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Have you ever heard of Howard Lutnick? You most likely will soon.
Howard W. Lutnick is the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, the venerable financial services firm. He was one of the lesser-noted speakers at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday — you know, the one where, if you believe MSNBC, jackbooted Trump supporters were goose-stepping around and shouted “Sieg heil!” in terrifying unison when a Charlie Chaplin-mustachioed Trump appeared and gave them the straight-arm salute.
While all that is lurid fantasy and the left’s latest shameless smear of the Bad Orange Man, Lutnick really did appear at the rally, and some leftists are using something he said there to try to stir up their cadres to hate Trump even more than they did already (as if that were possible).
The recasting of the mild-mannered Lutnick as a dangerous right-wing extremist comes to us courtesy of the New Republic, a publication that many people don’t realize still exists, but which is still churning out primo Trump-hate content for its tiny cadre of remaining readers.
The New Republic’s front page on Monday featured article after article designed to send a thrill of horror down the spine of the most fanatical Trump-hater: leftists can indulge in a veritable orgy of outrage toward and contempt for the Emmanuel Goldstein of our age with articles including “Trump’s Ugly Racist Rally Finally Unmasks His Real Closing Argument”; “It’s Not Just Trump We Have to Fear Anymore”; “Trump’s Promise to Young Men: I Am Your Retribution Against Women”; “Trump Spirals After Michelle Obama Destroys Him in Blistering Speech”; and for those who are starting to worry about how this election seems to be going, a grim warning: “If You’re Being Fatalistic or Panicking, You Are Helping Donald Trump.”
Amid all this risible nonsense and hysterical fear-mongering we get a particularly grim story: “Top Trump Aide Makes Terrifying Threat at Madison Square Garden Rally.” This is where Howard W. Lutnick comes in. “At Donald Trump’s rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden Sunday,” writes the New Republic’s Hafiz Rashid, “one speaker took a bigoted swipe at Muslims—and he holds an important position in the Trump campaign.”
Oh, heavens to betsy, a “bigoted swipe.” And at Muslims, no less — one of the left’s cherished victim groups. What did the dastardly Lutnick say? Did he call for mass deportations? Internment camps? A new “Muslim ban,” a fictional bogey that the left used to great effect to bedevil Trump’s first term?
There is more. Read the rest here.
Taffy says
“Trump Spirals After Michelle Obama Destroys Him in Blistering Speech.”
I don’t think Trump has any concern for what Big Mike says!
Hoi Polloi says
Madison Square Garden is full of Nazis. The rising seas are about to swallow us all. Farmland is covered with methane-producing cows. The hills, Maxine Waters tells us, are hiding insurrectionists. (I suspect she’s filled with glee at Helene’s destruction there.) The cities all need a good BLM burning. USA’s men are of no redeeming value, say the Obamas. (I suspect MO is mad at men because they won’t stay away from Barry, nor he from them, and she’s tired of bearding.) Men’s physical strength is of no real value, even in jobs where it’s the primary determinant of success. Women want abortion above all else. Womanface is good, women’s and girls’ spaces are no more. Children need to be sexually exposed, re-imaged, and chopped up. Young men should go die in Ukraine. The fearmongering continues. Sounds as though they’ve decided they’re gods.
Where’s all that joy they promised?
gravenimage says
Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Says Something At Trump Rally That Makes the Left Lose Its Mind
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So being against having your coworkers murdered by Jihad terrorists is a bad thing now?
Andrew Blackadder says
That recent Rally in The Garden must be THE strangest Nazi Rally ever where Israeli Flags were flying all over the joint and Jewish people wearing skull caps and some were even main speakers on Stage.
Really strange…
gravenimage says
Yep.