MSNBC host and race-baiter Rev. Al Sharpton is a little confused about why the Founding Fathers are famous and what Americans celebrate every year on July 4.
“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? That’s what we’re looking at,” Sharpton said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “We’re looking at American history, and how it will play out is going to be very important.”
“We’re looking at American history”
“Can you imagine our reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government so they could stay in power?”
“This is narcissism with steroids”
-@TheRevAl on @Morning_Joe pic.twitter.com/qZqpZj6Zvp
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 2, 2023
His comments are in reaction to former President Donald Trump’s third and latest indictment, this one related to the events of Jan. 6, 2021. Contrary to common belief, Biden’s Department of Justice is not charging Trump with inciting an insurrection — something he has already been acquitted of by the U.S. Senate. Instead, the DOJ is prosecuting him for stating that the 2020 election was rigged — an opinion shared by many and one that’s protected under the First Amendment.
Presumably, Shapton was confused over the actual charges in the indictment and was trying to make the point that the revered Founding Fathers would never try to “overthrow the government,” as Trump supposedly tried to on Jan. 6, 2021.
Of course, the Founding Fathers did try
