Conservatives Ridicule Al Sharpton for Imagining ‘James Madison or Thomas Jefferson Tried to Overthrow the Government’
Civil rights leader Al Sharpton was ridiculed on Wednesday after he told MSNBC to imagine if James Madison or Thomas Jefferson had “tried to overthrow the government” following former President Donald Trump’s indictment.
During an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Sharpton said, “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?”
He continued:
The sad part about this to me is that this is not a man that is facing all this because he believed in a political position or political policy or cause. I’ve seen people go down the wrong side for a cause. This is all about him. This is narcissism with steroids and to think that he could get this whole country divided and split, and commit these crimes and have others commit crimes off his own self-aggrandizement, is as sick as it gets.
Sharpton’s remarks about Madison and Jefferson trying to overthrow the government were ridiculed on social media due to the fact that both men were key figures in the American Revolution against British rule.
“Oh I can definitely imagine reading that James Madison and Thomas Jefferson overthrew a corrupt government,” tweeted Federalist co-founder and CEO Sean Davis, while Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway wrote, “Wait until MSNBC learns about the founding of the country! I’m not sure what’s better — that he said this or that MSNBC decided to highlight it for their Twitter followers.”
“How was that darn America founded again,@TheRevAl?” tweeted actor Nick Searcy. “Does anyone at @msnbc even history, bro?”
On Tuesday, Trump was indicted on four felony counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, over his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
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