‘Repulsive’: KJP Disparages Trump’s Comments About Kamala Harris’s Race At Black Journalists Event

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During a White House press briefing on Wednesday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about former President Donald Trump’s interview at the National Association for Black Journalists convention.

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00:00If I can ask you about something that's happening at the NABJ right now. Donald

00:03Trump is speaking to some of the reporters who were assembled there and

00:06right out of the gates there was what can best be described as a contentious

00:10exchange where the former president said, I'm asking this through the lens of

00:14someone who represents the president, vice president, not someone who has to

00:17speak as a campaign question. He says of Kamala Harris, the vice president, she

00:21was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I

00:25didn't know she was black until a number of years ago and she happened to turn

00:28black, he said, and now she wants to be known as black. So I didn't know is she

00:32Indian or is she black. She has always, this is unclear, I respect either one, but

00:39she obviously doesn't because she was Indian all the way and then all of a

00:41sudden she made a turn and she went black. Your response to those comments?

00:48He is a candidate so I'm going to be super careful. Wait, no, no, no, hold on, hold

00:53on, I have more to say, I certainly have more to say. As a person of color, as a

01:00black woman who is in this position that is standing before you at this

01:04podium behind this lectern, what he just said, what you just read out to me is

01:09repulsive, it's insulting, and you know no one has any right to tell someone who

01:17they are, how they identify, that is no one's right. It is someone's own decisions,

01:23it is, I'll add this, only she can speak to her experience, only she can speak to

01:35what it's like. She's the only person that can do that and I think it's

01:42insulting for anybody, it doesn't matter if it's a former leader, a former

01:48president, it is insulting and we have to put, she is the Vice President of the

01:55United States, Kamala Harris, we have to put some respect on her name, period.

‘Repulsive’: KJP Disparages Trump’s Comments About Kamala Harris’s Race At Black Journalists Event

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