Trump Surrogates Already Spinning ‘Turned Black’ Comments
Hours after Donald Trump’s controversial interview at a National Association of Black Journalists conference, the former president’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt began spinning his incorrect assertions that Vice President Kamala Harris “happened to turn Black.”
“What this showed is that President Trump is unafraid to show up and to have these difficult and hostile conversations in environments,” Trump’s Leavitt told host Connell McShane on NewsNation on Wednesday night.
“He rightfully pointed out that her parents are Jamaican and Indian heritage. That is a fact,” Leavitt said after McShane questioned her about Trump’s jaw-dropping remarks. Trump did not directly mention Harris’ father Donald J. Harris, a Jamaican-American retired Stanford professor, in his remarks at the NABJ conference.