During an off the rails appearance at a gathering for Black journalists Donald Trump just couldn’t resist doing the one thing you don’t do at a gathering for Black journalists.
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“She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black until several 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 was quoted as saying during the event in response to a question whether or not he believed Harris was a DEI hire.
“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.”
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