A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on July 31, 2024.
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This was classic Trump-world: a chance to broaden the map, turned into a racial own-goal that handed opponents an easy line and reinforced every bad impression already baked into the race. The rest of the operation kept grinding forward, but the headline from July 31 was simple: when Trump needed discipline, he delivered another mess.
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During a July 31, 2024 Q&A at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago, Donald Trump said he did not know Kamala Harris was Black until “a number of years ago” and added that she had “turned Black.” Harris was not at the event.