If Sharpton could, he would. Having the personality of a piss fermented turnip festering at the bottom of the bin, he'd soon starve as a legit con man.
Instead he went the Rev route for fleecing, and exploited, instigated, and promulgated literal lies in a lame attempt to propel himself into this charlatan wannabe civil rights figure whose buffoonery - like the rest of the offal that keeps sprouting from here hoping to hit the States-wide stage - is so utterly lacking in charm or humor that it makes Ed Koch seem almost appealing as well as the last one round these parts to have any, sadly.
I'm a tad too young to remember the details pertaining to Bela Abzug, but gosh, I miss those days. Back when being a character meant something more than being a festering open sore of an irritant.
Sharptan and Trump are cut from the same cloth, except for the rich daddy thing.
How I've wished for decades them and the rest would just shut their damn traps.