The ongoing "simmering distrust" of racial unrest in Ferguson is of the Obama administration's own making, conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza said in an interview to Newmax on Monday.

"The simmering distrust is to some degree the administration's own making," D'Souza, a frequent critic of U.S. President Barack Obama, said when asked by Newsmax's Steve Malzberg about the president's recent comments on Ferguson.

Specifically, he cited "race hustlers" such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton for having "perfected the art of manufacturing racial resentment."

"They have been sending their race hustlers into Ferguson to stir the pot," D'Souza said. "This is an old formula that goes back to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. In other words, if racism really were to disappear in America, those guys would be completely out of a job.

"They have perfected the art of manufacturing racial resentment. Even when there really shouldn't be any," he continued. "The conversion of this episode into a racial incident is entirely the making of agitators and of the Obama administration."

Last week, Rev. Al Sharpton criticized the Ferguson grand jury's decision, stating that the verdict was "an absolute blow" to the justice system.

"It was expected, but still an absolute blow to those of us that wanted to see a fair and open trial. I think that it is clear that even when you see a blow coming ... it still hurts nonetheless," Sharpton said late Monday evening from his Harlem, New York office, according to video posted by Mediaite.

"This is one case. You have another case with [Akai] Gurley," Sharpton said, referring to the unarmed black man who was accidentally killed last week by a police officer conducting a sweep through a Brooklyn housing project.

Back in August, D'Souza had said that the common thread between Ferguson and ISIS is "people who basically believe that the correction to perceived injustice is to inflict all kinds of new injustices," according to The Washington Times.

Meanwhile in September, D'Souza was sentenced by a U.S. federal judge to serve eight months in a community confinement center after he pleaded guilty to violating federal campaign finance law to make donations to a longtime friend.

He originally pleaded not guilty but reversed his plea on the eve of a trial back in late May, Deadline reported. "It was a crazy idea, it was a bad idea," D'Souza told Berman before being sentenced. "I regret breaking the law."

The director and star of "2016: Obama's America," which painted a bleak picture of the nation's future if the Democratic president was reelected, was ordered by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan to live in a center, which would allow him to leave during non-residential hours for employment, for the first eight months of a five-year probationary period.

Additionally, the 53-year-old was also ordered to perform one day of community service a week during probation, undergo weekly therapy and pay a $30,000 fine.

The conservative has maintained that he was targeted by the Obama administration for his political beliefs, Newsmax reported.