Sharpton: Trump Attacks Obama Because He’s ‘Upset’ a Black Man Has ‘Everything He Would Have Wanted to Be in Life’

In a Thursday appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” network host Al Sharpton accused President Donald Trump of attacking his predecessor former President Barack Obama amid the Department of Justice’s review of the 2016 Russia investigation under Obama’s leadership  because “he is so upset that Barack is everything he would have wanted to be in life” while also being black and not having a “rich father.”

Sharpton argued Trump is polling poorly among black voters because he goes after Obama and because he does not address black Americans’ issues or concerns, pointing to black unemployment in recent years and the coronavirus pandemic.

“It’s a strange thing about black voters — they are very similar to other voters,” Sharpton stated. “You do for those that do for you and address your issues. When you look at the fact that even under the best economic circumstances of the last three and a half years, blacks were still doubly unemployed, and the president never addressed that, never said here’s a plan for that. When you look in the pandemic, where it has gotten even worse, he has given some verbal statement, ‘Oh, I’m concerned,’ when it was raised at a press conference — only when he was questioned, ‘I’m concerned blacks are dying or being found positive with the virus at a higher rate than whites.’ That’s the last we heard from him. No plan for that.”

He continued, “When we raised black-owned businesses, and other minority-owned businesses were not getting nearly what they should out of the stimulus package, no plan for that. So, what would he think black voters are trying to do? I’m surprised he’s at 3%. And if that wasn’t bad enough for him, to attack Barack Obama, because he’s so upset that Barack is everything he would have wanted to be in life, that he can’t stand that a man who happens also to be black, has hit every mark that he could not make and didn’t have a rich father to finance it, it just drives him crazy.”

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