Sen. Kamala Harris Defends Sharpton: 'Done So Much for Our Country'
(CNSNews.com) - Al Sharpton, a man who injects himself into racial controversy wherever it may happen, tweeted on Sunday that he was on his way to Baltimore, where he planned to hold a news conference on Monday to address President Trump's weekend tweets.
That prompted President Trump to criticize Al Sharpton, whom he called a "con man" and a "troublemaker always looking for a score."
To which Sen. Kamala Harris, a Democrat presidential hopeful, tweeted on Monday:
@TheRevAl has spent his life fighting for what's right and working to improve our nation, even in the face of hate. It's shameful, yet unsurprising that Trump would continue to attack those who have done so much for our country.
Sharpton is among the many liberals expressing outrage over President Trump's comments concerning Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and his congressional district, which includes troubled West Baltimore.
In a series of tweets beginning on Saturday, President Trump blasted Cummings:
Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA..........As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy placeWhy is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately!
The president issued many similar tweets following those three, as liberal cable networks fumed about Trump’s “racism.”
After Sharpton announced his intention to weigh in, Trump wrote on Monday:
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!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!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!
Shortly before 9 a.m. Monday, President Trump tweeted that he might be willing to help reverse the misfortunes of inner-city Baltimore:
Crazy Bernie Sanders recently equated the City of Baltimore to a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY! Based on that statement, I assume that Bernie must now be labeled a Racist, just as a Republican would if he used that term and standard! The fact is, Baltimore can be brought back, maybe even to new heights of success and glory, but not with King Elijah and that crew. When the leaders of Baltimore want to see the City rise again, I am in a very beautiful oval shaped office waiting for your call!
AL SHARPTON: The Fraudster Charity Huckster
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/12/huckster-al-sharpton-sells-his-life.html
NAN is Sharpton's preferred extortion vehicle. He demands "donations" from corporations or he will single them out for "community action," including boycotts and protests. RICK MORAN / AMERICAN THINKER
Democratic candidates pay homage to him and he is great friends with the Clintons. But he's still just a two-bit street hustler who few will call out for his excesses because they fear the racial backlash. RICK MORAN / AMERICAN THINKER
Donald Trump: Al Sharpton a ‘Con Man’ Who ‘Hates Whites And Cops’
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President Donald Trump defied Al Sharpton Monday after the veteran black activist prepared to protest the president for his comments criticizing Rep. Elijah Cummings.
“Al is a con man, a troublemaker, always looking for a score. Just doing his thing,” Trump wrote. “Must have intimidated Comcast/NBC. Hates Whites & Cops!”
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! twitter.com/thereval/statu …
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On his MSNBC show on Sunday, Sharpton criticized Trump for “insult after racist insult” towards Cummings and Baltimore.
Sharpton lectured Republicans for looking the other way as Trump continued his “blatant dehumanizing racist rant” that was “endorsed” by his base.
“Here we have blatant, raw, racism, and crickets from the Republican party,” Sharpton said.
As a prominent New York businessman, Trump said on Twitter that he had known Sharpton for 25 years and even “got along well” with him when he went to boxing fights with Don King.
As a prominent New York businessman, Trump said on Twitter that he had known Sharpton for 25 years and even “got along well” with him when he went to boxing fights with Don King.
“He ‘loved Trump!” Trump wrote. “He would ask me for favors often.”
Sharpton wrote on Twitter on Sunday he was preparing to travel to Baltimore.
“Long day but can’t stop,” he wrote.
Sharpton announced plans for a Monday protest in Baltimore with former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele to criticize Trump’s remarks.
MICHAEL STEELE & I TO HOLD A PRESSER IN BALTIMORE TO ADDRESS TRUMP’S REMARKS & BI-PARTISAN OUTRAGE IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY
Participating in an already scheduled conference on the Black Economic Agenda, Sharpton & Steele to Decry Trump’s remarks about Baltimore & its Leadership
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The president repeated Baltimore had the worst crime statistics in the country
“25 years of all talk, no action!” he wrote. “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!”
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!
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Sharpton responded with a photo of Trump and himself at Sharpton’s National Action Network’s convention.
“Trump at NAN Convention 2006 telling James Brown and Jesse Jackson why he respects my work,” he wrote. “Different tune now.”
Trump at NAN Convention 2006 telling James Brown and Jesse Jackson why he respects my work. Different tune now.
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Trump said that he would “seldom” attend Sharpton’s events, but did it as a “personal favor” to the activist. He claimed that Sharpton eventually apologized for his criticism of the president during the 2016 campaign.
“He came to my office in [Trump Tower] during the presidential campaign to apologize for the way he was talking about me,” he wrote. “Just a conman at work!”
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!
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Trump taunted Democrats for defending Cummings and the “squad” of leftist members of Congress.
“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,” he wrote. “The good news for the Dems is that they have the Fake News Media in their pocket!”
FACT CHECK: Al Sharpton’s History of Racism, Antisemitism, Anti-Police Rhetoric
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Al Sharpton has a long history of bigotry that includes anti-white racism, antisemitism, and demonization of law enforcement.
His record has become relevant for two reasons. First, Democratic presidential candidates have been courting his support — with no criticism of his past.
Second, President Donald Trump tweeted Monday morning that Al Sharpton is a “con man” who “Hates Whites & Cops.”
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! twitter.com/thereval/statu …
He did so ahead of a press conference planned Monday in Baltimore where Sharpton and former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele — a frequent Trump critic — were to object to Trump’s recent criticisms of the city. (which were nearly universally shared until Trump made them).
Sharpton’s record matches Trump’s claims.
As Breitbart News noted earlier this year (original links):
Sharpton has a long history of controversial racial rhetoric. In the notorious Tawana Brawley case in 1987, Sharpton backed a teenager’s false accusations of rape, stirring racial divisions in New York and across the country. When he was successfully sued for defamation [by a prosecutor whom Brawley falsely accused of being among her attackers], he refused to pay the judgement, and supporters had to step in on his behalf. Sharpton still refuses to apologize for his role.In 1991, Sharpton helped incite riots against religious Jews in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn after a black child was killed in a car accident. An enraged mob murdered a visiting Jewish religious student, Yankel Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum’s brother told Breitbart News in 2012: “I have never seen a person be able to avoid being held accountable in substantive terms for his various and significant serious otherwise well publicized misdeeds over such a prolonged period of time, as Sharpton. This is truly an indictment on all those who have done so in the past and continue to do so.” (Sharpton acknowledged some of his “mistakes” in Crown Heights, while protesting his innocence, in a 2011 op-ed in the New York Daily News.)In another riot in 1995, Sharpton led protests against Freddy’s Fashion Mart, a Jewish-owned store in Harlem, after it was forced to raise the rent on a sub-tenant, a black-owned record store. (Sharpton called the owner a “white interloper.”) One of the protesters later shot four employees and set the store on fire, bringing the death total to seven.As of 2008, Sharpton’s NAN had massive debts and owed $2 million in taxes, which it claimed to be paying off. In 2014, the New York Times reported that Sharpton had “more than $4.5 million in current state and federal tax liens against him and his for-profit businesses,” which he denied. And in 2009, Sharpton and NAN agreed to pay $285,000 in civil penalties after the Federal Election Commission found that NAN had made improper contributions to his 2004 presidential campaign, when he ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party nomination.In 2012, Sharpton and NAN played a key role in inflaming national division and outrage over the death of Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed during a scuffle with neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Sharpton promoted false reports that Zimmerman used what Sharpton called “racial language” in speaking with police. He used his prime-time program on MSNBC to promote the story, including the claim that Zimmerman — whose mother is Peruvian — was “white,” implying racial bias in the killing.Despite that record, Sharpton has been rehabilitated by the left and the mainstream media. He hosted Saturday Night Live in 2003. He spoke to the Democratic National Convention in 2004 (breaking with his prepared text to aim a racially-tinged attack at President George W. Bush). He was hired as a host by MSNBC in 2011.But the most important event in Sharpton’s journey from the fringe to the mainstream was President Barack Obama’s decision to embrace him in 2011, even as other black leaders on the left stepped up their criticism of the administration.As the Daily Beast reported: “Obama stayed so far away from Sharpton during the 2008 campaign that Sharpton, with Obama’s blessing, never even endorsed him. Yet not only did Obama just become the first president ever to appear at the annual conference of Sharpton’s National Action Network, ten top Obama aides, including six cabinet members, Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod, spoke at various sessions of the four-day event.”Today, Democratic hopefuls are beating a path to Sharpton’s door, eager to speak at his NAN podium — with the slogan, “No Justice, No Peace” emblazoned behind them.
Sharpton has also played a leading role in the Black Lives Matter movement, which has demonized police.
The left-leaning Daily Beast blamed Sharpton, in part, for inflaming the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014 into local riots and a national conflagration:
The narrative thus set, Al Sharpton and the media descended upon Ferguson alongside outside agitators who marched with such slogans as “No Justice, No Peace” or “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.” More unrest would follow when the grand jury elected not to indict the officer for the tragic shooting. Riots and looting would ensue—with breathless coverage in the media and little from the President of the United States and the Attorney General to quell the violence.
In 2016, Sharpton was among the defendants sued by a black police officer from Dallas — Sergeant Demetrick Pennie, President of the Dallas Fallen Officer Foundation — for allegedly inciting hatred against police. (Five officers were previously killed in Dallas by a sniper during a Black Lives Matter protest.)
There is arguably no person in America more responsible for the decline in race relations in recent years. A Gallup poll of attitudes on race relations shows that they were improving until roughly 2012/3 — when Sharpton burst onto the scene with the Trayvon Martin controversy.
Trump’s claim is therefore grounded in a solid foundation of facts — facts that the media, following Obama’s lead, have swept aside for years.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Willie Brown's
Ex-Girlfriend Opposes School Choice
The well-rehearsed
attack by Sen. Kamala Harris on Joe Biden that destroyed his candidacy
during the clown-car Democratic presidential debates should have come as
no surprise to those who have watched her rise to political prominence.
Never mind its relevance or accuracy -- for Harris the ends have always
justified the means.
We saw during the
confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh that Kamala
Harris is an ambitious politician with a chain-saw-prosecutorial style designed
to bludgeon her targets with attacks and arguments that are more bluster than
brilliant. She revealed herself to be a political opportunist who, as
Sen. Cory Booker’s “Spartacus moment” fizzled, knows an “Elmer Gantry moment”
when she sees one. As Jonathan S. Tobin noted inNational Review:
She first earned
notoriety in the Senate last year by demonstrating open incivility bordering on
bullying when she interrogated Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the
national-intelligence chiefs. Bullying witnesses and cutting them off before
they have a chance to answer is her modus operandi during hearings…
The same qualities were
on display during her questioning of Kavanaugh. But while, like the other
Democrats, she never succeeding in outsmarting the judge, she was the only one
to momentarily flummox him by bringing up the Mueller investigation.
She started with an
impossibly general and specious query about whether he had ever discussed the
Mueller probe with “anyone.”…by asserting, even by implication, that Kavanaugh
might somehow be part of the Russia-collusion discussion, Harris gave liberal
Democrats exactly the kind of red meat they crave.
Along with her snide
and disrespectful prosecutorial tone, that made her the winner of the first day
of the Kavanaugh primary.
But Harris did more
than badger, mislead, and imply in her attempt to slander Kavanaugh. Harris
circulated a deceptively edited video designed to further her narrative that,
far from being an originalist that would apply the law fairly on any case,
including those involving abortion, Kavanaugh was an active participant in the
campaign to repeal Roe V.
Wade. As Ashe Schow noted in the Daily Wire:
Harris’ Twitter account
put out a clip that appeared to show Kavanaugh referring to birth control
blanketly as “abortion-inducing drugs.”
This is clearly
deceptive, as it’s obvious this was not the beginning of one of Kavanaugh’s
answers. Kavanaugh’s full sentence, which would have only required one or two
extra seconds had Harris’ team started at the beginning, made it clear he was
summarizing what a party in a Supreme Court case said.
Kavanaugh said, "In that case, they said filling
out the form would make them complicit in the provision of the
abortion-inducing drugs that they were, as a religious matter, objected
to." (Emphasis added.)
Harris was willing to,
uh, falsify evidence to slander Kavanaugh and push the false narrative that
Kavanaugh was just another pro-lifer waging a war on women. As she tweeted:
Kavanaugh chooses his
words very carefully, and this is a dog whistle for going after birth control.
He was nominated for the purpose of taking away a woman’s constitutionally protected
right to make her own health care decisions. Make no mistake - this is about
punishing women.
Make no mistake -- her
abuse of Kavanaugh and Biden is about advancing the career of Kamala Harris.
While portraying herself as a victim of segregation Biden supported, she
neglected to point out her vehement opposition to school vouchers and school
choice, things that would really free minorities from being trapped in failing
schools and give a real and equal shot at getting a quality education. She’s
all for busing children from and to the schools the government chooses, but not
letting parents send their kids to the schools they choose. Harris in 2017
joined fellow Senate Democrats in a 24-hour floor session trying to sink the
nomination of pro-school choice nomine Betsy DeVos to be Education
Secretary. As Joy Resmovits reported in the Los Angeles Times:
Harris' remarks came
amid a 24-hour marathon session that Democrats mounted to debate DeVos'
nomination on the Senate floor -- a last-ditch effort to secure the one
additional Republican vote needed to torpedo her confirmation.
DeVos, a Republican
fundraiser from Michigan, former state party chair and school choice activist,
has faced intense opposition since her confirmation hearing in January -- the
most of any of President Trump's Cabinet picks. DeVos spent her career
advancing school vouchers, which would allow students to use public dollars to
attend private schools, both secular and religious.
It would seem it is
Kamala Harris who continues to stand in the schoolhouse door. During a visit
with DeVos to Saint Andrew Catholic School in Orlando Florida in 2017,
President Trump rightly called education “the civil rights issue of our time”.
As the New York Post reported:
Trump’s visit capped
off a week in which he addressed the nation in a Joint Session of Congress,
pledging to fix the education system in America, invoking civil rights and
claiming it could be fixed using school choice -- using public funds to enroll
students in alternative charter schools and private schools as traditional
public schools.
“We want millions more
to have the same chance to achieve the great success that you’re achieving,”
said Trump during his visit to St. Andrew Catholic School in Orlando, which
receives a state funded benefit to operate as a religious school.
“St. Andrew’s Catholic
School represents one of the many parochial schools dedicated to the education
of some of our nation’s most disadvantaged children, but they’re becoming just
the opposite very rapidly through education and with the help of the school
choice programs,” Trump said in very brief remarks…
“As I’ve often said --
in my address to Congress and just about anyplace else I can speak -- education
is the civil rights issue of our time. And it’s why I’ve asked Congress to support
a school choice bill,’ he said.
Don’t ask Kamala Harris
who, while thanking school busing for helping to launch her career, owes much
more for her advancement for her association with former Democratic Speaker of
the California Assembly Willie Brown. As the Washington Examiner noted:
Kamala Harris’ first
significant political role was an appointment by her powerful then-boyfriend
Willie Brown, three decades her senior, to a California medical board that has
been criticized as a landing spot for patronage jobs and kickbacks.
Then 30, Harris was
dating 60-year-old Willie Brown, at the time the Democratic speaker of the
California State Assembly, when he placed her on the California Medical
Assistance Commission in 1994. The position paid over $70,000 per year,
$120,700 in current money, and Harris served on the board until 1998.
The medical
commission met twice a month, and Harris, a United States senator for
California since 2017 and now a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, missed
about 20% of the meetings each year, according to commission records obtained
by the Washington Examiner.
Harris, now 54, and
Brown, now 85, started dating in the spring of 1994, showing up arm-in-arm at
numerous high-profile functions, including Brown’s lavish parties and celebrity
galas. He has been separated but not divorced from his wife Blanche Vitero
since the 1980s and has maintained a string of girlfriends over the years.
Maybe, Kamala Harris,
it’s not what you know but who you know.
Daniel John Sobieski is a freelance writer whose
pieces have appeared inInvestor’s
Business Daily, Human
Events, Reason Magazine and the ChicagoSun-Times among other publications.
Kamala Harris
leads Senate Democrats' push to offer paid congressional jobs and internships
to DACA recipients even though they're not citizens
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Democratic presidential contender Kamala
Harris is leading the charge to lift the ban that keeps Dreamers from working
on Capitol Hill
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Harris has been courting the Latino vote as
part of her strategy of weaving together various Democratic constituencies to
win the nomination
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She is the daughter of immigrants from
Jamaica and India
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She has campaigned in the Latino-heavy states
of Nevada and Texas
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Democratic
presidential contender Kamala Harris is leading the charge to lift the ban that
keeps Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients from working on
Capitol Hill.
'The
giant sign outside my office says 'DREAMers Welcome Here' because we know and
value the contributions that these young people have made to their communities.
But right now, those same young people are banned from giving back to their
country by working for Congress. That has to change,' she said in a statement
Wednesday.
'Government
works best when it reflects the people it represents. Our nation's DREAMers are
some of our best and brightest, and it's time they had the opportunity to get a
job or paid internship on Capitol Hill,' the California Democrat
said.
Under
current law, paid employment in the House and Senate is limited to those who
are either U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents - more commonly referred
to as 'green card holders' - who have started the naturalization
process.
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Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris is leading the charge to
lift the ban that keeps Dreamers from working on Capitol Hill
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Under U.S. law, only citizens or those in the naturalization process can
work on Capitol Hill
Harris
has been courting the Latino vote as part of her strategy of weaving together
various Democratic constituencies to win the 2020 presidential
nomination.
Harris,
the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, has campaigned in the
Latino-heavy states of Nevada and Texas.
At her
events, she also encourages questions in Spanish as she has a translator
present - all of which are seen as moves to combat fluent Spanish-speaker
Beto O'Rourke in his bid to become the Democratic nominee.
Other
contenders are also courting Latinos.
On
Tuesday, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro became
the first candidate in the Democratic field to unveil a detailed immigration
plan. His proposal would offer a pathway to citizenship for
Dreamers.
Harris,
along with Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Dick Durbin of
Illinois, introduced on Wednesday The American Dream Employment Act that would
make the so-called Dreamers eligible for congressional employment.
The
bill was introduced in the House of Representatives by Democratic Rep. Ann
Kirkpatrick of Arizona, where it has 57 bipartisan co-sponsors.
The
status of Dreamers in the United States is in limbo, as President Donald Trump
ended the President Obama-era DACA policy and Congress has not acted to
permanently protect DACA recipients.
Court
decisions have kept the program in place.
Trump's
threat to close the border and harsh rhetoric toward immigrants has caused many
Latino voters to feel vilified by the president.
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