White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt pushed back Thursday on Newsmax on the Rev. Al Sharpton’s narrative that President Donald Trump is enacting a “segregated intervention” in crime-ridden cities across the country, calling Sharpton’s comments “utterly disgraceful.”
In an interview with MSNBC, Sharpton suggested that Trump’s proposed federal takeover of big cities nationwide had more to do with the skin color of their mayors instead of their soaring crime statistics.
“The president wants to make all of our cities safe, and the reason for this federal takeover of Washington, D.C., is because this is where the crime is happening,” Leavitt told “Wake Up America.” “There is violent crime that is taking the lives of far too many Black Americans, I will add, and Americans of all races, religions, creeds. The president wants to protect them and to make our streets safer and more beautiful.”
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