Now We Know Why That Disastrous Trump Event Started So Late
Donald Trump almost didn’t take the stage at the National Association of Black Journalists conference earlier this week because he was terrified of being fact-checked.
The former president appeared on stage Wednesday more than an hour late to take part in a conversation moderated by ABC News’s senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner, and Semafor’s political reporter Kadia Goba.
Trump quickly complained about the delayed start, saying it had taken half an hour for the NABJ to get their sound equipment to work. Apparently, he was trying to get ahead of something else.
While there were some audio problems, “the bigger problem was his threat not to take the stage when he had agreed to go on. He did not want to be fact-checked, but we could not let him on the stage without fact-checking,” NABJ president Ken Lemon told Axios in a story published Friday.
The NABJ had arranged for Trump’s interview to be simultaneously fact-checked online in collaboration with Politifact. At one point, Trump’s team requested that the NABJ not post fact-checking to its social media accounts, or allow the moderator to discuss the fact-checking on stage, according to Lemon.
“Our whole team stood our ground,” Lemon told Axios.
The interview was supposed to last 1 hour, but when FoxNews Trump Sycophant Harris Faulkner brought up Project2025 to give Trump a chance to trumpet his lie that he is not involved with it his staff cut off the interview on fear of more questions on that subject. 34 minutes.
“Trump used his contentious appearance to launch racist attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris, including questioning her race as the crowd booed him.
Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, gushed to NOTUS Thursday, lauding Trump for being so brave about the whole event. “He actually goes into hostile audiences, he answers tough questions, he pushes back against them, but he actually answers them, and how nice it is to have an American leader who’s not afraid to go into hostile places and actually answer some tough questions,” Vance said.
However, it’s clear Trump is distinctly unwilling to go into hostile audiences, and was left scrambling for a way to back out when he knew his words would be held to account. His team ended up cutting off the event, which was scheduled to last an hour, after just 34 minutes. If his seething response to ABC’s Scott is any indication, Trump can’t take a tough question at all.”
Opinion: Trump tried to erase Harris’ identity at NABJ. It’s disgraceful.
“CHICAGO — Like her policies or not, there are two things we’ve known for years about Kamala Harris: She is the nation’s first female vice president, and she is both Black and Indian.
In one of the grossest moments in recent political history, Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s nominee for president of the United States, attempted to strip Harris of the birthright given to her by her Black Jamaican father and experience of life as a biracial woman in America.
“I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black,” the former president said of Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago on Wednesday.”
“Instead of taking the opportunity to prove the naysayers wrong, Trump — as others have noted — showed the world what he really thinks of Black people ― Black women in particular. He is repulsed by us.”
Donald Trump’s Pants on Fire claim at NABJ about how Kamala Harris ‘became’ Black
“PolitiFact’s ruling
Trump said Harris was Indian and then “made a turn” and “became a Black person.”
This is blatant mischaracterization of Harris’ heritage and how she has spoken about, and has identified with, her racial background and ethnicity.
Harris, born of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, has long identified as a Black woman who grew up in a multicultural household. She attended a historically Black university, pledged an historically Black sorority, and has given interviews and written about her experience embracing her Indian culture while living as a Black woman.
Pants on Fire!”
Trump Doubles Down on “Kamala Isn’t Black” Argument With New Photo
“Donald Trump is proving he’s racist and stupid with his latest post.”
Stories like this:
How Trump’s attacks on prosecutors build on history of using racist language and stereotypes
“NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s aggressive response to his fourth criminal indictment in five months follows a strategy he has long used against legal and political opponents: relentless attacks, often infused with language that is either overtly racist or is coded in ways that appeal to racists.
The early Republican presidential front-runner has used terms such as “animal” and “rabid” to describe Black district attorneys. He has accused Black prosecutors of being “racist.” He has made unsupported claims about their personal lives. And on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump has deployed terms that rhyme with racial slurs as some of his supporters post racist screeds about the same targets.”
Prompted this first question (that Trump didn’t appreciate)
Received this Trump answer:
My twitter thread (34 minutes, it was supposed to be an hour, 20 questions, 5 answers, 6 ugly remarks and 24 lies)
I created a question for Donald Trump
Trump lies a lot!
What used to be my GOP could use some DEI!
Project 2025?
