{"id":54812,"date":"2024-08-01T19:04:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T09:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=54812"},"modified":"2024-08-01T19:04:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T09:04:25","slug":"trump-attacks-harriss-racial-identity-says-she-opted-to-turn-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=54812","title":{"rendered":"Trump attacks Harris&#8217;s racial identity, says she opted to &#8216;turn Black&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris had decided to &#8220;turn Black&#8221; for political gain, as he attacked his Democratic White House rival during a combative interaction with African American journalists in Chicago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Republican former president&#8217;s inflammatory comments marked an escalation of the 78-year-old&#8217;s vitriol against Harris, whom he falsely accused of having identified as Indian but then, &#8220;all of a sudden, she made a turn, and she became a Black person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harris, 59, has long identified as Black and graduated from a historically Black university.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I don&#8217;t know, is she Indian or is she Black?&#8221; asked Trump during a heated interview at the National Association of Black Journalists conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris had decided to &#8220;turn Black&#8221; for political gain, as he attacked his Democratic White House rival during a combative interaction with African American journalists in Chicago. The Republican former president&#8217;s inflammatory comments marked an escalation of the 78-year-old&#8217;s vitriol against Harris, whom he falsely accused of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2046],"class_list":["post-54812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-trump-attacks-harriss-racial-identity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}