Karine Jean-Pierre slams Trump for ‘repulsive’ Kamala Harris ‘Black woman’ comment

Karine Jean-Pierre reacts to Trump's claim Harris recently ‘became a Black woman'Source Reuters

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00:00If I can ask you about something that's happening at the NABJ right now, Donald Trump is speaking

00:04to some of the reporters who assembled there and right out of the gates there was what

00:08can best be described as a contentious exchange where the former president said, and I'm asking

00:13this through the lens of someone who represents the president and vice president, not someone

00:16who has to speak as a campaign question.

00:19He says of Kamala Harris, the vice president, she was always of Indian heritage and she

00:23was only promoting Indian heritage, I didn't know she was black until a number of years

00:26ago and she happened to turn black, he said, and now she wants to be known as black.

00:31So I didn't know, is she Indian or is she black?

00:33She is always of, this is unclear, I respect either one, but she obviously doesn't because

00:40she was Indian all the way and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went black.

00:44Your response to those comments?

00:48He is a candidate so I'm going to be super careful.

00:50Wait, no, no, no, hold on, hold on.

00:53I have more to say.

00:54I certainly have more to say.

00:58As a person of color, as a black woman who is in this position that is standing before

01:03you at this podium, behind this lectern, what he just said, what you just read out to me

01:08is repulsive, it's insulting, and, you know, no one has any right to tell someone who they

01:17are, how they identify, that is no one's right.

01:21It is someone's own decisions.

01:24It is, I'll add this, only she can speak to her experience.

01:33Only she can speak to what it's like.

01:37She's the only person that can do that.

01:42And I think it's insulting for anybody, it doesn't matter if it's a former leader, a

01:47former president, it is insulting.

01:52And we have to put, she is the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, we have

01:56to put some respect on her name, period.