MSNBC is facing criticism after using images of Nazi demonstrations alongside Donald Trump’s historic rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. The left-leaning network included footage of a Nazi demonstration in 1939 in New York alongside images of Trump at the same location.
This is what MSNBC said about the Nazis and Trump
"But that rally that is happening now, which you see on the screen in that place, is particularly chilling because in 1939, more than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, filled the Garden for a supposed pro-United States demonstration," said the network through its host Jonathan Capehart. The former president "is once again turning Madison Square Garden into a stage for extremism," Capehart added.
What did the Nazi Party do in New York?
In February 1939, the American Nazi Party rally at Madison Square Garden gathered 20,000 people before the start of World War II. MSNBC wrote that “Trump, among other things, condemned Americans he disagreed with as 'the internal enemy,' while describing the media as 'the enemy of the people,' a phrase that echoed, among others, Joseph Stalin."
Tim Walz also referred to Trump and the Nazis
In addition to the MSNBC network, Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota and Democratic candidate for vice president, shared his thoughts at an event in Henderson, Nevada.
"There is a direct parallel with a major rally that took place in the mid-1930s at Madison Square Garden," he added that the former president knows perfectly well what he is doing: "And don't think for a second that he doesn't know exactly what they are doing there," Walz said.
"So, look, we said that we are all running as if everything is at stake because it is, it is," Walz said.
"And I have been saying for the last three months or so that there will be plenty of time for all of us to sleep when we are dead. Now is not the time, now is not the time."