Why he was at NABJ
Trump’s appearance at the convention came as he continues to try to court Black voters. With Harris’ entrance into the 2024 election, Trump faces a stronger challenge with less than 100 days until the November contest.
Asked to clarify his reasoning for attending NABJ, Trump again tried to claim that migrants are taking “Black jobs” — comments he has faced backlash over.
When asked to clarify what a “Black job” is, Trump said: “A Black job is anybody that has a job. That’s what it is.”
He then resumed his assertion about migrants and tore into Harris for her handling of the border. Trump and other Republicans have claimed she is the “border czar” though she was assigned by Biden to address the root causes of migration.
On Vance’s past comments and VP’s impact
Trump attempted to play cleanup on his vice presidential pick Sen. JD Vance’s comments on “childless cat ladies,” reiterating his past remarks that Vance was simply talking about his love for family.
“What he’s saying is that he thinks the family experience is a very important thing. It’s a very good thing,” Trump said.
“But that doesn’t mean that if you grow up and you grow older and you don’t meet somebody — that would be wonderful to meet and would have been good — that, that’s a bad thing. He’s not saying that. That would be my interpretation — you’ll have to ask him actually, but my interpretation is he’s strongly family oriented,” Trump continued.
Pressed further if he agrees with Vance that people with children should have more votes than those who don’t, Trump dodged the question, again saying he believes undocumented immigrants should not have votes even though foreign nationals are already prohibited from participating in federal elections.
Trump then defended Vance as a successful person, praising him for going to Yale University.
Later asked if he believed Vance would be “ready on Day 1,” Trump said he respects Vance but again said “I think this is well documented historically, the vice president, in terms of the election, does not have any impact. No impact.”
On Sonya Massey and police immunity
Trump was also asked about Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who was shot and killed in her Illinois home by a police officer, and whether that police officer should have immunity.
“I don’t know the exact case, but I saw something,” Trump said. “And it didn’t look, it didn’t look good to me.”
Nonetheless, he went on to advocate for his campaign trail policy for indemnifying police officers.
“If a group of people would feel that somebody was being unfairly prosecuted because the person did a good job, maybe with crime, or made a mistake, an innocent mistake, there’s a big difference between being a bad person, and making an innocent mistake, but if somebody made an innocent mistake, I would want to help that person,” he said.
Pressed on how those distinctions would work, Trump couldn’t give a specific answer, going on to praise police officers for having difficult jobs.
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