The war of words
between President Trump and Rev. Al Sharptongue began a week ago after the
President sent a series
of tweets critical of House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings’ combative rant against Acting
Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan over conditions at detention facilities
that house illegals entering the country.
“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. Cummings’ 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 place.”
It was on like a pot of
neckbones after that. Miraculously
materializing at the first whiff of racial trouble, The Right Reverend Al Sharptongue
joined Democrats and others who loathe Trump to condemn the President’s remarks
about Congressman Cummings and the city of Baltimore blustering, “[Trump] is
never shy about insulting cities and countries that disagree with him
politically, but he reserves particular insult for black and brown cities.”
Presidential candidates
Joe
Biden, Elizabeth
Warren and Kamala
Harris tweeted their praise of The Reverend.
On Monday,
Sharptongue held a news conference alongside former RNC Chairman Michael Steele
to address what he called “Trump's racist remarks."
“Little did I know that
Mr. Trump was going to, on the eve of this, attack the congressman from this
city. But not only the congressman but the people of this city, in the most
bigoted and racist way."
Last year, USA
TODAY reported that “Baltimore is the nation's most dangerous big city.”
The poverty
rate is over 22%, and the population is shrinking. The city’s
politics are riven with endemic corruption — former Mayor Catherine
Pugh resigned in disgrace this May. She's the third
Baltimore mayor in a row to leave in the wake of intense
scandal. Baltimore is dotted with thousands of vacant buildings, and as for rodents,
exterminator Orkin listed Baltimore in the top 10 of its annual survey of “rattiest cities”.
Seth Mandel, Executive
Editor of the Washington Examiner penned an Op-Ed in the Washington
Post delivering a lengthy argument of why Sharptongue is “unworthy of such
praise” due to his “history of race-baiting and deadly anti-Semitic incitement.”
Glenn Loury, Economic
Professor at Brown University opined in The
New York Times, Democrats “have yoked themselves to a genuine bigot. The problem for them is “Al Sharpton actually
is, as Mr. Trump put it on Twitter, a ‘con man’. And not just a con man: Mr. Sharpton is an ambulance-chasing,
anti-Semitic, anti-white race hustler.”
Professor Loury
concluded, “If Democrats cannot distinguish between Mr. Sharpton’s hucksterism
and genuine moral leadership on race and justice in America, I assure you many
moderate voters in Battleground States will have no trouble doing so.”
On the same day
Sharpton held his news conference in Baltimore, 44 miles to the southwest,
Alveda King, niece of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., joined 20 other inner city
faith leaders at the White House.
King said the meeting focused
on urban affairs, “things that many of us around the table were concerned
about” including the sanctity of life, urban development, the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development, prison reform, jobs and Historically Black Colleges
and Universities (HBCU).
King told
Sheila Poole, reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, she doesn’t think
[President] Trump is racist or that his words and actions have emboldened white
supremacists.
“I don’t believe white
supremacists need anyone to embolden them, they’re bold enough all on their own
and they are in great need of prayer,” she said.
“I have a picture of
Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton with Donald Trump, he wasn’t President
then, and they were friends. They were
all supposed to be friends and look where we are now. It’s time for us as a
nation to reconcile as one blood, one human race and work things out together.”
