The Puerto Rican flag flies in front of the Capitol building in San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 29, 2015. The archbishop of San Juan, Puerto Rico, called on Monday for former President Donald Trump to personally apologise for a series of racist remarks made by a comedian at his campaign rally in New York City.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.“I enjoy a good joke,” the archbishop, Roberto O González Nieves, wrote in a letter posted to Facebook. “However, humour has its limits. It should not insult or denigrate the dignity and sacredness of people. Hinchclif
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