Trump Gets Combative in Interview at Black Journalists’ Conference, Drawing Jeers for Questioning Harris’s Ancestry

At one point, the former president said Vice President Harris ‘all of a sudden’ became Black.

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President Trump with ABC's Rachel Scott, Fox News's Harris Faulkner, and Semafor's Nadia Goba at the National Association of Black Journalists convention, July 31, 2024, at Chicago. AP/Charles Rex Arbogast

In a combative interview with three reporters from the National Association of Black Journalists, President Trump dodged pivotal questions about what he hopes to accomplish in a second term, and at one point claimed that Vice President Harris became Black “all of a sudden” for political purposes. 

In a sit-down interview with ABC News’s Rachel Scott, Semafor’s Kadia Goba, and Fox News’s Harris Faulkner, Trump was asked by Ms. Scott about comments he had made about Black politicians and prosecutors, including his years-long questioning of President Obama’s birth certificate.

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