Al Sharpton Says Trump's Deflecting Epstein Questions By Going After Black Celebs

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Al Sharpton says President Trump is running from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and he's hoping an old trick distracts the masses ... attacks on big-name Black celebrities.

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00:00What say you that Donald Trump is saying he has heard that you took $600,000 in return

00:09for endorsing Kamala Harris?

00:11Well, I think that, first of all, it is absurd, because a few months ago he said that I took

00:18$500,000 to let her do an interview with me on my television show.

00:25So he's talking about the same election, same cycle.

00:29Donald Trump is running from the Epstein scandal.

00:35And when he couldn't make anything work last week, when they kept picking up traction, said

00:41he was going to fire the Fed chair, that didn't break the news cycle.

00:45Said he was going to fight with Putin about Ukraine, that didn't break the cycle.

00:51Had some foreign heads of state come in, that didn't break the cycle.

00:55He went to what he does all the time.

00:58He went to the race car.

01:00He decided one day he's going to, I think it was Wednesday, I'm sorry, Monday, he's going

01:06to release the FBI files on Martin Luther King.

01:12And then it's supposed to be a lot of stuff, rumors that we heard all down through the years.

01:17Everyone knows that J. Edgar Hoover was out to get Dr. King distorted records, fell flat.

01:23That didn't help him.

01:25Next day, he says, I want to see Barack Obama, former president, indicted for treason.

01:31That didn't help him.

01:32Then he comes with now Oprah Winfrey, Beyonce, and Al Sharpton were paid to endorse Kamala Harris.

01:43Kamala Harris needs to be investigated and they need to be investigated.

01:46He's using a lot of his whole thing.

01:48That's why he's going after all the blacks now.

01:51Don't forget, he started his political career with birtherism, that Barack Obama wasn't really

01:56an American.

01:57So he's going back to his favorite tunes and that's why he's going after Obama, Oprah,

02:02Beyonce and me.

02:03I read that you are thinking about suing him for defamation over this-

02:10Oh, we're talking to lawyers.

02:11The reason you have a basis to sue for defamation is if he had made the statement the first time

02:17and it wasn't answered, then he could say, well, that's what I was told.

02:21It was answered.

02:22So you made these statements over the weekend with full knowledge that what you were saying

02:26was not true.

02:28The filings at the Federal Election Commission where the Harris campaign filed, where they

02:33gave X amount of dollars, National Action Network and other civil rights groups and

02:38some groups got a lot more for get out the vote.

02:41You knew that I didn't get any personal money because it wasn't in the filing.

02:45That's defamation.

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