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Rufus Wainwright calls Donald Trump playing 'Hallelujah' cover during rally 'the height of blasphemy'

Rufus Wainwright slammed Donald Trump for playing his cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' during a bizarre, 30-minute-long listening party at his rally: 'The height of blasphemy.'

The Republican presidential nominee spun a series of tunes — including Wainwright’s 2007 cover of Leonard Cohen ’s “Hallelujah” — as part of a bizarre, 30-minute-long music-filled farewell that occurred at the end of his Oaks, Penn. The Grammy-nominated singer continued, “Of course, I in no way condone this and was mortified, but the good in me hopes that perhaps in inhabiting and really listening to the lyrics of Cohen’s masterpiece, Donald Trump just might experience a hint of remorse over what he’s caused. The tune was previously played at the 2020 Republican National Convention, leading Cohen's estate to announce it was “exploring our legal options" at the time, per Rolling Stone.

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