The Rev. Al Sharpton, one of the most notorious anti-Semites in modern American politics, used the fictional story of the “very fine people” of Charlottesville at the final event of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, on Thursday night.
Sharpton has a long history of anti-Semitism, racism, and general bigotry — so notorious that then-Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) would never be seen with him in public in 2008. Afterward, Obama turned to Sharpton as an informal adviser.
Sharpton was given a key speaking opportunity at the convention and, ironically, used it to accuse former President Donald Trump of anti-Semitism, claiming that Trump had called the neo-Nazis who perpetrated the Charlottesville riots in 2017 “fine people.”
As the transcript makes clear, and as fact-checked dozens of times by Breitbart News and even the left-leaning Snopes.com has confirmed, Trump was not praising neo-Nazis but, in fact, condemning them “totally” in his entire remarks.
Sharpton is in good company: President Joe Biden repeated the “very fine people” hoax in his convention speech Monday night, which may be the final major political speech of his career.
Breitbart News called out Biden when he first began using the hoax in 2019.
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In any case, Biden has repeatedly used the hoax, and it is partly as a result of it being widely believed among Democrats.
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