Trump might be a genius getting these clowns to defend the indefensible. Hell, he even got @LafayetteBear to defend him.......
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybe...nts-are-some-of-his-strongest-assets-n2550926
.......A "champion" who has "spent his life fighting for what's right" and "justice for all." This is unvarnished garbage, for reasons we'll explicate below. One might think that one could tailor a critique of Trump's tweets and rhetoric without rushing headlong into a fawning endorsement of Sharpton's poisonous legacy, but these Democrats cannot help themselves. No one forced these leaders to publish these glowing reviews. They did so on their own volition, for political reasons. By cheering Sharpton as some sort of champion of equality and justice, they are whitewashing his disgraceful record of conduct -- including his central role in perpetuating an infamous racially-charged hoax. Via the Daily Beast:
Brawley was 15 years old in 1987, when she was found in her hometown of Wappingers Falls, New York, with “Bitch,” “KKK,” and “N***r” written on her stomach, her jeans burnt in the crotch, feces in her hair, and her tennis shoes sliced open. She said that she had been abducted and raped by a group of white men...Sharpton also named a local prosecutor, Steven Pagones, as one of the attackers. He offered no proof. Gov. Mario Cuomo dispatched a veteran prosecutor, Jack Ryan, to handle the case. Brawley and her advisers refused to cooperate in any way with Ryan and his team. “That was the decision of the lawyers,” Sharpton says defensively in the Times interview. When asked why Brawley’s team would not meet with New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams, Sharpton said it would be “like asking someone who watched someone killed in the gas chamber to sit down with Mr. Hitler.” Sharpton later accused Ryan of kicking a blind man in a scuffle with demonstrators. Ryan was nowhere near the scene.
After a six-month investigation a grand jury found that the entire episode had been a hoax, with Brawley having defaced herself to avoid the wrath of her stepfather after staying out late to visit a boyfriend.Subsequently, both of her attorneys had their law licenses revoked (Mason for unrelated reasons) and Sharpton was found guilty of defamation in a lawsuit brought by prosecutor Steven Pagones, who quickly had been able to establish he had been nowhere near the scene of the alleged crime. The Times documentary shows a wild-eyed Sharpton responding indignantly to a reporter’s question of what proof he had of the policeman’s guilt: “I have Tawana Brawley’s words,” he sneers. Instead of apologizing, Sharpton still asserts, a quarter century later, that he deserves credit for standing by the teen, asserting darkly in the Times documentary, “something happened.”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybe...nts-are-some-of-his-strongest-assets-n2550926
.......A "champion" who has "spent his life fighting for what's right" and "justice for all." This is unvarnished garbage, for reasons we'll explicate below. One might think that one could tailor a critique of Trump's tweets and rhetoric without rushing headlong into a fawning endorsement of Sharpton's poisonous legacy, but these Democrats cannot help themselves. No one forced these leaders to publish these glowing reviews. They did so on their own volition, for political reasons. By cheering Sharpton as some sort of champion of equality and justice, they are whitewashing his disgraceful record of conduct -- including his central role in perpetuating an infamous racially-charged hoax. Via the Daily Beast:
Brawley was 15 years old in 1987, when she was found in her hometown of Wappingers Falls, New York, with “Bitch,” “KKK,” and “N***r” written on her stomach, her jeans burnt in the crotch, feces in her hair, and her tennis shoes sliced open. She said that she had been abducted and raped by a group of white men...Sharpton also named a local prosecutor, Steven Pagones, as one of the attackers. He offered no proof. Gov. Mario Cuomo dispatched a veteran prosecutor, Jack Ryan, to handle the case. Brawley and her advisers refused to cooperate in any way with Ryan and his team. “That was the decision of the lawyers,” Sharpton says defensively in the Times interview. When asked why Brawley’s team would not meet with New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams, Sharpton said it would be “like asking someone who watched someone killed in the gas chamber to sit down with Mr. Hitler.” Sharpton later accused Ryan of kicking a blind man in a scuffle with demonstrators. Ryan was nowhere near the scene.
After a six-month investigation a grand jury found that the entire episode had been a hoax, with Brawley having defaced herself to avoid the wrath of her stepfather after staying out late to visit a boyfriend.Subsequently, both of her attorneys had their law licenses revoked (Mason for unrelated reasons) and Sharpton was found guilty of defamation in a lawsuit brought by prosecutor Steven Pagones, who quickly had been able to establish he had been nowhere near the scene of the alleged crime. The Times documentary shows a wild-eyed Sharpton responding indignantly to a reporter’s question of what proof he had of the policeman’s guilt: “I have Tawana Brawley’s words,” he sneers. Instead of apologizing, Sharpton still asserts, a quarter century later, that he deserves credit for standing by the teen, asserting darkly in the Times documentary, “something happened.”
