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Trump keeps up fight with Black community by launching feud with Rev. Al Sharpton, CNN reports

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Pictured are President Donald Trump and Civil Rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton in happier times, and talented CNN reporter Devan Cole, who write this article for CNN

 

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump launched a feud with the Rev. Al Sharpton on Monday, escalating a series of attacks on prominent black leaders and minority progressives.

Trump has recently called out minority lawmakers and leaders in an effort to define the Democratic Party and strengthen his base ahead of the 2020 presidential election. His morning tirade against Sharpton, a longtime African-American activist, come after a weekend in which the President repeatedly assailed Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, who is black, and the city of Baltimore, parts of which lie in Cummings' district. Later Monday, Sharpton is set to hold a press conference in Baltimore with former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, a Republican, "to address Trump's remarks & bi-partisan outrage in the black community."

In his tweets on Monday, Trump called Sharpton a "con man, a troublemaker" who "Hates Whites & Cops!" He also claimed that during the 2016 election, Sharpton visited him at Trump Tower "to apologize for the way he was talking about me.CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY AT CNN


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