MSNBC’s Al Sharpton Dares Trump to Appoint Will Hurd to DNI: ‘It Would Prove All of Us Wrong’

EXCERPT:

SHARPTON: "I think that the real problem with that is that when you are in post-Trump world, which hopefully is sooner than later, but when he's no longer there, and you try to rebuild the party, you're going to have to show you can bring in people of color and women and others, and I think Will Hurd would have been in a great position by then, had he stayed, to be part of that appeal. I remember when I was growing up, in 1968, I was just a kid, just starting in activism. I might have been 14, 15. I remember that the leading guy in the U.S. Senate was a Republican named Ed Brooke. Jackie Robinson was a Republican. So, the church I grew up in, the bishop was a Republican. Blacks started going Democratic in the '60s around the civil rights movement. There is the possibility of broadening that as they rebuild the party that Trump has destroyed, but I think that Will Hurd would have been a likely person, as Tim Scott, to be part of that approach. The question is, and I think that's what Will Hurd had to deal with, could he survive Trump, where Trump is majoring in polarizing and majoring in trying to divide. And I think, it's interesting what Jolly raised, if Trump wants to show their critics [inaudible] appoint Will Hurd to the seat that's available. Now, he was in the CIA, he has the background, I dare Trump to do it. It would prove all of us wrong."

(h/t Mediaite)