Trump Claims No Knowledge Of Racist Rally Comic

The Hill reports:

Former President Trump says he does not know the controversial comedian who performed at his Madison Square Garden rally Sunday and didn’t hear him speak — his most extensive public comments yet on the controversy surrounding Tony Hinchcliffe’s remarks about Puerto Rico.

“I don’t know him; someone put him up there. I don’t know who he is,” Trump told ABC News’s Rachel Scott in an interview published Tuesday.

Trump notably did not touch on the controversy during his Atlanta rally on Monday either, instead boasting about the attendance of the Madison Square Garden event.

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