Trump seeks to disavow comic’s racist jokes at Madison Square Garden rally

Ex-president said Tony Hinchcliffe, who called Puerto Rico ‘an island of garbage’, ‘probably’ shouldn’t have been at rally

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The Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, continued to insist on Tuesday night that he doesn’t know the comedian who made racist and offensive jokes at his New York rally on Sunday, and that the comic “probably” shouldn’t have been there.

In an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Trump was asked about racist and offensive jokes made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” and made disparaging remarks about its people.

Trump seeks to disavow comic’s racist jokes at Madison Square Garden rally

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