Not only did Newsmax put the lie to Donald Trump’s claim that his New York trial was keeping him from campaigning by hyping all the campaign rallies he did on weekend breaks from the trial, it heavily hyped a rally he held right in New York City. Eric Mack gushed in a May 18 article:
Campaigning in deep-blue states, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is hosting a campaign event Thursday at 6 p.m. ET in the Bronx, highlighting what he says is the damage done to working-class America under President Joe Biden.
There was no calling it a traditional rally in the campaign update, but it is being billed as an opportunity for Trump “to highlight the horrendous effects Crooked Joe Biden’s disastrous presidency has had on our economy.”
Notably, Trump just hosted a full-blown rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, where local officials said he drew an estimated 80,000 people on the famed beach-side boardwalk area. The blue states of New Jersey and New York tend to be chalked up as already won in presidential elections due to a roughly 2-1 registered Democrat-Republican margin, but Trump is taking his message to Democrat-controlled areas.
The only reference Mack made to Trump’s trial came in a promo in the final paragraph: “Thursday’s event at Crotona Park in the South Bronx. Tune into Newsmax and the free Newsmax2 online streaming platform for the latest from Trump’s trial in Manhattan early next week and his campaign development.”
The day of the rally on May 23, Newsmax ran a wire article previewing the rally. That was followed by a slobbering article by Mack on the rally itself:
Making a bold trek into deep-blue New York City and State, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump vowed to “make New York City great again.”
“Hello to all of the incredible, tough, strong, hard-working American patriots right here in the Bronx,” Trump told a campaign rally at Crotona Park, which aired live and in its entirety on the Newsmax2 online streaming platform. “I’m thrilled to be back in the city I grew up in, the city I spent my life in, the city I helped build, and the city that we all love: New York City.
“And I’m here tonight to declare that we are going to turn New York City around, and we are going to turn it around very, very quickly.”
That was followed by another stenographical piece by Mack:
Speaking to New Yorkers in a rare trip to the deep-blue city and state, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump issued a stark warning about mass illegal immigration under President Joe Biden destroying “your lifestyle” and “American dream.”
“If you look at these people — did you see them? — they are physically fit,” Trump told a campaign rally at Crotona Park, which aired on Newsmax and the Newsmax2 online streaming platform. “They are 19 to 25. Almost everyone is a male, and they look like fighting age.
“I think they’re building an army!”
Trump is lying about that, but Mack won’t tell you since he’s just a stenographer, not an actual reporter. Still, Mack cranked out a third piece of stenography from the rally:
Speaking to a deep-blue district in a deep-blue state, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump brought a new wrinkle to his usual campaign rally speech Thursday, briefly eschewing politics to talk about “success.”
“Because we have so many young people here today, I want to talk about — just for a moment — about success,” Trump told a Bronx campaign rally at Crotona Park, which aired live on the Newsmax2 online streaming platform.
“We are in the Bronx. We have young people, people that aspire to success, and I just wanted to — you know, I’m so tired of politics; can we devote six minutes to success?”
Trump’s message did not completely abandon the politics of his trying to compete in the Bronx district that went 87% for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, but he talked about getting and sustaining “momentum,” doing something “you love,” and getting lucky through outworking your competition.
That was followed by the usual parade of Trump toadies running to Newsmax to gush over the rally:
- Historian Craig Shirley to Newsmax: Trump’s Bronx Visit ‘Very Smart Move’
- Ben Carson to Newsmax: Bronx Turnout for Trump Not Surprising
- Ric Grenell to Newsmax: Trump Expanding Electoral Map With Bronx Rally
- Rep. Tenney to Newsmax: Trump ‘Reaching Out to All Americans’
- Rep. Burchett to Newsmax: Trump Rally Crowd Came to Hear ‘The Truth’
That’s nine original articles at Newsmax promoting a rally that drew only a few thousand people — not that many given how many millions of people live in New York City.