‘Morning Joe’ Panel Slams Trump’s ‘Sick And Grotesque’ Claims About Black Voters

Panelists on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” voiced disgust Monday over Donald Trump’s suggestion that his legal indictments are growing his enchantment to Black individuals.

On Friday, at a gala for the Black Conservative Federation, the previous president railed towards his 4 legal indictments, including, “A lot of people said that that’s why the Black people like me because they’ve been hurt so badly and discriminated against.”

Rev. Al Sharpton, an MSNBC analyst and longtime civil rights activist, known as Trump’s feedback the “epitome of an insult.”

Sharpton stated, “First of all, let’s be clear: Donald Trump is using the stereotype of Blacks being criminals, and therefore, we would gravitate towards somebody in a mug shot. He’s in a mug shot for trying to interfere with an election. Blacks were arrested to get the right to vote.”

Sharpton famous that prosecutors main two of the legal instances towards Trump are Black and that “Trump himself has been part of these kinds of unfair prosecutions of Blacks,” pointing to the 1989 assault advertisements he took out calling for the reinstatement of the dying penalty amid the arrests of the now-exonerated Central Park Five.

“I’ve never seen him stand up for Blacks that were treated wrong by the criminal justice system. But now he’s a symbol of being persecuted?” Sharpton requested.

Trump has additionally focused Black prosecutors main instances towards him with racially-charged abuse, co-host Joe Scarborough identified.

Mika Brzezinski, co-host of the morning present, stated Trump had first likened himself to the late Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny final week and now the Black neighborhood.

“These comparisons are sick and grotesque,” she stated.

Jonathan Lemire, Politico’s White House bureau chief, additionally described one other “grossly offensive” assertion from the Trump camp. He stated a Trump advisor had informed him that the previous president’s new sneaker line would enchantment to Black voters.

Trump has a protracted historical past of each overt and coded racism, together with when he accused Black prosecutors of being racist towards him, instructed immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” and informed 4 congresswomen of coloration to “go back” to the international locations they got here from.

Watch beneath on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”