Trump questions whether Kamala Harris is Black in combative interview [Video]

On Wednesday at the country’s largest annual gathering of Black journalists, U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said ‘She was Indian all the way, and all of a sudden she made a turn and became a Black person’ referring to his opponent in the presidential race Kamala Harris. Bob Butler of the National Association of Black Journalists, who witnessed Trump’s attack, said ‘you could hear the gasp in the room.’

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump falsely suggested to the country’s largest annual gathering of Black journalists on Wednesday that his Democratic rival Kamala Harris had previously downplayed her Black heritage.

“She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting 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,” Trump said, drawing a smattering of jeers from an …

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