Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump recently doubled down on his attack on Kamala Harris’s racial background at a press conference on Thursday via Mediaite.
At a National Association of Black Journalists event last week, Trump stated 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.”
Trump was asked regarding the remarks 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 because I was a developer. I contributed to lots of campaigns of Democrats, Republicans, and some were liberal and some were conservative.”
“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 ignored a reporter repeatedly asking him why he raised the subject in the first place.
