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Trump attacks Harris’ racial identity, saying she opted to ‘turn black’ for political gain
- At the National Association of Black Journalists conference, Trump said Harris identified as Indian but then ‘she became a black person’
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Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that Vice-President Kamala Harris had decided to “turn black” for political gain, as he attacked his Democratic White House rival during a combative and inflammatory interaction with African-American journalists in Chicago.
The Republican former president’s provocation marked an escalation of the 78-year-old’s vitriol against Harris, whom he falsely accused of having identified as Indian but then, “all of a sudden, she made a turn, and she became a black person.”
Harris, who has long identified as black and graduated from a historically black university, “was always of Indian heritage” but then “happened to turn black”, Trump told a conference of the National Association of Black Journalists.
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“So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she black?”
I think it’s disgraceful. I have been the best president for the black population since Abraham Lincoln
Trump’s identity assault was at the heart of a hostile interaction with black reporters, one of whom he berated for asking about his history of offensive remarks about black people.
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