Former President Donald Trump said he didn’t hear comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s Puerto Rico joke during his Oct. 27 Madison Square Garden campaign rally in New York City and that he doesn’t know him.
“I don’t know him, someone put him up there. I don’t know who he is,” Trump told ABC News’s Rachel Scott during an interview published Tuesday.
Trump also told the ABC News reporter multiple times he didn’t hear the comments made by the comedian, and said that he believes he will win the Nov. 5 election.
Hinchcliffe, who often does roast-style comedy events, said during Sunday’s event: “I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.”…