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Trump's attack on Harris: "She turned black"
Emil Forsberg
Published 2024-07-31 21.36
Donald Trump has attacked Kamala Harris again.
In a hearing, he says that she "suddenly changed her identity"
- She turned black, he says.
Donald Trump was asked at a convention for black journalists in Chicago on Wednesday.
When asked why black voters would support a candidate with Trump's history of racist attacks on political rivals, the ex-president chose to go on the attack again.
Now against rival Kamala Harris.
- She has always said that she was of Indian origin and she only emphasized her Indian origin. I didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to be black and now she wants to be known as black. So I don't know, is she Indian or black?
He continues:
- I respect both, but obviously she doesn't because she was Indian all the way and then suddenly she made a turn and became a black person. I think someone should look into it.
Donald Trump.
1 / 2Photo: Charles Rex Arbogast / AP
The White House reacts strongly to the play.
- It's disgusting. Offensive. No one has any right to tell others who they are, says President Joe Biden's press secretary, Karine Jean Pierre.
- She is the vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris. She needs to be shown respect. Point.
Flipped Obama
Kamala Harris' mother is from India and her father from Jamaica. Both immigrated to Oakland, California, where Harris was then born.
CNN likens the attack to the one Trump directed at Barack Obama in 2011 when he claimed that the country's first African-American president was not born in the United States.
Obama chose to release his Hawaiian birth certificate shortly thereafter, but it was another five years before Trump would admit he was wrong.
- President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period. Now I want everyone to come back and make America strong and good again, he said then, according to the AP.
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