On the heels of Jimmy Kimmel‘s suspension at ABC, President Donald Trump is now taking purpose at MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton.
The president known as for the Federal Communications Fee to “look into” NBC’s broadcasting license after the civil rights activist and broadcaster featured Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Sunday’s version of “Politics Nation.”
On his Fact Social platform, Trump shared a decades-old picture of Sharpton and recounted their lengthy historical past as New York Metropolis acquaintances-turned-political adversaries.
“I knew Al Sharpton for many years, not that it matters, but he was a major ‘TRUMP’ fan,” he wrote. “He’d ask me to go to his fake Rallies all the time, because I brought BIG Crowds, and he couldn’t get anybody to come without me.”
Trump continued: “Then he did the Tawana Brawley Hoax, one of the worst Low Level Scams in History, and that set him back, BIG TIME!”
That remark alluded to a 1987 controversial scandal when Sharpton served as an adviser to an African American 15-year-old who accused 4 white males of abducting and raping her in upstate New York.
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President Trump attacked Al Sharpton in a submit (left) on his Fact Social account Sunday, accompanied by an 80’s-era photograph of Sharpton (proper). (Fact Social; James Marshall/Corbis by way of Getty)
He added: “Roberts is afraid to take him off because it wouldn’t be ‘Politically Correct.’”
Sharpton’s “Politics Nation” has aired on MSNBC since 2011.
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Donald Trump and Rev. Al Sharpton in 2006. (Shareif Ziyadat/FilmMagic)
Sharpton, who calls out the president throughout his weekly Nationwide Motion Community rally in Harlem and on his weekly, nationally-syndicated “Sunday Morning” radio present, hasn’t made any feedback about his former pal’s threats.
Trump’s urging of the FCC to take purpose at Sharpton follows its chairman Brendan Carr coming below hearth for utilizing “mafioso” ways in opposition to Kimmel, which prompted ABC’s dad or mum firm Disney to quickly pull his late-night discuss present from air after feedback he made about conservatives” reactions to the killing of Turning Level USA founder Charlie Kirk.
