MSNBC’s Sharpton: Democrats have to ‘move on’ after ‘clear victory’ for Trump

MSNBC host Al Sharpton advised Democrats to “move on and really deal with hard issues” after special counsel Robert Mueller concluded that President Trump and his campaign associates did not collude or conspire with Russia leading up to the 2016 election.

“Democrats also now have to move on and really deal with hard issues,” Sharpton said on the network during special programming late Sunday. “I think the politics is that we’re now going to have to start talking about tax reform and climate change and other things because the Mueller situation, I think, has ended up a clear victory for the president.”

{mosads}”Rev. Al, listen, you have said this all along,” said fellow MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, who joined Sharpton after Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein provided Congress with a summary of the Mueller report, which sent shockwaves through Washington and the country.

“A lot of Democrats haven’t figured this out over the past couple of years,” Scarborough also said. “They have been distracted by the Mueller investigation, but you have understood, and I think the smarter people in the Democratic Party have understood, that they were never going to win elections talking about Russia. They were never going to win elections talking about Robert Mueller.”

“They’re going to win elections talking about — and by the way, check the tape. This isn’t Monday morning quarterbacking again. We have said it on the air together and you’ve said it and I’ve said it. It’s health care that people are concerned about. It’s wages that people are concerned about,” Scarborough added.

Democrats are demanding that the complete Mueller report be made public, with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) saying the Barr letter “raises as many questions as it answers,” particularly around obstruction of justice.

The Trump campaign is already on the offensive in the wake of the summary release of Mueller’s findings. The president has a campaign event later this week, when it’s almost certain he’ll make the Mueller report a central theme.