Taking aim at another dark face

Can't say I'm an Al Sharpton fan, but Trump was. I like how His Lardship hedged his bets on this one by admitting that he went to some Al Sharpton events, but "seldom". That's because he knows there are many pictures online of the two of them together.  Of course, it was always Sharpton begging for favors.

Old Lardass is still getting blowback from far and wide for his racist screed about Elijah Cummings and Baltimore.





(FYI, AoDespair, David Simon, is producer and head writer of the hit show The Wire.)





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David Simon, the creator of "The Wire," an HBO series set in Baltimore, on Saturday denounced President Trump.

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"If this empty-suit, race-hating fraud had to actually visit West Baltimore for five minutes and meet any of the American citizens who endure there, he’d wet himself," Simon said on Twitter moments after Trump targeted Cummings and his congressional district.

Simon added later that the "president is 'literally' a simplistic, racist moron."

"I am 'literally' the guy writing stuff about the last century of U.S. policy, about the drug war and mass incarceration, about Brown v. and white flight, about all of modern U.S. history to which your kind stays mute," he said in a tweet defending his criticism.

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"The Wire" was a renowned HBO series that documented many issues facing the city of Baltimore, including drug abuse and police corruption. Simon served as the show's executive producer and head writer.

  The Hill

"Taintsniffing moron" is a pretty good one.

So, after all that, why is Trump nasty-tweeting about Al Sharpton this morning?  Apparently, Sharpton is scheduled to...

...hold a news conference in Baltimore to decry Trump’s derogatory weekend tweets directed at the city and an African American congressman.

Sharpton, a former Democratic presidential candidate and MSNBC talk-show host, is scheduled to appear in Baltimore alongside Michael Steele, who formerly chaired the Republican National Committee and served as Maryland’s lieutenant governor.

The two plan to address “Trump’s remarks and bipartisan outrage in the black community,” according to an advisory.

  WaPo

And to my point about His Lardship hedging his bets...

Sharpton responded Monday morning on Twitter by sharing a photograph of Trump attending a 2006 conference hosted by Sharpton’s organization, the National Action Network.

Trump is nothing if not transparent.

“Trump at NAN Convention 2006 telling James Brown and Jesse Jackson why he respects my work. Different tune now,” Sharpton wrote.

Trump soon responded on Twitter, saying that Sharpton would “always ask me to go to his events” as “a personal favor.”

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Sharpton later continued the back-and-forth on Twitter, writing: “Trump says I’m a troublemaker & con man. I do make trouble for bigots. If he really thought I was a con man he would want me in his cabinet.”

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Steele also spoke out about Trump over the weekend, raising a question in a tweet about “how much more of Trump’s incessant whining, tweeting, bullying, & racism are we willing to put up with.”

Later this morning, His Lardship is still at it, but trying again to hedge his bets.






Baltimore was once great and he wants it to be great again (in fact, he apparently can make it happen all by himself from the "beautiful oval shaped office"), but Elijah Cummings - a black man - can't do it.  As David Simon pointed out to some imbeciles on his Twitter account, Baltimore has a mayor, and Maryland has a governor - they're in direct line from the president.  The people's representative in Congress can only make his voice heard.

What "crew" is he talking about?  They'll all be black, you can bet on that.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.