On Sat, 3 Aug 2024 20:03:01 -0000 (UTC), Whitepeople <dfa@excite.com> wrote:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/31/politics/donald-trump-kamala-harris-black-nabj/index.html

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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.