MSNBC host Al Sharpton claimed on Friday's “Deadline” that “bitterness” has driven President Donald Trump to “extreme conditions.”
Host Nicole Wallace said: That's clearly not the person under oath. He is a person hardened by the desire to: I mean, I'm not a doctor. I don't know what made him so stubborn, but he was passionate about the most unpopular and most polarizing policies, and somehow his vanity gave way to revenge and retaliation. It is being ”
“I think this guy who always felt like he and his father were outsiders and looked down on in the Park Avenue business world of New York just broke through,” Sharpton said. spoke. “I came up and beat you all and became president. And after all I did, you humiliated me. You shot me and dragged me into court like a common criminal.'' And maybe that's what led him to go to such a dark side because he thought he was over it all. I don't know. And gravity brought him back. I don't know how long it will take for him to recover from this situation, but I don't know what the opposition can do to help him. Because he couldn't even get through Inauguration Day without taking a shot. Everyone. It has a deep bitterness. ”
He added: “A lot of that is because we're acting like he was always on track to become president.” He wasn't. He was an outsider with a bad reputation in the business world and had problems at places like Trump University, but he got in anyway. He thought it sanitized everything, purified everything, but he ended up getting four indictments and 34 felonies, and I think that's what hit him at rock bottom. . ”
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