Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump doubled down on his attack on Kamala Harris’s racial background at a press conference on Thursday.
At a National Association of Black Journalists event last week, Trump said that he had known Vice President Harris for a “long time” and “she was always of 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?” he asked rhetorically. “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 became a Black person.”
On Thursday, Trump was asked about the comments by a reporter who inquired “How is she [Harris] only recently deciding to be Black” given her father’s Jamaican-American heritage and her graduation from a historically Black college.
“Well, you’ll have to ask her that question because she’s the one that said it. I didn’t say it. So you’ll have to ask her. And I very much appreciate that question. But you’ll have to ask her,” replied Trump. “But I’ve known her for a long time. I actually contributed to her campaign a long time ago
“But you’ll have to ask her about that. But, to me it doesn’t matter,” added Trump. “But to her, from her standpoint, I think it’s very disrespectful to both, really, whether it’s Indian or black, I think it’s very disrespectful about to me, it doesn’t matter.”
After Trump moved on, he disregarded a reporter repeatedly asking him why he raised the subject in the first place.
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