Discussion: Former Trump Adivser To Sharpton: 'I Humbly Ask For Your Forgiveness'

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This is about Trump and his adviser right, and the fact that Nunberg wrote some racist and offensive crap partially directed at Al Sharpton and his daughter. What is with the attack Sharpton crap? Whether he owes taxes or anything at all, that doesn’t justify some jerk like Nunberg insulting him and his family or random posters with bad attitudes trying to make it about Al Sharpton.

There are many apologies that should be made and made from the heart with true remorse. Nunberg is making himself out to be a worse person and so are those that turn his actions into attacks on Sharpton or some other personal bitch.

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"Yes, it was inexcuseable what Sam Nunberg said " is what I said.

So … I can’t go after Reverend Al Or his daughter Dominique when they are clearly stealing from their charities. I could add another 100 lines to this post about the abuses they inflict on poor black people but you for some reason have a problem with that.

If it will make you feel better I’ll go after Trump and his three corporate bankruptcies in the last four years and all the trades people who got stiffed building his casino in Atlantic City,or his 3-4 military deferments that kept him out of harm’s way while I got conscripted and sent to Vietnam.

Feel better now?

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You mean like Trump?

If we are still on Sharpton and this belief that he is a grifter, please state your case. Leave nothing out.

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This stunningly clueless troll is amusing. Dunning-Kruger afflicted, fo’ sho’.

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So … I can’t go after Reverend Al Or his daughter Dominique when they are clearly stealing from their charities. I could add another 100 lines to this post about the abuses they inflict on poor black people but you for some reason have a problem with that.

Which is why they’re serving time as we sp…oh, wait, they’re not. I guess the police and prosecutors are a bunch of incompetent boobs.

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“You mean like Trump?”

Yes like Trump but Reverend Sharpton, a Dem, steals from the poor he professes to support and protect from the very charities he and his daughter have set up is far far worse. And if you need any details just scroll up a few posts. Some of it’s there, the rest you might research by yourself, if you’re so inclined. that’s all the work I’ll do for you. Also, try and provide a little more content other than a few questions. That’s the easy part.

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Like “everyone knows” you’re a right-wing troll.

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“clueless”? How so. I think I’ve provided enough content to support my position. Can you do better or are you just playing the dumbass with one word descriptions.

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You provided epithets, not evidence. Look, I am mischaracterizing you to the exact extent you are mischaracterizing Sharpton and his family. Why you have it in for them, I’m not sure, but it is unbecoming, especially in the context of this post.

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Though we have just met and though I am sure that you are a diligent researcher; one term that I’m not really fond of is the following term: Google it.

Oh well.

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Which is the “grifter” part? A “grifter” is someone who swindles others through deception and fraud, but so far all you mention are tax issues, being acquitted for felony theft (which in your mind is obviously proof of guilt), and losing a defamation suit. Where is the grifting?

Let me ask you something that should have already occurred to you: do you think Al Sharpton does his own taxes? He’s clearly hired some less than reputable, or perhaps just incompetent, accountants, or maybe he has ongoing batlles with the IRS. Lots of people do. Is that what makes him a “grifter”? Do you consider everyone with a tax lien to be a “grifter”? I guess that means I’m a grifter too.

You seem to think you’re privy to all of Sharpton’s inner financial matters but that’s obviously nonsense. You google him, looking for things you can frame in a negative light, while apparently believing that Al Sharpton is the only public figure with tax issues. The hatred you feel for this man is the only thing that comes through loud and clear in your lengthy post. You have the balls to suggest that borrowing money to put his daughter through college is some kind of heinous offense.

Maybe you don’t see the ease with which you leap from describing someone with IRS issues to the pejorative “grifter.” Sentences like “Mr. Sharpton has regularly sidestepped the sorts of obligations most people see as inevitable, like taxes, rent and other bills.” are so laden with racial innuendo that there is no other conclusion to reach regarding your vitriol for Sharpton.

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I followed Sharpton befor the Brawley Saga when I was working in the city. He was one of the city’s jesters, Fat Albert with the big hair. Back then he was just another city character. You could see him on the street with reporters holding a “news conference”. Even the cops found him amusing.
After Brawley, not so amusing.

During Brawley investigation Sharpton said that a cop was one of the attackers. That cop, Harry Crist, committed suicide shortly after. Sharpton’s accusation. He also accused Stephen Pagones, a NY prosecutor, as an other attacker. Pagones’ life was ruined.

In 1991 he incited a riot when a young plack person was run over in Brooklyn by an Hasidic ambulance. Sharpton called Jews “diamond merchants” with “the blood of innocent babies” on their hands. A black mob then attacked and killed a young Hasidic student visiting America.

A few years later, an African-American Pentecostal church asked a Jewish tenant of a church-owned property, Freddie Fashion’s Mart, to evict one of his subtenants, an African-American-run record store. Sharpton led protests crying, “We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.” One of the protesters attacked Freddie Fashion Mart, shot several customers, and started a fire that killed seven employees.

And today, the old worn out hacks of the Democratic Party still bow to “Reverend Al”. It’s really disgusting.

But to your weak post:

“Which is the “grifter” part? A “grifter” is someone who swindles others through deception and fraud,…”

Stealing from your own charities would classify someone as a grifter.

“Let me ask you something that should have already occurred to you: do you think Al Sharpton does his own taxes? He’s clearly hired some less than reputable…”

You can’t be serious. Really weak. He has a long history of not paying his due taxes. Please.

"You seem to think you’re privy to all of Sharpton’s inner financial matters but that’s obviously nonsense. "

WTF does that mean? Privy to his inner financial matters? try harder.

“Sentences like “Mr. Sharpton has regularly sidestepped the sorts of obligations most people see as inevitable, like taxes, rent and other bills.” are so laden with racial innuendo…”

Not my quote and you’re the one that sees racial innuendos. Laughable. It applies to Trump as well, considering all the people he stiffed in his corporate bankruptcies. But he’s white?

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You have still failed, miserably, to prove your charge of “grifter.” You claim, “Stealing from your own charities would classify someone as a grifter.” Yet you yourself stated that Sharpton was “acquitted of felony charges that he stole $250,000 from his youth group.” Indeed, your emphasis on Tawana Brawley proves you are stuck in the past. I’ve lived in NYC for 41 years, and I too was aghast at the Brawley affair. But, unlike you, I did not close my mind off at that point to the possibility that Sharpton – or any of the participants – might move on to become productive members of society. Mason and Maddox failed. Sharpton succeeded. It’s only the racists like you who insist he is still the same “Fat Al” as he was 43 years ago.

Frankly, people who write “WTF does that mean, try harder” are clearly flailing for responses. In fact, all your responses here are rehashed high school retorts lacking in substance and wit. You say “WTF does that mean?” when I point out that you are not privy to Sharpton’s inner financial matters. This is pretty straightforward for anyone who speaks English. It means you don’t know what kind of rulings the IRS may have made that did not comport with the beliefs of Sharpton’s accountants regarding penalties and deductibles, yet you imply that anyone with an IRS dispute and debt is necessarily a criminal. I think I made that clear already but I don’t mind repeating it for the slow-witted.

Now here’s a legitimate WTF for you: You wrote in your post above “Mr. Sharpton has regularly sidestepped the sorts of obligations most people see as inevitable, like taxes, rent and other bills. Records reviewed by The New York Times show more than $4.5 million in current state and federal tax liens against him and his for-profit businesses.”

Now you claim the first sentence of the paragraph is “Not my quote”. WTF does that mean? The statement is not attributed to anyone else and appears without quotations. Are you suffering from some kind of dementia as a side dish to your racism? Or are you just a plagiarist who has no clue about attributing other sources?

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"You say “WTF does that mean?” when I point out that you are not privy to Sharpton’s inner financial matters. " What you said:

“You seem to think you’re privy to all of Sharpton’s inner financial matters but that’s obviously nonsense.”

No, I don’t think I’m privy to all of Al’s financial matters. Yet you imply as much. That’s why you got “the WTF does that mean?”

You’re awfully naive for a New Yorker. Where do you think the $250,000 went? Do you think the mail room clerk stole it? And Al was pulling down a 75,000 salary back in the '80’s from his NAN charity. For what? On top of that his National Action Network has not been - for years - not paying federal payroll taxes on its employees. And then there’s this from the NYT last November:

In 2009, when the group still owed $1.1 million in overdue payroll taxes, Mr. Sharpton began collecting a salary of $250,000 from National Action Network. The recent Treasury report that called that sort of practice abusive also said only 1,200 organizations in the nation owed more than $100,000 in unpaid payroll taxes, which would put Mr. Sharpton’s group among the most delinquent nonprofit organizations in the nation.

Still want to blame his accountant?

“yet you imply that anyone with an IRS dispute and debt is necessarily a criminal.”

Do I? Where is that stated? That deserves another WTF?

“Mason and Maddox failed. Sharpton succeeded.”

Tell it to the family of Officer Crist and to the family of Mr. Pagones. And after you’re done there’s the family of the Hasidic student and the families of the seven employees who lost their children.

“Not my quote”. It was from the NYT.

I’m done but I must say considering all the decades of abuse, stealing from charities, and ruining families’ lives, that you still defend him. It’s actually embarrassing. This black man doesn’t need your liberal must protect the black man meme. He needs prosecution.

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“You’re awfully naive for a New Yorker. Where do you think the $250,000 went?”

So that’s what acquittal means? Not guilty but hiding the money somewhere else?

““Not my quote”. It was from the NYT.”

Without mention or attribution. You’re not only a racist, you’re a cheesy plagiarist as well.

“This black man doesn’t need your liberal must protect the black man meme. He needs prosecution.”

And yet there are no outstanding indictments anywhere but in your head.

Watching you twist yourself into a pretzel to defy common definitions is a little too much hilarity for one day.

Thanks for the giggles but there are serious people that require my attention.

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As they say in CA, have a nice day.