Al Sharpton on if He Was Paid for Endorsing Harris: ‘Absolutely Not’!

LEMIRE: “Good to see you. We have a couple of questions for you on this, but let’s just start most — you know, simply with the accusation that President Trump has leveled at you. Were you paid for an endorsement?”
SHARPTON: “Well, absolutely not. And as — as the FEC filing say, they helped the campaign or gave funds for Get Out the Vote campaigns for National Action Network, of which I’m a part of, and other civil rights groups, some which got more than National Action Network. And National Action Network nor I even endorsed her. What is interesting about this, though, is that the fact that this is the as you accurately reported second or third time lawyers for National Action Networks looking at can we sue him for defamation because he had knowledge this time that there was no endorsement and that I didn’t get any money. This went to the nonprofit that I’m connected to. But let’s look at the larger picture here. Donald Trump is in very serious problems around this whole question of Epstein. So last week he was trying to flood the zone to take any pressure off of him and try to put his MAGA base back together again. The fact is, he started by saying he’s going to fire the Fed chief. That didn’t work. Then he went on to something about tariffs. That didn’t work. Then he decided to do what he started his political career on. Start race baiting, which was he started with birtherism that Obama wasn’t born here. Then he went and released the files now last week of Martin Luther King, Jr., some of which are very questionable. And the family was opposed to him doing it. That didn’t work. The next day he goes after Barack Obama saying he ought to be prosecuted. That didn’t work. Then he tried something else. Then over the weekend, Kamala Harris, Oprah Winfrey, Beyonce, Al Sharpton. The race card, the threat here is race. And that’s what he’s trying to do. They’re swapping money. They’re doing things like Obama was holding back with Russia. It’s all about trying to get past Epstein. We have shown in National Action Network and other groups what we did and didn’t do in the campaign. Even when I spoke at the convention, I said we don’t endorse candidates. We have come with our files. Release the Epstein files, Mr. Trump. Do what we did or be quiet.”