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The Trump campaign is facing yet another political crisis with just over a week to go until the election after far-right comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” during an opening set at the former president’s event Sunday at Madison Square Garden. The comments — which also included tropes about Black Americans, Latinos in general and Jews — were quickly trashed as racist and offensive.. “However, humor has its limits.
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