President TrumpDonald John TrumpBirx says she’s hopeful about coronavirus vaccine but urges people to ‘do the right thing today’ McGahn argued Kushner’s security clearance should be downgraded: book Wisconsin governor urges Trump not to visit Kenosha: ‘I am concerned your presence will only hinder our healing’ MORE on Thursday drew swift backlash after he declined to disavow a baseless and racist conspiracy theory that Sen. Kamala HarrisKamala HarrisNRA: Biden will destroy Second Amendment if elected A Trump victory promises 4 more years of American carnage Crump: White House has not contacted Blake family but ‘we will see’ MORE (D-Calif.) would not be eligible to serve as vice president.
At a press conference, Trump asked about an editorial in Newsweek that he shared through a crusader adviser who raised the option that Harris, who was born in Oakland, California, to immigrant parents, did not meet the needs to fill the Office.
The president, who spent much of President Obama’s time in the workplace promoting the racist and unfounded “birth theory” that he was not born in the United States, said he “had no idea” if Harris was not eligible for vice president.
“I just heard that. I hear he doesn’t qualify,” he said.”And, by the way, the lawyer who wrote this article is a highly qualified and talented lawyer.”
“I don’t know if that’s true. I would have assumed that democrats would have verified this before she chose to run for vice president,” she continued. “I don’t know. I just found out. I’ll take a look at it.”
Trump referring to a Newsweek column through John Eastman, a conservative lawyer who questioned the citizenship reputation of Harris’ parents at the time of his birth.The column retwed through Jenna Ellis, an adviser to Trump’s crusade.
Harris is eligible for the position of vice president and is the first woman of color to be nominated on a primary party’s presidential price list.
Democrats and some of Trump’s critics temporarily criticized the president for upholding the conspiracy theory about the senator.
“Donald Trump was the national leader of the gruesome and racist birth motion opposed to President Obama and sought to fuel racism and set aside our country every day of his presidency,” said Andrew Bates, spokesman for Biden’s crusade.Not surprising, but no less abhorrent, that while Trump is becoming an idiot in trying to distract other Americans from the horrific record of his failed reaction to the coronavirus, his crusade and allies embrace depressing and evidently false lies.in his pathetic despair.”
Democratic lawmakers temporarily piled up, accusing Trump of dealing racism.
“White supremacy is a formula of trust in the concept that other people of color, especially other black people, are fundamentally illegitimate as citizens or equivalent human beings,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez O’Rourke backs Kennedy to the Senate: “A champion of values that we are very proud of,” the GoP distorts Biden’s power schedule in the Republican conference talks point to the accusation of socialism Florida audience tweeted MORE (DN.Y.). “Challenging the citizenship of elected officials of color, especially when the answer is obvious, is one of the ways in which this manifests itself.”
“Oh, look, @realDonaldTrump doubles racism again, this time a repeat of their racist things by birth,” Representative Ted Lieu Ed W. General LieuPostmaster has won millions from a company connected to the postal service: Report The Hill’s 12:30 Report: Postal Service Crisis intensifies Two Democrats calling for a criminal investigation by the Minister of Posts MORE (D-Calif.) Tweeted. “That’s all @POTUS has left: the politics of racial grievances. He failed the economy. He failed the pandemic. He failed health care. He’s going to lose in November.”
“Trump’s birtherism was racist in 2011. Trump’s birtherism is racist in 2020. It’s that simple,” the representative Don Beyer (D-Va.) tweeted.
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