DEROY MURDOCK: I was at the Trump Madison Square Garden rally. MSNBC's take is absolutely nuts

"Breaking News," an MSNBC banner insisted connected Sunday night. "Trump's MSG rally comes 85 years after pro-Nazi rally at nan famed arena." The far-left network's breathless study featured chilling black-and-white footage of nan German American Bund's notorious National Socialist gathering, complete pinch swastika armbands and stiff-armed salutes.  

Referring to Trump's packed-to-the rafters arena astatine Madison Square Garden, MSNBC big Jonathan Capehart said: "But that jamboree happening correct now, you spot it location connected your surface successful that place, is peculiarly chilling because successful 1939, much than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, packed nan Garden for a alleged pro-America rally – a rally wherever speakers voiced antisemitic rhetoric from a shape draped pinch Nazi banners." When a Jewish protester rushed nan stage, Capehart explained, American large wind troopers yanked his apparel disconnected and hit him arsenic he cradled his caput successful his arms. 

Scary! But overmuch much than that, this is disgusting, vile rubbish. And – as luck would person it – this besides is spectacularly inaccurate.  

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The Nazi rally happened astatine nan aged Madison Square Garden astatine 8th Avenue and West 49th Street, location of today's Worldwide Plaza agency and unit complex. Trump and his supporters were not "in that place," arsenic MSNBC's misinformation claimed.  

Former President Donald Trump and erstwhile First Lady Melania Trump during a run arena astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York, connected Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

In fact, Trump's extravaganza was a mile south, astatine 8th Avenue and West 33rd Street, successful a venue that began hosting events successful 1968 – the aforesaid twelvemonth that nan aged MSG was demolished and turned into a parking lot. Not only was nan MAGA nation not on nan aforesaid defiled crushed arsenic that pre-World War II Hitlerfest. The installation successful question has not moreover existed for 56 years.  

The full premise of MSNBC's hyperventilation – and that of Hillary Clinton and different Trump haters – has collapsed for illustration an arena pummeled by a wrecking ball. Too bad these Trumpophobes didn't walk 5 minutes connected nan Google instrumentality to study astir MSG's 3 incarnations, nan first 2 of which were razed. Perhaps drowning Trump successful archival footage of swastika flags is conscionable excessively important to prosecute successful high-school-paper level fact-checking.  

The left's full Nuremberg-Rally-on-the-Hudson Big Lie suffers from much than conscionable a fatally flawed timeline. 

Trump's event, which I was pleased and proud to attend, bore nary resemblance whatsoever to nan 1939 occasion that has nan near soiling themselves successful fear. 

Rather than ferocious U.S. large wind troopers, I saw thousands of calm, cheerful men, women and children lined up from nan mediate of West 33rd Street and wrapped north and past eastbound astir 1 Penn Plaza – each nan measurement to nan mediate of West 34th Street. They peacefully and patriotically waited successful a cool autumn breeze to participate MSG.

Once wrong – arsenic acold arsenic I could show – nary Jews were yanked from nan shape and pounded into submission. Au contraire, Trump advisor Stephen Miller, Trump's friend and play partner Steve Witkoff, and Cantor Fitzgerald main Howard Lutnick were welcomed to nan stage. These Jewish gentlemen offered lukewarm and passionate words of support for Trump.  

The crowd – which filled each row, each nan measurement to nan apical aisle down nan podium –cheered and applauded these speakers pinch abundant enthusiasm. Miller, Witkoff and Lutnick were permitted to time off nan stage. All 3 were afloat dressed, and nary exhibited signs of beingness battle aliases trauma.  

In an moreover much melodramatic departure from Nazism, Congressman Byron Donalds, R-Fla., and Death Row Records Co-Founder Michael "Harry O" Harris addressed nan red-capped masses. These 2 Black men besides endorsed Trump, to nan tremendous restitution of nan mega-MAGA faithful. 

Attendees clasp signs during a run arena pinch erstwhile President Donald Trump, not pictured, astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York, connected Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Photographer: Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The juncture besides featured nan characteristically fiery-yet-eloquent words of former statesmanlike campaigner Vivek Ramaswamy – a Hindu distinctly lacking successful blond hairsbreadth and bluish eyes. Ramaswamy (much for illustration Miller) electrified nan assemblage pinch his stirring defense of Trump and his policies. 

The youngest awesome statesmanlike contender successful representation besides said that cheery Americans were invited successful nan MAGA tent, truthful agelong arsenic they agreed pinch Trump and his followers that men and boys have nary place in women's and girls' sports, and gender modulation should beryllium constricted to adults. "Gay matrimony is fine, but hands disconnected nan kids!" is simply a MAGA tenet that enjoys wide entreaty crossed nan ideological spectrum.   

The arena felt for illustration a one-day Republican National Convention. The excitement, power and camaraderie recalled one of those quadrennial nominating affairs. The speakers were besides of that caliber. They included, among others, erstwhile congresswoman and caller GOP person Tulsi Gabbard, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Hulk Hogan and Eric and Lara Trump.  

The GOP nominee's different boy was aghast astatine what ostentation did to his family's caller fast-food tab. " If Donald Trump Jr. has sticker daze astatine McDonald’s, we person a superior problem successful our country."

This juncture had its surreal qualities, governmental commentator Tucker Carlson noted. "Just different time pursuing Bobby Kennedy, Jr., astatine a Donald Trump rally successful Madison Square Garden ... Yeah, that's wholly normal!" 

Among nan speeches and snippets of classical stone tunes specified arsenic "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Sweet Child of Mine," nan run presented multiple new slogans connected screens and in videos and hallway displays. Many are 4 words long, for illustration Make America Great Again. They are caveman-simple, but direct, powerful, compelling and manly: 

• "Better Off pinch Trump"
• "Dream Big Again"
• "No Tax connected Overtime"
• "Make America Strong Again"

And my favorite: 

• "Trump Will Fix It."

Former statesmanlike campaigner Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a run rally for erstwhile President and Republican statesmanlike campaigner Donald Trump astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York connected October 27, 2024. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Melania Trump made a astonishment appearance, to present her husband. As Donald J. Trump yet took nan shape to a deafening ovation, Lee Greenwood serenaded nan erstwhile and possibly early First Couple pinch a unrecorded rendition of "I'm Proud to Be an American." 

Trump himself said positively and optimistically astir November 5 arsenic "Liberation Day" and promised a fascinating operation of awesome taxation cuts, deregulation, power liberation, Elon Musk and Howard Lutnick to lead a monolithic national budget-slashing effort, tariffs, and Golden Rule waste and acquisition argumentation (regarding world commerce, do unto different nations arsenic they do onto us). I telephone this supply-side protectionism. I for illustration nan first portion amended than nan second. If anyone tin fuse these 2 seemingly contradictory approaches, it would person to beryllium Donald J. Trump. 

Rather than a Thousand Year Reich, which Hitler promised Germany, Trump said warmly of "a caller aureate age."

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This juncture had its surreal qualities, governmental commentator Tucker Carlson noted. "Just different time pursuing Bobby Kennedy, Jr., astatine a Donald Trump rally successful Madison Square Garden ... Yeah, that's wholly normal!" 

The event's 1 sour statement was comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's ace astir an land made of garbage floating successful nan mediate of nan ocean: Puerto Rico. He was nan day's first speaker and appeared erstwhile MSG was astir half full. While nan remainder of his group was amusing, that statement drew appropriately fewer laughs and, instead, thing betwixt soundlessness and groans. Trump and his run person disassociated themselves from those remarks. 

It's a damn shame that Hinchcliffe is a noxious distraction from an different upbeat and bonzer arena successful modern politics. And Adolf Hitler would person hated nan full thing. 

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