MSNBC Slammed for Airing Nazi Rally Clips From 1939 While Covering Trump Madison Square Garden Rally

MSNBC is facing heavy backlash after it aired clips from a pro-Nazi rally in 1939 while covering former President Donald Trump’s rally in New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday. “They’re going to get someone killed,” one social media user said of the network.

An MSNBC anchor suggested Trump is a “fascist” on Sunday evening, calling the 45th president’s Madison Square Garden rally “particularly chilling,” before noting that a pro-Nazi took place in the arena almost 100 years ago.

“In 1939, more than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, packed the Garden for a so-called pro-America rally, a rally where speakers voiced antisemitic rhetoric from a stage draped with Nazi banners,” the MSNBC anchor bizarrely stated.

The network then proceeded to use its airtime to describe attacks from the 1939 pro-Nazi rally, while an image of Trump’s rally on Sunday was displayed on the screen, which could likely confuse any listener who may have tuned in at that moment.

“When a Jewish protestor rushed the stage, the Associated Press reported, ‘Instantly, a dozen or more Storm Troopers set upon him, knocking him down and beating him as he held his head in his arms. Most of his clothing was torn from his body. Later, he was booked for disorderly conduct,’” MSNBC said of the 1939 rally while the image of Trump was displayed.

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