MSNBC is facing fierce backlash for using Nazi rally clips during its coverage of former President Donald Trump’s historic campaign event at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.
The left-leaning network included footage from the 1939 Nazi rally at the New York City arena and compared it to Trump’s own rally, which packed out the famed venue.
“But that jamboree happening right now, you see it there on your screen in that place is particularly chilling because in 1939, more than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, packed the Garden for a so-called pro-America rally,” the anchor said while rolling the footage.
The juxtaposition of the two videos was blasted as “shameful” by conservatives, who pointed out the diversity of the crowd.
“Yesterday’s Trump rally was filled with Americans from every walk of life including orthodox, conservative, reform, and secular Jews. I saw a woman in a burka. It wasn’t an anything like a Nazi rally. Shame on MSNBC,” wrote X user @amuse.
Others pointed out that Holocaust survivor Jerry Wartski was among those in attendance.
Critics even went so far as to accuse the network of “incitement.”
Tesla founder Elon Musk, who spoke at the rally, also blasted MSNBC as the “scum of the Earth” on X.
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