Trump Says Al Sharpton ‘Hates Whites’

President Trump, after a weekend spent assailing a leading African-American congressman from Baltimore, widened his war on critics of color on Monday morning as he denounced the Rev. Al Sharpton as “a con man” who “Hates Whites & Cops!,” the New York Times reports.

Said Trump: “I have known Al for 25 years. Went to fights with him and Don King, always got along well. He ‘loved Trump!’ He would ask me for favors often. Al is a con man, a troublemaker, always looking for a score. Just doing his thing.”

Sharpton responded: “Trump says I’m a troublemaker and con man. I do make trouble for bigots. If he really thought I was a con man he would want me in his cabinet.”