Donald Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt visited “Fox & Friends” early Monday to impart questionable spin on the rampant racism at the Madison Square Garden rally for the Republican nominee. (Watch the video below.)
Leavitt appeared on the Trump-fawning morning show to rebuke comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about Puerto Rico being a “floating island of garbage.” He also cracked that Puerto Ricans don’t “pull out” in a pre-speech set.
But she seemed to forget the rally was full of bigotry and other problematic remarks.
She praised the “diverse group” of attendees and said liberal New York City showed a “chance of getting very red.”
“It was amazing,” she said. “The energy last night was palpable in the room, the spirit. It was happiness and joy. And it was such a diverse group of people in that stadium packed to the house. There wasn’t an empty seat. You had Black Americans, Latino Americans, Jewish Americans, men, women of all ages coming in support of President Trump and unafraid to show it.”
“Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy noted that the “mainstream media” reported on the comic’s jokes, “which were offensive” and denounced by Trump’s team. “What went on with that?” he asked.
“Look, it was a comedian who made a joke in poor taste,” Levitt answered. “Obviously, that joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or our campaign. And I think it is sad that the media will pick up on one joke that was made by a comedian rather than the truths that were shared by the phenomenal list of speakers that we had.”
“The joke fell flat, but the crowd was there because they know who President Trump is and they know he wants to be a president for all Americans,” she added.
Leavitt conveniently left out that Hinchcliffe launched several offensive barbs, including a bit about Black people carving watermelons instead of pumpkins, while other speakers contributed to the hate.
Real estate developer Grant Cardone said Harris “and her pimp handlers will destroy the country.” Tucker Carlson sarcastically (and incorrectly) called Harris potentially “the first Samoan-Malaysian, low-IQ, former California prosecutor ever to be elected president.” The former Fox News host suggested a Harris victory would not be believed, however, in another preemptive stab at sowing doubt about the election results.
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David Rem, a childhood friend of the former president, called Harris “the Antichrist” and “the devil.”
Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani also added to the enmity, telling the crowd “Palestinians are taught to kill us at 2 years old” during a diatribe against the Middle East.