Scarborough: Martin Luther King ‘Was Foreseeing the White Audience at Donald Trump’s Black Church Event’

SCARBOROUGH: “Al, we got the breaking news this weekend when Donald Trump spoke in a black church filled mainly with white people that some of his best friends are black.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Mm-hmm.”
SCARBOROUGH: “What say you?”
Sharpton: “I say that I’ve probably all of my life heard every bigot I’ve ever talked to say that, that’s usually the opening line, that some of my best friends are black. And you say that being defensive because it shouldn’t be given that you have friends that are black, the fact that you have to say it tells us that you really do have some bias tendencies, if not an outright bigot. I also think that it takes real effort to go to a black church and have mostly whites in the audience. I mean, in Detroit —“
BRZEZINSKI: “What is that.”
Sharpton: “— I’ve never — I’ve never heard it. I’ve been preaching all my life and I’ve never seen a black church in Detroit, where the majority of the people in the audience are white. And then you leave there and you go to a real right-wing conference, which draws a white supremacists. So I think Donald Trump more defined —“
SCARBOROUGH: “Yeah.”
Sharpton: “— himself to black voters this weekend that he was able to —“
BRZEZINSKI: “Yeah.”
Sharpton: “— appeal to them.”
SCARBOROUGH: “You know —“
BRZEZINSKI: “And to — to be clear, a black church full of white people, is a black church full of white people.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Yes, it is. (Laughter) To be clear, when Martin Luther King said the most segregated hour in America every week is the hour that people worship at church. Well, he was foreseeing the white audience at Donald Trump’s black church event.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Oh, my God. OK.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Molly?”
Jong-Fast: “Yes, for sure. I mean, I think some of this is Trump trying to get — give a permission structure to try to prove — to prove or to pretend to more mainstream —“
BRZEZINSKI: “Yeah.”
Jong-Fast: “— voters that he’s not racist, so that they will vote for him. I don’t think that he actually believes — and again, the rev can speak to this much better than I can — that he can actually win black voters.”