Trump repeats lies and attacks Kamala Harris's racial identity at panel of Black journalists

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Trump arrived more than an hour late to the panel, which was moderated by Scott; Harris Faulkner, the Fox News television host; and Kadia Goba, the Semafor politics reporter.
56% : Trump said, as the audience audibly gasped.
51% : Trump added: "I think it's disgraceful that I came here in good spirit.
40% : Throughout the panel conversation, Trump relied on many of his previous talking points with Black voters.
37% : According to HuffPost, Trump demanded that NABJ organizers not go through with live fact-checking during the discussion, and was in a "standoff" with organizers before the event took place.
31% : " Scott then asked Trump about Republicans claiming that Harris is a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) replacement for Joe Biden.
29% : On multiple occasions, audience members at the annual convention in Chicago attempted to fact-check Trump in real time, including when he falsely claimed that Harris did not pass her bar exam to be a lawyer, and when he defended pardoning people who were convicted for their actions on January 6.
27% : " Laura Washington, a political analyst at ABC 7 in Chicago, said Trump "came out very hostile" from the very beginning of the panel: "That was a very difficult thing for the [moderators] to manage because he didn't answer the questions and was sort of trying to turn their questions back on them and make them the bad women in the room.
26% : He repeated the unsubstantiated claim that undocumented immigrants were planning on taking "Black jobs", an assertion that many have condemned as racist. When asked by Scott to clarify what Black jobs were, Trump replied: "Anybody that has a job - that's what it is.
22% : The conversation opened with Scott asking why Black voters should trust Trump given his repeated, inflammatory comments about Black people.
22% : Despite promoting his attendance at NABJ on Wednesday morning, by the afternoon panel Trump was claiming to have been invited under false pretenses.
21% : In response, Trump claimed that Harris suddenly "became a Black woman" and had previously only been identifying with her Indian heritage.
12% : "Well, first of all, I don't think I've ever been asked a question in such a horrible manner," Trump said, before asking whether Scott was with "fake news network" ABC News.
7% : Chaotic event hosted by National Association of Black Journalists saw Trump lie about abortion and immigration During a contentious and chaotic panel hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) on Wednesday, Donald Trump parroted disinformation about immigration and abortion, questioned Kamala Harris's race and accused a panel moderator, Rachel Scott - the senior congressional correspondent for ABC News - of being "rude" and presenting a "nasty question" when she asked him: "Why should Black voters trust you?" The appearance - which received backlash earlier this week from Black journalists citing the former president's anti-Black, anti-journalist and anti-democracy history - received a mix of jeers, laughter and interruptions from attendees as Trump evaded several questions asked by moderators.

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