Historian Craig Shirley calls Hillary Clinton 'ignorant' for comparing Trump's MSG rally to Nazis

Presidential historian Craig Shirley responded to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton comparing GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's planned campaign rally at Madison Square Garden to a Nazi rally at the New York City arena 85 years ago.

"One other thing that you'll see next week ... is Trump actually reenacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939," Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee who Trump defeated to become president, said Thursday night on CNN. 

"President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo-Nazis, fascists in America were lining up to essentially pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany. So I don't think we can ignore it." 

Shirley in his criticism of Clinton's comparison pointed out that Barry Goldwater, whom Clinton supported in college, also held a campaign rally there.

"Dear Ignorant Hillary, Barry Goldwater held a sellout rally in Madison Square Garden in 1962," Shirley wrote on X to Clinton.

"You remember Goldwater, right? You supported him. He was a conservative, just like Donald Trump. And Goldwater was called a fascist too by ignorant people like you."

 Clinton said in a past interview that she used to be a "Goldwater girl."

In a news release, Shirley said former former President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton's husband, accepted the Democratic presidential nomination during the party's national convention at Madison Square Garden in 1992. 

The Trump campaign also mentioned the 1992 Democratic convention in a statement responding to Clinton's attack.

"Hillary Clinton is so messed up from her raging 8-year-long case of anti-Trump derangement syndrome that she forgot SHE did an event at Madison Square Garden when she was a Senator, and her husband Bill accepted the Democrat nomination there,” said a spokesperson for the Trump campaign. "Putting aside her hypocrisy, Hillary’s rhetoric about half of the country is disgusting."