Tuesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” bestselling author and conservative commentator Pat Buchanan said Attorney General Eric Holder acted more like the so-called civil rights leader Al Sharpton than the top law enforcement official in the land and tainted the jury pool by going to Ferguson MO to talk to community leaders about the Michael Brown shooting case.

Buchanan said of Holder’s action, “To go out there and take sides, I find appalling.” 

“He is someone who puts the issue of race front and center always and I don’t think that is not the mindset you want someone you want as Attorney General especially in a case which obviously has a deep racial component to it,” he added.

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