Pictured are the Rev Al Sharpton (wearing gray suit), President Donald Trump, and Maryland Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings (wearing blue suit)
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CLEVELANDURBNNEWS.COM-NEW YORK CITY-Former MSNBC host the Rev. Al Sharpton held a press conference on Monday and continued his attacks on President Trump following Trump's tweet last week that the well-known Civil Rights leader and former presidential candidate who leads the New-York-based National Action Network is a troublemaker and conman who hates White people and cops.
On Monday, Sharpton, flanked by former RNC chair and prior Maryland lieutenant governor Michael Steeele, who is Black, and a group of Civil Rights activists who stood with him at the press conference in Baltimore, had harsh words for the Republican president and real estate mogul, and deemed Trump, the president since 2017 who is seeking reelection in 2020, a "racism peddler."
Sharpton also used the press conference to push for economic equality for the Black community of Baltimore, and nationwide, and spoke on housing and educational disparities as the 2020 presidential election nears and an overcrowded field of Democratic candidates for president prepare to debate a second time, this time on July 30 -31 in Detroit, Michigan
Trump's opponents, including Sharpton, Democratic presidential candidates, Black leaders and congressional Democrats, say he is preaching to his base with his potent racial rhetoric.
His supporters say he is just being himself and using the divisive issue of race as a campaign tragedy as Blacks overwhelmingly vote Democratic, and racism is still alive and well in American, in politics, and across the continuum.
In response to Trump saying he is a troublemaker, Sharpton said that he will continue to "make trouble for bigots like" Trump.
He said that if Trump truly believed him to be a conman he would recommend he be appointed to his cabinet, a sarcastic reference to a string of indictments since Trump took office, salver Trump affiliates, including his former attorney, Michel Cohen, and his former campaign chairman, Paul Maniforth, serving prison terms on fraud and fraud-related convictions.
Also during his press conference, Sharpton again defended Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md, calling Trump's tweets that Cummings is "racist,"and a "brutal bully" bigoted and racist, the president under attack for saying Baltimore is no place where anybody would want to live, and for vilifying Cummings, who is Black and a senior congressman whose seventh congressional district includes the 63 percent Black city of Baltimore.
"He attacks everybody," said Sharpton of Trump, who is White and initiated his attacks on Sharpton after Sharpton came to the aid of Rep Cummings. "I know Donald Trump."
Sharpton said that the president is not mature enough to take constructive criticism.
"He's like a child, somebody says something, he reacts," the longtime community activist leader said of the president. "He's thin-skinned and not really matured that well, but he has a particular venom for blacks and people of color."
Steele, who served as chair of the RNC from 2009-2011 and was Maryland's lieutenant governor from 2003-2007, spoke at the press conference too, and lambasted Trump for his attacks on the city of Baltimore, the president now catching heat over the controversy from Blacks across partisan lines.
The president's attacks on Cummings and Sharpton come less than two weeks after he picked a fight with four freshman congresswomen, all of them women of color.
Specifically, he created a fury by demanding that U.S. Reps Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan go home to the countries they came from, all but Omar, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen who came to America with her U.S. born parents as a child refugee, born in the U.S..
A week later he intensified his attacks on the federal lawmakers, saying in a tweet that the four members of the congressional quartet now dubbed 'the quad' are "incapable of loving our country.”
Democratic members of congress, 2020 presidential candidates and world leaders have also lashed out at the president for his flagrant attacks on the four congresswomen of color, longtime Congressman John Lewis of Georgia calling Trump racist and an outright embarrassment to the American people.
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.
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