Fact Checking Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden Speech [Video]

Former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies delivered a series of speeches at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday, treading over many of the same misleading and false claims they have repeated throughout the 2024 presidential race.

The event, one of Trump’s biggest rallies of the campaign, was characterized by shocking and polarizing comments, with comedian Tony Hinchcliffe branding Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” leading to wide uproar.

Trump, who spoke for just over an hour, was introduced onstage by his wife, former first lady Melania Trump.

Newsweek has looked at some of the major claims that Trump made during his speech to the packed New York audience.

“[Kamala Harris] …