, And Boston College History Professor Review Trump's Porcine Filth-Fest At Madison Square Garden /// And "60 Minutes" Segment On Polling Place Integrity

 

Alan: There is no better way to understand Trump's up-to-the-minute passion for cruelty, vulgarity, disrespectfulness, racism, misogyny and compulsive mendacity than watching the following Joy Reid video segment.

Trump's Madison Square Garden Rally

In this video clip, Joy Reid reviews Trump's Closing Argument at his "Fall Filth Fest"

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-nyc-rally-speakers-insult-puerto-ricans-black-americans-kamala-harris-222918213930

Follow-up commentary concerning Trump's Madison Square Garden rally, by Puerto Rico's Archbishop:

Here is San Juan, Puerto Rico Archbishop Roberto Gonzalez Nieves' "Open Letter" to Ex-president Donald Trump, asking him to personally apologize for comments made by comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe at his Madison Square Garden "Filth-Fest."

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1091034849696330&set=pcb.1091014499698365

Last Night's opening segment on "60 Minutes" was superb.

"60 Minutes" Investigates "Election Truth" With Special Emphasis On Voting Results In The State Of Georgia In 2020

https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/l9ssbr1nXXvmOxooWfoeBgKHGrNgNE23/

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"Letter From An American": History Professor Heather Cox Richardson 

October 29, 2024

Heather Cox Richardson

Oct 30, 2024

Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump offered Americans his closing argument in the 2024 presidential race on Sunday, October 27, at Madison Square Garden. At a rally that evoked a Nazi rally at the old Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939, Trump’s warm-up acts set the terms of Trump’s final pitch to voters by calling Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean” and railing against “f*cking illegals.” They called Vice President Kamala Harris “the Antichrist” and “the devil,” and called former secretary of state Hillary Clinton “a sick son of a b*tch.” When Trump took the stage about two hours late, he echoed the warm-up acts, and then reiterated that he believes fellow Americans are “the enemy within.”  

The racism and fascism Trump’s MAGA Republicans displayed at Madison Square Garden is usually expressed within their media bubble, where it passes for normal conversation. The backlash against it among people in the real world appears to have shocked the Trump campaign so much that the candidate is running away from his own closing argument. 

On Monday, Trump felt obliged to tell an audience in Georgia, “I’m not a Nazi.” The Trump campaign has made it a point never to apologize and never to explain, but on Monday it broke that rule, trying to distance itself from performer Tony Hinchcliffe’s comments about Puerto Rico. 

This morning, Trump announced he would hold a press conference at Mar-a-Lago. He showed up more than an hour late for the assembled press, then began the event by undermining faith in the election, claiming the campaign is going “very well; there are some bad spots in Pennsylvania where some serious things have been caught or are in the process of being caught,” although it was unclear what he meant. 

He went on to deliver such a litany of lies that CNN cited them as a reason to cut away from the speech. Trump chose not to acknowledge the offensiveness of the Madison Square Garden event, saying ““The love in that room, it was breathtaking—and you could have filled it many many times with the people that were unable to get in.”