Donald J. Trump has an uncanny ability to get people to do very odd things. In this case, the very odd thing is flocking to defend race-baiter, Al Sharpton.
Whether his strategy is intentional or not is another thing. It seems intuitive, but perhaps it’s actually a calculated move.
One thing is for sure, it’s pretty much Trump’s superpower.
Recently, he managed to leverage the outrage of his tweets against “The Squad” to get all Democrats to embrace them as the leaders of their party.
There was a nasty feud in the Democrat party as Speaker Pelosi was trying to reign in the four über-left freshman Congresswomen who were deliberately alienating moderate Democrats and threatening to primary them. It ended with AOC calling Pelosi racist.
Trump tweeted and that was it.
Now the Democrats are united… under AOC and her Squad.
Is he doing the same thing now that he’s criticizing Democrat districts?
The big News Of The Day™ is that President Trump is criticizing the Baltimore district of Democrat Congressman Elijah Cummings. (He has also tweeted about the “disgusting” streets of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s district, and that New Hampshire was a “drug-infested den” but let’s ignore those for now.)
The tweets about the state of the district that Cummings represents has been labeled “racist” by the Powers That Be™ in the Media(D), so, naturally, Al Sharpton is swooping in to capitalize on that.
President Trump called out Sharpton on Twitter:
I have known Al for 25 years. Went to fights with him & Don King, always got along well. He “loved Trump!” He would ask me for favors often. Al is a con man, a troublemaker, always looking for a score. Just doing his thing. Must have intimidated Comcast/NBC. Hates Whites & Cops! https://t.co/ZwPZa0FWfN
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2019
Baltimore, under the leadership of Elijah Cummings, has the worst Crime Statistics in the Nation. 25 years of all talk, no action! So tired of listening to the same old Bull…Next, Reverend Al will show up to complain & protest. Nothing will get done for the people in need. Sad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2019
If the Democrats are going to defend the Radical Left “Squad” and King Elijah’s Baltimore Fail, it will be a long road to 2020. The good news for the Dems is that they have the Fake News Media in their pocket!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2019
Al Sharpton would always ask me to go to his events. He would say, “it’s a personal favor to me.” Seldom, but sometimes, I would go. It was fine. He came to my office in T.T. during the presidential campaign to apologize for the way he was talking about me. Just a conman at work!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2019
Trump and Sharpton have a long history that goes all the way back to when President Trump wasn’t seen as racist because race-baiters like Sharpton and Jesse Jackson were lining up trying to get him to fund their pet causes.
That would be Donald Trump sitting next to Jessie Jackson and holding Al Sharpton's hand. Man, what a racist. pic.twitter.com/SiqfHFLdmW
— Lew (@lewsmuse) July 28, 2019
I guess Donald Trump can just turn the racism on and off, which is kind of weird for a racist.
How unlike Al Sharpton who seems to have only one setting — Maximum Racism.
Al Sharpton has made a career out of race-baiting. He pushed the Tawana Brawley account of the black teen gang-raped by white men, but it was a hoax. He has spoken publicly about “offing” both “crackers” and “pigs” — but he doesn’t really get called out for that. Also, he incited violence against Jews.
We should never forget that Sharpton played a significant role in the Crown Heights riots. Sharpton repeatedly yelled to the angry crowd, “No justice, no peace!” And he has never outright apologized for what took place.
Based on everything we have seen and read, Sharpton never called upon the rioters to stop their anti-Semitism-inspired violence. He never called on the rioters to go home. To the contrary, he stirred them up. And three days of anti-Semitic violence became the Crown Heights riots.
Sharpton’s revisionism only serves to perpetuate the fallacy that the riots erupted organically from some underlying ongoing issues between the African-American and Jewish communities of Crown Heights. In other words, that profound tensions were boiling just beneath the surface and were suddenly unleashed by the tragic death of Gavin Cato.
That is simply untrue. The riots were the product of anti-Semites taking advantage of the tragic death of a child to justify inflicting their violence on innocent people – the Jewish community of Crown Heights – and murdering Yankel Rosenbaum, a Jew from Australia, amid the cries of “Kill the Jew!”
Source: New York Daily news
Sharpton’s legacy is still a problem in New York today.
This is what happens when you hire Al Sharpton’s longtime aide to run your city while you hunt rodents and run for president.
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) July 25, 2019
What a guy, that Sharpton!
Is this an example of President Trump using 12-Dimensional Chess by making leftists defend race-baiter, Al Sharpton?
Because that’s exactly what is happening with the 2020 Democratic hopefuls.
.@TheRevAl has dedicated his life to the fight for justice for all. No amount of racist tweets from the man in the White House will erase that—and we must not let them divide us. I stand with my friend Al Sharpton in calling out these ongoing attacks on people of color.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) July 29, 2019
Like clockwork, the left and even some Never Trumpers are now praising Al Sharpton. Al. Sharpton.
— clarice starling (@hell_oh_clarice) July 29, 2019
I've known @TheRevAl for decades and Trump's characterization is not only disrespectful, it's untrue. While @TheRevAl was pushing for justice in the teachings of Dr. King, Trump was calling for the execution of five innocent black boys. https://t.co/UhR1cpjpxj
— Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) July 29, 2019
.@TheRevAl is a champion in the fight for civil rights. The fact that President Trump continues to use the power of the presidency to unleash racist attacks on the people he serves is despicable. This hate has no place in our country. It's beneath the dignity of the office.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 29, 2019
Booker’s camp just had weak sauce:
Projecting much? pic.twitter.com/5aORSGUgsv
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) July 29, 2019
Sharpton replied on Twitter:
Trump says I’m a troublemaker & con man. I do make trouble for bigots. If he really thought I was a con man he would want me in his cabinet.
— Reverend Al Sharpton (@TheRevAl) July 29, 2019
Sharpton called into Morning Joe on MSNBC:
Interesting to note that Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski were married in a secret ceremony at the National Archives officiated by… wait for it… Rep. Elijah Cummings(D-MD).
Sharpton also responded on MSNBC:
WATCH: @TheRevAl responds to President Trump's attacks against him.
"He's going to attack me as a 'troublemaker' and a 'con-man.' …I am a 'troublemaker'… I intend to make trouble every time racists and bigots move around in any way shape or form, including the president." pic.twitter.com/A9mmM53TR2
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 29, 2019
Followed by a press conference:
Rev. Al Sharpton: "He attacks everybody. I know Donald Trump. He's not mature enough to take criticism… But he has a particular venom for blacks and people of color." pic.twitter.com/oUjW1TeuMU
— The Hill (@thehill) July 29, 2019
Now the Left is clutching their pearls because President Trump has called Al Sharpton a conman.
Yeah, this isn’t the first time he’s done that. He said that in 2017 on Fox & Friends.
Let’s be frank… Al Sharpton is just awful. He can’t even pronounce half of the words on his own show.
It might have something to do with the frequency that Sharpton plays the race card.
Sharpton has said some anti-Semitic things over the years.
The President just isn’t giving Al Sharpton the R-E-S-P-I-C-T that he so clearly deserves.
Frankly, Sharpton doesn’t deserve R-E-S-P-I-C-T or R-E-S-P-E-C-T, either. The fact that he still has a platform is actually quite shocking.
But then, the left loves them some Rev. Al!
Al Sharpton with the comeback of the year: “If Trump really thought that I was a con man then he’d be nominating me to his cabinent!”pic.twitter.com/8JxAzUYjKa
— Power to the People ☭🕊 (@ProudSocialist) July 29, 2019
But the feeling is not the same on the right side of the aisle, especially among black conservatives.
"As a black man, I am offended when white people take the likes of Al Sharpton seriously—or pretend to."
–@ThomasSowell pic.twitter.com/xPAaZ3FaNb— Larry Elder (@larryelder) July 29, 2019
We’ve all seen the dishonest games the left have played with the power they’re entrusted with, they’re obviously unworthy of that trust.
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