Conservatives Roast Al Sharpton After He Asks Viewers to Imagine Jefferson Overthrowing the Gov’t
Civil rights leader Al Sharpton is getting roasted for comments he made aimed at criticizing former President Donald Trump . Speaking about Trump’s indictment for his alleged involvement in plans to overturn the 2020…
Civil rights leader Al Sharpton is getting roasted for comments he made aimed at criticizing former President Donald Trump.
Speaking about Trump’s indictment for his alleged involvement in plans to overturn the 2020 election, Sharpton said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Thursday, “One day, our children’s children will read American history, and can you imagine our reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government so they could stay in power?”
“We’re looking at American history… The sad part about this to me is that this is not a man that is facing all this because he believed in a political position or political policy or cause. I’ve seen people go down the wrong side for a cause,” he continued.
Finally, Sharpton said, “This is all about him. This is narcissism with steroids and to think that he could get this whole country divided and split, and commit these crimes and have others commit crimes off his own self-aggrandizement, is as sick as it gets.”
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It did not take long for conservatives to hop on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, to dunk on Sharpton and suggest his knowledge of history was not too good.
Conservative commentator Ian Haworth wrote, “Pretty sure James Madison and Thomas Jefferson had no problems overthrowing governments.”
“Oh I can definitely imagine reading that James Madison and Thomas Jefferson overthrew a corrupt government,” wrote The Federalist’s CEO Sean Davis.