If you thought liberal journalists and hosts were ugly to Brett Kavanaugh, you haven’t seen anything yet. Minutes after Donald Trump finished nominating Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, MSNBC speculated on secret coded messages the President was sending to racists. If that wasn't enough, race hustler Al Sharpton even disgustingly singled out Barrett’s children.
Using the nominee’s two adopted Black children as some sort of prop, Sharpton sneered, “Not to mention, that was the least diverse audience I've ever seen in around announcement like this. I looked around — I was glad her two kids did come out, I couldn't find too many other people of color in that audience.”
Earlier, host Nicolle Wallace embraced her inner conspiracy theorist and found a coded message in the nomination: “[Trump] made clear from the podium at the White House Rose Garden that he expects the justice to uphold our heritage, we all know what that means, and our Second Amendment rights. How do you think Donald Trump's branding as someone who will uphold our heritage and our Second Amendment rights impacts the confirmation process.”
Of course, Sharpton immediately picked up on the secret messages Trump was somehow sending out in the nomination: “I took serious note of him saying our heritage, what is he talking about there, and a clear signal from this president of him seeing the heritage of this country a lot different than many of us that see the heritage of this country quite differently than a lot of us who see the heritage of this country quite differently.”
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MSNBC live coverage
9/26/2020
5:24 p.m. EasternNICOLLE WALLACE: While we were on the air, I want to point out some of the atmospherics. Laura Ingraham is in the crowd Kelly Ann Conway was there. Certainly Amy Coney Barrett is celebrated among right-wing conservative activists who have been pining for an appointment like this one today for a very long time. But as that picture was playing out on our screen, all of our phones were exploding with statements from Democratic senators and from former vice President Biden.
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5:37 p.m. Eastern
WALLACE: Rev, I want to ask you what you heard when Donald Trump talked about what he expected from Amy Coney Barrett. He made clear from the podium at the White House Rose Garden that he expects the justice to uphold our heritage, we all know what that means, and our Second Amendment rights. How do you think Donald Trump's branding as someone who will uphold our heritage and our Second Amendment rights impacts the confirmation process.
SHARPTON: I took serious note of him saying our heritage, what is he talking about there, and a clear signal from this president of him seeing the heritage of this country a lot different than many of us that see the heritage of this country quite differently than a lot of us who see the heritage of this country quite differently.
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5:41 p.m. Eastern
AL SHARPTON: Not to mention, that was the least diverse audience I've ever seen in an announcement like this. I looked around — I was glad her two kids did come out, I couldn't find too many other people of color in that audience.
