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US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Kamala Harris has labelled comments by Donald Trump to black journalists as divisive and disrespectful.
Trump repeated a number of false claims regarding immigration, abortion, and Harris’s racial identity.
He was speaking at the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago.
I have been the best president for the black population since Abraham Lincoln.
Some Republicans have labelled Harris, the first Black and Asian American woman to serve as Vice President, a “DEI hire”, meaning Diversity, Equality and Inclusion.
After arguing with the interviewer over the meaning of those words, he said: “Could be. There are some.
“[Harris] was always of Indian heritage and she was always 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,” he said.
“I respect either one but she obviously doesn’t.”
Responding to a DEI question at the NABJ conference, former President Trump tells Black journalists:
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 31, 2024
Kamala Harris "was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden, she made a turn and she went, she became a Black person."https://t.co/E0kGuRQ86A pic.twitter.com/p8lnb0M4n5
Trump also alleged that Harris “didn’t pass her law exam”, which he was corrected on in real time.
Trump accused the interviewer of using a “hostile, nasty tone” when asking questions.
Attempting to appeal to the room, Trump said there are “millions” of people “coming from the border” who are “taking black jobs”.
Before he was last elected president he promised to “build a wall” to keep migrants out, which he did not do.
On reproductive rights – one of the hot topics of this election – he falsely said that the Democratic Party is “allowing the death of a baby after the baby is born” and “abortion in the ninth month”.
On his running mate JD Vance’s controversial view that those with children should have more votes than those without, Trump said: “It’s not something I’ve ever heard before.”
"The American people deserve better," VP Harris says of former President Trump's comments at the National Association of Black Journalists. "The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth ... who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts." pic.twitter.com/6x8vt9nJd5
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 1, 2024
Harris said Trump’s interview was “the same old show” and perpetuated “divisiveness and disrespect”.
“The American people deserve better. The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth, a leader who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts.
“We deserve a leader that understands that our differences do not divide us.”
Trump’s White House bid was thrown into chaos last month when President Joe Biden, 81, withdrew his candidacy, backing Harris as the Democratic nominee.
Since then, Harris has seen her favorability ratings jump and raked in over $200 million in campaign donations.
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A year ago it was “Get Brexit Done”. Then, they got and signed an “Oven ready deal” last December. All they’ve done since is complain about the deal they signed, threatened for the last 6 months to unilaterally bin it. Well done guys, great job.
@Damian Moylan: They got their Brexit and now wish they hadn’t us is my guess. In other words they were like Turkeys voting for Christmas with their oven ready deal.
@Damian Moylan: good summary of a wasted year
The next two weeks will be critical.
Looking at this from neutral point of view, there should not be a border on the Irish Sea nor should there be a border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Regardless of opinion, I would assume this is acceptable to most. Can’t we just go ahead and get on with it and live normal lives, please?
@Bran Brans: That is impossible unless the UK and the EU agree to be in a single customs union together. But this is not achievable as long as the British govt is intent on pursuing a policy of Brexit purity, with preferably no ties at all to the EU (as you see the protocol itself challenges that). I’m quite sure an eventual future govt will be more pragmatic and rejoin the EU customs union, but many years will undoubtedly pass before then, and until then we’ll have to make do with the protocol, which gives precedence to the principle that there’ll be no land border.
@Bran Brans: Why should there not be a border in the Irish Sea since there is an actual sea between NI and GB. Can you give a practical reason why, as in how the day to day lives of people in NI are affected by there being a border in the Irish Sea compared to an open land border between two jurisdictions with different standards and practices in goods and services?
@David F. Dwyer: from a UK point of view there is no border between English and Scotland or Wales so why should there be one between NI and the rest of the UK. That is like saying we could be divided by a border along the river Shannon i.e. the same logic. The actual illogical part is not having a border between the two sovereign states that share this island. Yes I know ideally we should have a United Ireland and no border and it will happen some day and then it is appropriate to have a border in the Irish sea. But again to look at it differently, it is like saying Kerry gold products cannot cross the Kerry border or indeed that we cannot ship headache tablets to the Arran Islands. An Irish sea border is an internal border in one sovereign state, and that is the issue..
@Niall Ó Cofaigh: I add that if people cannot see the issue they are ill equipped to discuss solutions. Personally the unique position of Northern Ireland nearly demands an Irish sea border and NI benefits in a manner that is unique giving it UK and EU market access at little if any cost. But we have to sell that idea to the UK government and others.
@Niall Ó Cofaigh: UK point of view? I asked him for a pragmatic reason not rhetoric; England, Scotland and Wales are in the jurisdiction (for now anyway) and do not share a land border with an EU state. How they feel about it is entirely beside the point.
Christmas what year ?????
Chess masters
@Patrick Fitzgibbon: Carlsen and Nepo, agreed.
@Patrick Fitzgibbon: they’re not even playing draughts
See those three their a pair of cuxts
@Alan Kelly: they’re
@Hugh Morris: gracias mi amigo
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