Former President Donald Trump’s racist remark about Vice President Kamala Harris’ heritage was swiftly debunked by CNN’s fact-checking reporter Daniel Dale on Wednesday.
GOP nominee Trump falsely instructed on the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists conference that Harris, his probably Democratic rival within the 2024 election, had traditionally promoted her Indian heritage and had solely not too long ago leaned into her id as a Black lady for political achieve.
However that’s “simply not true,” mentioned Dale.
“I rapidly, simply by way of Google and with the assistance of CNN’s ‘KFILE’ workforce, Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, discovered a number of examples of her speaking about her Black id going again a long time,” Dale defined.
Harris’ “biography on the official web site of the San Francisco district legal professional web page recognized her as an African-American lady,” he continued. “I discovered an article in Politico that quoted her speaking about her Black id and talking out in opposition to anti-Black racism in 1989 as a legislation pupil.”
It’s “not some kind of sudden id conversion” as Trump claimed, Dale mentioned. “That’s simply fully fictional.”
Dale additionally fact-checked the “laundry record” of different false claims that Trump made elsewhere throughout his look — from abortion rights to immigrants to inflation.
Watch Dale’s full evaluation right here:
