{"id":1991536,"date":"2023-08-04T21:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T01:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/al-sharpton-tries-shaming-trump-by-comparing-him-to-founding-fathers-gets-an-instant-history-lesson\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T21:48:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T01:48:01","slug":"al-sharpton-tries-shaming-trump-by-comparing-him-to-founding-fathers-gets-an-instant-history-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/al-sharpton-tries-shaming-trump-by-comparing-him-to-founding-fathers-gets-an-instant-history-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharpton&#8217;s attempt to shame Trump by comparing him to Founding Fathers backfires with a swift history lesson."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fal-sharpton-tries-shaming-trump-by-comparing-him-to-founding-fathers-gets-an-instant-history-lesson%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1991536&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Al Sharpton Tries Shaming Trump\u200c by Comparing Him to Founding Fathers, Gets an Instant History Lesson<\/h2>\n<p>Even the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-lefts-big-problem-with-taking-white-privilege-global\/\" title=\"Left struggles to apply 'white privilege' globally.\">overly generalized<\/a>, overly simplified recounting of America\u2019s history could be summed up as \u2063such:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some distinguished gentlemen were sick of living under British rule and began to revolt<\/li>\n<li>Some tea was\u200c thrown overboard<\/li>\n<li>The American Revolution happened<\/li>\n<li>The Declaration of Independence was signed<\/li>\n<li>Hello, America<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apparently, even that overly generalized, overly simplified recounting of American history \u2063is a breadth too much for the notorious, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/al-sharpton-threatens-mcdonalds-accuses-company-racism-says-comes-big-macs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">race-baiting<\/a> Rev. Al\u200b Sharpton to grasp.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t take this writer\u2019s word (and loose understanding of American history) for it. Take Sharpton\u2019s own\u2063 remarks from his Wednesday appearance on MSNBC\u2019s\u2062 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/without-evidence-morning-joe-suggests-trump-may-financial-tie-malaria-drug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morning Joe<\/a>\u201d program.<\/p>\n<p>Sharpton appeared to discuss former President\u2063 Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-advances-student-loan-safety-net-program-while-forgiveness-scheme-awaits-fate-before-scotus\/\" title=\"Biden Advances \"Student Loan Safety Net\" Program While Forgiveness Scheme Awaits Fate Before SCOTUS\">ongoing legal issues<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/harvard-law-professor-declares-jan-6-trump-indictment-not-likely-survive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest indictment<\/a> in regards to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incursion.<\/p>\n<p>While\u200c Sharpton\u2019s general \u200cstance on Trump is nothing to write home about \u200b(what else would\u2064 you \u200cexpect but \u201cOrange man bad!\u201d from a leftist shill appearing on \u2063a leftist mouthpiece of \u200ca show?), what is worth a watch, however, is Sharpton\u2019s \u2064astounding history lesson below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cWe\u2019re looking at American history\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan \u200dyou imagine\u2062 our reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government \u2063so\u2063 they could stay in power?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis \u200bis narcissism with steroids\u201d<\/p>\n<p>-\u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRevAl?\">@TheRevAl<\/a>\u2069 on \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Morning_Joe?\">@Morning_Joe<\/a>\u2069 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qZqpZj6Zvp\">pic.twitter.com\/qZqpZj6Zvp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MSNBC (@MSNBC)\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC\/status\/1686720247208751104?\">August 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI mean, this is just as low as\u2063 it \u200cgets,\u201d Sharpton said about Trump\u2019s three indictments. \u201cI\u2019ve never\u200d heard of three cases on one individual in three jurisdictions. So this is \u200bserious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut on the other side of it, one \u2063day our children\u2019s\u2064 children will read American history. And can you imagine\u2062 our reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government, so they could stay in \u2064power?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s who we\u2019re looking at. We\u2019re looking at American history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again, this is a gross generalization, but \u2062men like Madison and Jefferson literally <em>did <\/em>overthrow a government to \u200chelp \u2064found America.<\/p>\n<p>The comments under that MSNBC post were vicious, with virtually every comment pointing out \u200bhow factually incorrect Sharpton was, to varying degrees of snark.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the specific snippet about Madison and Jefferson\u200c was also swiftly picked up by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-attempting-to-claim-theres-no-conservative-bias-on-social-media-experts-inadvertently-show-trump-crushed-biden-in-social-media-too\/\" title=\"In Attempting to Claim There\u2019s No Conservative Bias on Social Media \u2013 \u2018Experts\u2019 Inadvertently Show Trump CRUSHED Biden in Social Media Too\">conservative social media<\/a>, who had an absolute field\u200c day at Sharpton\u2019s expense \u2064(and deservedly so).<\/p>\n<p>Later in\u2063 the segment, Sharpton threw in another jab at Trump, making it \u200cpretty clear that disparaging Trump was far\u2062 more important than facts or historic context.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is\u200d all about\u200b him,\u201d Sharpton added. \u201cThis is narcissism with steroids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether you think this is\u2064 narcissism with a dash of \u200csteroid rage or whether you think Trump \u200bis being\u2064 unfairly persecuted with spurious and weaponized charges isn\u2019t \u2063even relevant in this instance.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever \u2062you may think of the\u200d former president, \u200cthe fact is that\u2064 Al Sharpton completely and \u2062utterly butchered American history just to take\u200d a\u2063 cheap\u200c dig at Trump.<\/p>\n<p>And the left\u2019s media lapdogs gobbled up that hyped \u2062bit of rhetoric regardless of how factually inaccurate it was. (For\u2062 evidence, \u2063just look at MSNBC\u2019s own self-aggrandizing \u200bsocial media post above.)<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the left would be so willing to bastardize American history just to score some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/al-sharpton-tries-shaming-trump-by-comparing-him-to-founding-fathers-gets-an-instant-history-lesson\/\" title=\"Sharpton's attempt to shame Trump by comparing him to Founding Fathers backfires with a swift history lesson.\">cheap political brownie\u2064 points<\/a> should tell you everything you need \u2064to know about\u200c them \u2014 and their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jumbo-calendar-shows-suspicious-timing-trump-indictments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current crusade<\/a> against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/al-sharpton-tries-shaming-trump-comparing-founding-fathers-gets-instant-history-lesson\/\">Al Sharpton Tries Shaming Trump by\u200d Comparing Him to Founding Fathers, Gets an Instant\u2062 History Lesson<\/a> appeared first on \u2064 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>summary of America&#8217;s history can be condensed further: Distinguished gentlemen revolted against British rule, throwing tea overboard. The American Revolution occurred, leading to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Greetings, America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2015,"featured_media":1991537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}