After Dems Praise Al Sharpton, WaPo Publishes Devastating Piece Detailing His Ugly Past

In response to President Trump slamming Maryland's Rep. Elijah Cummings for letting Baltimore become a crime-ridden, "rat and rodent infested mess," activist Al Sharpton announced Monday that he'd be visiting the city in solidarity with the Democrat and the Baltimore community. Trump responded by taking aim at Sharpton in a blistering tweet: "Al is a con man, a troublemaker, always looking for a score. Just doing his thing. Must have intimidated Comcast/NBC. Hates Whites & Cops!"

That tweet in turn prompted Democrats, including some Democrat presidential candidates — among them former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA), Sen. Kamala Harris (CA), and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio — to come to Sharpton's defense. And they did more than just defend him; they praised him as "a champion in the fight for civil rights," as Biden put it. Sharpton even got a shot out at the start of the CNN-hosted debates Tuesday, Democrat National Committee Chairman Tom Perez celebrating his "leadership."

After the flood of effusive praise from the Democrat leadership, The Washington Post published an op-ed Thursday by Washington Examiner executive editor Seth Mandel seeking to set the record straight on the Democrat-lauded activist.

"Al Sharpton is not a lifelong fighter for justice," Mandel writes. Though Democrats are rushing to elevate him to stick it to Trump, Sharpton has "never reckoned with his past anti-Semitic rhetoric."

"Calling Sharpton a life-long fighter for 'justice' ignores his history of race-baiting and deadly anti-Semitic incitement," Mandel writes, before laying out some of the devastating details from Sharpton's past that he's never been forced to fully address and that Democrats have nearly uniformly whitewashed.

An excerpt: