These stories are coming mostly through the NY Post, one of the few good papers left in the US. It’s also the oldest, btw.
I think some of the Al Sharpton stuff is aimed at further discrediting the wildly unpopular, dictatorial leftist NYC mayor De Blasio and his entire corrupt circle before they destroy NYC even further.
The only group among which De Blasio enjoys any support at all is blacks, and he relied on the black racial pressure groups very heavily in his campaign. Obviously, Obama, by showing up for a speech at Sharpton’s racist pressure group convention, is publicly throwing in his lot with this faction. He clearly thinks that’s where the power is, and he may be right, because racial intimidation certainly has been effective for radical leftist Democrats.
Don’t forget that Al spends huge amounts of time at the WH and is referred to as one of Obama’s advisors.
Many people in NYC hate Sharpton for all his crimes over the years, which range from whipping up the Tawana Brawley hoax to causing the deaths of several people in the Brooklyn riots and the Freddie’s fire in Harlem, to plain old corruption: yet even though he has even been found guilty of various charges in connection with these things, he has never been punished. He’s so useful to the Dems that he is surrounded by a circle of impunity.
This might break it.
The NY Post, doing the hard work that the NY Times, CNN, CBS, etc., etc. refuse to do.