Trump acquaintance asks why ex-president's aides let him 'humiliate family' at town hall

MSNBC host Al Sharpton expressed a small amount of sympathy for Donald Trump on Wednesday morning, wondering why the former president's campaign staff didn't hustle him offstage at a Pennsylvania town hall when he stopped answering questions and danced instead for 39 minutes.

During an appearance on "Morning Joe" to discuss Trump's much-derided "dance party" at his Oaks, Pennsylvania, rally on Monday, Sharpton suggested Trump's team did their man no favors at a time when his cognitive abilities are under intense scrutiny.

After praising how Vice President Kamala Harris is comporting herself on the campaign trail, Sharpton expressed surprise that Trump's people let him remain standing on the stage swaying to the music and occasionally pumping his fists for almost forty minutes while his fans stood waiting.

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"I think they are fooling themselves if they think the momentum is the other way," he said of election prognosticators. "If you want to see somebody [Harris] that can answer questions and has a track record and opposed to somebody that just plays tracks that can't even dance to the tracks, then that's your choice."

"I mean, Donald Trump was embarrassing the other night to anybody that supports him," he added. "If I was there, I would have walked him off the stage if I was a supporter. How long do you let grandpa stand there and humiliate the family?"

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