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Ronald Reagan’s failed assassin-turned-folk singer calls NYC a ‘cesspool of crime’ after canceling Manhattan gig
NY Post ^ | 04/25/2024 | Steven Vago

Posted on 04/26/2024 12:24:45 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

This is a different kind of cancel culture.

Even President Ronald Reagan’s failed assassin-turned-folk singer is too afraid to step foot in the Big Apple — calling it a “cesspool of crime” after canceling an upcoming gig.

“I’m afraid of New York City and I just don’t want to go there right now,” John Hinckley Jr. — who tried to kill Reagan in 1981 — told The Post days after pulling the plug on a June show scheduled on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Hinckley announced the performance on X last week but pulled out because “he said New York is a ‘dangerous mess’ and ‘had a bad vibe,'” the event organizers told ticket holders for the unannounced venue in a bizarre email obtained by The Post.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: ChicagoConservative27

Want a record setting pay per view event? Put John Hinckley and Mark David Chapman in an MMA cage match.


21 posted on 04/26/2024 6:21:08 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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