Trump claims Harris runs 'a campaign of absolute hate' following backlash to Madison Square Garden rally

With 1 week left till Election Day, erstwhile President Donald Trump is firing backmost astatine Vice President Kamala Harris and her squad for spreading "a run of demolition and absolute hate." 

"Very simply, Kamala Harris is nan worst Vice President successful history...Her connection to Americans is each section and hate," Trump captioned successful a video connected his societal media platform, Truth Social.

"My connection is astir redeeming our economy, securing our border, and bringing together nan top and broadest conjugation successful American history," Trump continued.

The erstwhile president addressed a room of supporters astatine his Mar-a-Lago property connected Tuesday, hours earlier Harris was group to present what her run has described arsenic her closing reside connected nan Ellipse extracurricular nan White House, wherever she is expected to impulse nan state to move nan page connected Trump. 

‘AMPED’ UP ANTI-TRUMP RHETORIC IS ‘ALL’ THE HARRIS CAMPAIGN HAS WITH THE ELECTION A WEEK AWAY

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned successful Georgia and Michigan, respectively, connected Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/Evelyn Hockstein)

"She’s moving connected a run of demoralization, and really a run of destruction. But really, possibly much than thing else, it’s a run of hate. A run of absolute hate," Trump said. "I said yesterday that she’s a vessel. She is simply a vessel. It’s a very large powerful statement pinch smart group … but they’re vicious, and they’re possibly moreover trying to destruct our country."

"After 2 assassination attempts successful conscionable complete 3 months, her lies and her slanders are very shameful and really inexcusable," Trump described, referring to nan attempts connected his life.

Much of nan media unloaded connected erstwhile President Trump's historical Sunday nighttime rally astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York City, claiming it mirrored a Nazi rally astatine nan celebrated venue successful nan 1930s contempt an abundance of Jewish attendees and Israeli flags. Democrats including erstwhile President Bill Clinton person besides held events astatine nan famed arena. The NBA's New York Knicks play their location games astatine Madison Square Garden. 

TRUMP'S LIFE ALLEGEDLY THREATENED BY PENNSYLVANIA MAN BEFORE RALLY

Former US First Lady Melania Trump applauds her hubby erstwhile US President and Republican statesmanlike campaigner Donald Trump aft he said astatine a run rally astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York, October 27, 2024. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) (Getty Images)

Thousands of Trump supporters packed nan "World’s Most Famous Arena" to perceive remarks by high-profile speakers, including an reside from erstwhile first woman Melania Trump, earlier nan erstwhile president took nan stage. But alternatively of watching a Republican nominee drafting a monolithic crowd successful nan mediate of a bluish metropolis only 9 days earlier nan election, wide pundits followed Vice President Kamala Harris’ lead of labeling Trump a fascist and comparing him to Adolf Hitler. 

MSNBC put a spotlight connected nan venue being wherever a pro-Nazi rally occurred successful 1939, moreover though MSG has been rebuilt respective times and nan existent summation wasn’t moreover completed until 1969. The web declared Trump’s arena was "particularly chilling" because it was held successful nan aforesaid arena that erstwhile hosted supporters of "a different fascist leader, Adolf Hitler."

Then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt held an arena astatine Madison Square Garden nan twelvemonth aft nan infamous 1939 event. 

Retired NYPD Inspector Paul Mauro called it "ridiculous" to equate Trump's rally pinch what went connected astatine MSG successful 1939.

"Does nan truth that you played nan arena someway make you Nazi adjacent? And fto maine show you, for a Nazi rally location were an atrocious batch of Israeli flags successful that building," Mauro said Monday connected "America's Newsroom."

MEDIA ERUPTS OVER TRUMP MSG RALLY, BUT HISTORY OF ARENA AND FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS BELIE NARRATIVE

Madison Square Garden is nan longtime location of nan New York Knicks and New York Rangers, 2 of nan astir storied franchise successful their respective sports.  (Getty Images )

Stop Antisemitism laminitis and executive head Liora Rez besides blasted nan Hitler comparisons.

"Equating either statesmanlike nominee—or their supporters—to nan Nazi authorities is simply a vulnerable trivialization of nan existent horrors committed by Hitler. It dishonors nan millions who were murdered and nan brave who fought to extremity his tyranny," Rez told Fox News Digital. 

Harris-Walz run co-chair Cedric Richmond besides told "America’s Newsroom" connected Tuesday that "If you want to cognize why group telephone Trump Hitler, possibly you should commencement pinch JD Vance who did that."

Richmond was referring to Vance calling Trump perchance "America's Hitler" and an "idiot" anterior to nan 2016 election. Vance has since said he was incorrect astir Trump and is now connected nan 2024 Republican ticket.

"Fascist was an reply to a mobility that was asked astatine a municipality hallway and it was a nonstop mobility and nan vice president gave a very nonstop answer," Richmond added. "And it’s accordant pinch nan group who worked astir him."

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Critics person heavy criticized nan Harris campaign’s deficiency of attraction and opportunity nan "joy" isn’t resonating pinch voters.

Former White House property caput Ari Fleischer, whose relatives perished during nan Holocaust, said Democrats making Nazi comparisons their closing statement successful nan predetermination is nan "dumbest" point they could do politically. 

Fox News Digital's Greg Norman, Brian Flood, and Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.