The Bulwark reported Monday afternoon that Donald Trump's campaign intervened to strike a "joke" that right-wing comedian Tony Hinchcliffe had planned to tell during Sunday's rally at Madison Square Garden.
Trump's campaign has spent most of Monday distancing itself from Hinchcliffe and his claim that Puerto Rico was an "island of garbage."
"This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign," said a senior Trump adviser in a statement to Fox News.
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The problem the campaign faces is that they did see at least some of Hinchcliffe's planned content ahead of time.
He had a joke calling [Vice President Kamala] Harris a ‘c--t,’” The Bulwark relayed, citing "a campaign insider involved in the discussions about the event."
The report explained that the Trump campaign asks all speakers to turn in drafts of their remarks ahead of time to load into the teleprompter. The campaign source said that a staffer spotted the C-word and asked Hinchcliffe to remove it.
