6 Thunderous Trump Takedowns That Got Some Serious Love From DNC Crowd
Vice President Kamala Harris brought a historic Democratic National Convention to a close with a speech outlining her vision for America’s future on Thursday.
And a number of DNC speakers used the hours leading up to Harris to scorch former President Donald Trump.
The Rev. Al Sharpton told the Chicago crowd that all the GOP nominee has been consistent on is “making himself richer” and “sowing division to get that done.”
“This man sat right here in Chicago a few weeks ago refusing to apologize for claims that migrants were taking Black jobs,” said Sharpton of Trump, who was asked about his “Black jobs” remarks during his chaotic appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention last month.
“Well, in November, we’re gonna show him when Blacks do their jobs.”
Sharpton’s speech was followed by remarks by Yusef Salaam, a member of the exonerated “Central Park Five” that was wrongly accused of an assault in 1989. Prior to the group’s trial, Trump paid $85,000 for a full-page newspaper ad calling for New York to bring back the death penalty.
Salaam, now a New York City councilmember, declared that America “will finally say goodbye to that hateful man” when “they see us.”
“We will say what I have said after seven long years of wrongful incarceration: Free at last, free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last,” Salaam said.
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), Generation Z’s first congressman, later took the DNC stage where he emphasized that it’s “patriotic” to fight climate change before turning to the GOP nominee.
“Unlike Donald Trump, our patriotism is more than some damn slogan on a hat. It’s about giving a damn about the people who live in this country,” said Frost as the crowd erupted in