BY ROSE ADAMS
Hundreds of supporters
of President Donald Trump
fl ocked to Marine Park on Oct.
25, where Republican leaders
delivered speeches in support
of the commander-in-chief’s
re-election.
The rally, organized by an
Orthodox Jewish group called
Jews for Trump, came after
caravans of Trump supporters
drove through New York
City on Sunday afternoon.
The largest convoy, also organized
by Jews for Trump,
made its way from Ocean Parkway
to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
and across the Brooklyn
Bridge, with supporters
waving Trump 2020 fl ags and
“Thin Blue Line” American
fl ags in support of the police.
The convoy coincided with
several smaller caravans and
Manhattan Trump rallies,
such as the “Red Zones Rally”
which drove to Manhattan
from Rockland County, and a
smaller demonstration of support
outside Trump Tower.
Later that day, hundreds
of supporters with Jews for
Trump and other pro-Trump locals
made their way to Marine
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Park for the 5 pm rally. A line
of cars shut down two blocks of
E. 34th Street and clogged Avenue
U, where attendees honked
their horns, and played music
while speakers cheered on the
crowd from a fl atbed truck.
“Trump 2020!” shouted
Heshy Tischler, the radio
personality who earlier this
month was arrested on charges
of inciting a riot for his role in
the violent anti-lockdown protests
in Borough Park.
Sunday’s crowd of nearly
1,000 people was mostly Orthodox
Jewish, and about half of
the attendees wore face masks,
according to a Brooklyn Paper
reporter on the scene. One
Trump supporter told this reporter
that she believed Trump
would send her medication if
she contracted COVID-19.
Throughout the rally, the
crowd chanted “four more
Instigator and anti-masker Heshy Tischler spoke at an Oct. 25 Marine
Park rally in support of President Donald Trump. Photos byTodd Maisel
years,” and “USA” while waving
Israeli fl ags and signs in
support of the police. The song
“YMCA” by the Village People
— the apparent anthem of the
event — played repeatedly.
The rally’s speakers included
former Borough Park
state Assemblyman Dov Hikind,
a conservative Democrat,
and billionaire heiress Andrea
Catsimatidis, the chairwoman
of the Manhattan Republican
Party whose father founded the
Gristedes Foods grocery chain.
“This is probably one of the
most exciting moments of my
life to see my city out here,”
Catsimatidis told the cheering
crowd. “The best is yet to
come! And that’s why we need
four more years of President
Trump.”
Unlike earlier in the day,
there were no apparent counter
protests at the Marine
Park rally, and no reports of
any altercations or arrests.
Citywide pro-Trump
rallies end with Marine
Park demonstration
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