Governor Swill wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Aug 2024 20:03:01 -0000 (UTC), Whitepeople <dfa@excite.com> wrote:
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> https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/31/politics/donald-trump-kamala-harris-black-nabj/index.html
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> I don't know why folks don't include the URL. That is essential to proving the article is
> posted correctly - without agenda driven edits.
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> #nevertrump
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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.

not too bright