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Subject: Bible Thumper Trump Loses Culture War
From: John Smyth
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Dump falsely claimed Wednesday that his 2024 Democratic rival, Vice
President Kamala Harris, �happened to turn Black� a few years ago, saying
that �all of a sudden, she made a turn� in her identity.

Trump�s comments at a gathering of Black journalists in Chicago came when
an interviewer asked him whether he agreed with Republicans on Capitol
Hill who have characterized Harris as a �DEI hire.� Trump responded by
questioning Harris� heritage.

�She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian
heritage. I didn�t know she was Black until a number of years ago, when
she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I
don�t know, is she Indian or is she Black?� the former president said.

�I respect either one, but she obviously doesn�t, because she was Indian
all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went � she
became a Black person,� he said at the National Association of Black
Journalists convention. �I think somebody should look into that too.�

Later Wednesday, speaking in Houston at a gathering of the Sigma Gamma
Rho sorority, Harris described the former president�s comments as �the
same old show, the divisiveness and the disrespect.�

�Let me just say, the American people deserve better,� she said.

Trump�s comments are reminiscent of his similar attacks on Black
political rivals in the past, including the years he spent pushing the
false, racist �birther� conspiracy theory that former President Barack
Obama was not born in the United States.

Harris� mother was Indian and her father is Jamaican; both immigrated to
the United States. Harris was born in Oakland, California, and attended a
historically Black university, Howard University, in Washington. She is
the first female, first Black and first Asian American vice president.

Trump on Wednesday was interviewed by a panel that included ABC News�
Rachel Scott, Semafor�s Kadia Goba and Fox News� Harris Faulkner.

Scott began the interview by asking Trump: �You have pushed false claims
about some of your rivals, from Nikki Haley to former President Barack
Obama, saying that they were not born in the United States, which is not
true. You have told four congresswomen of color, who were American
citizens, to go back to where they came from. You have used words like
�animal� and �rabid� to describe Black district attorneys. You have
attacked Black journalists, calling them a �loser,� saying the questions
they ask are, quote, �stupid� and �racist.� You�ve had dinner with a
White supremacist at your Mar-a-Lago resort. So my question, sir � now
that you are asking Black supporters to vote for you, why should Black
voters trust you after you have used language like that?�

A combative Trump responded: �Well, first of all, I don�t think I�ve ever
been asked a question so � in such a horrible manner, first question. You
don�t even say, �Hello. How are you?��
Trump goes after Black journalists conference moderator
02:38 - Source: CNN

He asked Scott if she was with ABC, saying the network was �a fake news
network� and �a terrible network.�

�I think it�s disgraceful that I came here in good spirit. I love the
Black population of this country. I�ve done so much for the Black
population of this country, including employment, including opportunity
zones with Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina,� the former president said.
�I�ve done so much, and, you know, I say this: Historically Black
colleges and universities were out of money, they were stone cold broke,
and I saved them. I gave them long-term financing, and nobody else was
doing it.�

�It�s a very rude introduction. I don�t know exactly why you would do
something like that,� Trump said.

Scott asked if Trump found it acceptable that some Republicans on Capitol
Hill have referred to Harris as a �DEI hire� � using the acronym for
diversity, equity and inclusion.

�I really don�t know. Could be. Could be,� he said.

Harris� husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, said Wednesday that
Trump�s remarks in Chicago reflected �a worse version of an already
horrible person.�

�The insults, the B.S. � it�s horrible, it�s terrible, it shows a lack of
character � but it�s a distraction,� Emhoff said at a campaign fundraiser
in Maine, according to The Washington Post. �It�s about what�s at stake
in this election.�

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre issued a fiery rejoinder
to Trump following his remarks at the convention, calling them
�repulsive� and �insulting.�

�As a person of color � as a Black woman, who is in this position that is
standing before you at this podium, behind this lectern � what he just
said, what you just read out to me, is repulsive. It�s insulting, and,
you know, no one has any right to tell someone who they are, how they
identify,� Jean-Pierre told reporters during a news briefing Wednesday.
�That is no one�s right. It is someone�s own decision.�

Harris� campaign did not specifically respond to Trump�s comment about
her racial identity but said the former president �lobbed personal
attacks and insults at Black journalists the same way he did throughout
his presidency.�

�Donald Trump has already proven he cannot unite America, so he attempts
to divide us,� Harris campaign spokesman Michael Tyler said in a
statement.

In Chicago on Wednesday, Trump also repeatedly criticized the NABJ for
the event�s set-up, which he said made it difficult to hear other
panelists and delayed the start of the event. A spokesperson for NABJ
told CNN that technology issues had delayed the start of the panel
discussion.

Trump in his remarks called himself �the best president for the Black
population since Abraham Lincoln,� a comment that drew audible groans
from the journalists in attendance. He ignored a follow-up question about
whether he was better than Lyndon B. Johnson, who signed the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

�I have been the best president for the Black population since Abraham
Lincoln,� he said. �For you to start off a question-and-answer period,
especially when you�re 35 minutes late because you couldn�t get your
equipment to work, I think it�s a disgrace. I really do, I think it�s a
disgrace.�
Daniel Dale fact-checks Trump's claims on Harris' race
02:21 - Source: CNN
Capitol rioters

Asked by Scott Wednesday if he would pardon January 6 rioters who
violently attacked police officers at the US Capitol in 2021, Trump said,
�Absolutely, I would.�

�If they�re innocent, I would pardon them,� he said.

Scott responded that they had been convicted.

�Well, they were convicted by a very tough system,� Trump said.

The former president criticized Capitol police officers for shooting and
killing rioter Ashli Babbitt, who was attempting to crawl through a
broken window leading to the Speaker�s Lobby outside the US House
chamber. And he complained that �nothing happened� to those who caused
property damage during Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020.

�Nothing happens to those people, but you went after the J6 people with a
vengeance,� Trump said.
Vance pick

Trump did not answer directly when asked by Fox News� Faulkner whether
his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, would be �ready on Day One to be
president.

�Historically, the vice president, in terms of the election, does not
have any impact � I mean, virtually no impact,� Trump said.

�You have two or three days where there�s a lot of commotion,� he said,
pointing to Harris� consideration of a running mate, �and then that dies
down, and it�s all about the presidential pick. Virtually never has it
mattered.�

�You can have a vice president who�s outstanding in every way, and I
think JD is � but you�re not voting that way. You�re voting for the
president,� Trump said.

This story has been updated with additional information.

CORRECTION: This story and headline have been updated to correctly
reflect Trump�s exact wording of one quote at the NABJ convention in
Chicago.

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