NBC Claims Trump Booed by ‘His Crowd’ at Al Smith Dinner

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While filling in for co-host Matt Lauer on Friday’s NBC Today, Nightly News anchor Lester Holt laughably claimed that the liberal New York elite at Thursday night’s Al Smith dinner should have been a friendly audience for Donald Trump. Noting how they jeered the Republican nominee’s address at the charity event, a baffled Holt declared: “He got booed. And not only did he get booed, but in a room where a lot of what you consider his crowd was.”

MSNBC anchor Steve Kornacki agreed: “Absolutely, I mean, you’ve got a lot of sort of wealthy, you know, people who might be Republicans traditionally.”