Video: George Stephanopoulos Attacks GOP Rep. Byron Donalds Over Whether Kamala Is “Black”
Donalds: “Like, this is really a phony controversy. I don’t really care. Most people don’t.”
Democrats are obsessed with race. Obsessed. They see everything — and I do mean everything, from roads to being polite and on time — through the lens of race. Black = good, and white = inherently, irredeemably evil. It’s absolutely insane, and it’s destructive, divisive, and very damaging to our country as a whole.
But it works for them, so they continue to focus on race to the exclusion of pretty much everything and anything else.
This was played out again this week as the Democrat media complex got their knickers in a twist over Trump pointing out that Kamala used to trade on her Indian heritage more than her Jamaican heritage. It’s true. She did. And the media helped her along in an avalanche of artcles about her being the first Indian senator, blah blah blah.
So of course, the only thing on Clinton stooge George Stephanopoulos’ mind when he had the chance to interview Florida Rep. Byron Donalds was to score a “win” for Team Blue by nagging and haranguing him into confessing Trump’s sins. Whiny old George just kept brow-beating Donalds in an often high pitched squeak, apparently trying to get this struggle session to end with the requisite self-flagellation over something Donalds didn’t even say.
It didn’t go quite as planned.
Here’s the full segment in question.
When pressed by @GStephanopoulos on why former Pres. Trump and his allies are questioning Vice Pres. Harris’ racial identity, GOP Rep. Byron Donalds calls it a “phony controversy.” https://t.co/FHwygFDOHg pic.twitter.com/uCgooyYI00
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) August 4, 2024
Here’s a partial transcript of Donalds’ response (via Red State):
STEPHANOPOULOS: Why is former President Trump questioning the vice president’s racial identity?
DONALDS: Well, first, George, in Chicago he was responding to a question from, I believe, Rachel Scott. Like, this is really a phony controversy. I don’t really care. Most people don’t. But if we’re going to be accurate, when Kamala Harris went into the United States Senate, it was AP that said she was the first Indian American United States senator. It was actually played up a lot when she came into the Senate. Now she’s running nationally. Obviously, the campaign has shifted. They’re talking much more about – about her father’s heritage and her black identity.
It doesn’t really matter. The president mentioned it. What he also talks about far more frequently is the fact that Kamala Harris is the person who created this massive inflation which is destroying black families, white families, Hispanic families. It’s her failure as border czar that has left our southern border wide open. More than 10 million illegal immigrants coming into our country. Record fentanyl coming into our country which has killed more Americans than at any other point in the history of our country with respect specifically to fentanyl.
STEPHANOPOULOS: OK.
DONALDS: And the fact that she and Joe Biden have unleashed one of the worst foreign policies in the history of our country that has us on the verge of World War III. That is Kamala Harris’ record.
President Trump talks about that frequently. But, yes, he did mention it in Chicago, in response to a question from Rachel Scott.
Squeaky George keeps badgering Donalds for some minutes, convinced that if he screeches “that’s a slur” often enough, he’ll get Donalds to back down. He’s wrong.
DONALDS: George, you asked me the question three times, I responded but —
(CROSSTALK)
STEPHANOPOULOS: And every single time you repeat the slur, that is my — exactly my point. You simply can’t say that it’s wrong.
DONALDS: George, so then what you’re saying — so then what you — and I want to get off this topic because it’s not the only thing that’s going on. But, George, now you’re saying that “AP” is the one that slurred Kamala Harris? Because those are the facts.
You can go to the Internet and look at the clips, George, if you want to or we can talk about this now.
I prefer to talk about the future of our country because the American people are struggling. The American people do need serious policy decisions to be made and they need serious leadership on the world stage.
Kamala Harris has not proven that she can do that. Donald J. Trump has proven that he can do that.
STEPHANOPOULOS: “AP” did not say that Kamala Harris is not Black. She is biracial. She is Indian. She is Black.
You continue to repeat the fact that you continue to repeat the slur. I don’t understand why you and the president do it.
But it’s clear you’re not going to say that it’s wrong. And you’ve now established that for our audience.
What really matters is the direction we take in November.
The American people are struggling.
Serious decisions must be made.
Our nation needs leadership.Kamala HAS NOT proven capable.
The successful Trump record of peace, prosperity, safety, & security is what America needs. pic.twitter.com/9Ujdcvchue
— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) August 4, 2024
Needless to say, people have thoughts.
This race thing is backfiring on them now they a panicking, they thought black folks we were going to be stupid enough to support the damn DEI Selected not elected symbolism of a candidate Kamala Scamala Harris. This is why more and more black folks are voting for Donald Trump.…
— Chawanne B (@ChawanneB) August 4, 2024
Byron Donalds just tore the f**king doors off of race baiting DNC operative George Stephanopoulos.
Ask again why Trump does not want to debate on the highly biased ABC News. pic.twitter.com/PMlgl9t3JG
— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) August 4, 2024
Here’s the AP article Donalds was referring to, which calls Kamala the first “Indian-American” senator: https://t.co/OJMf8vY1g6 pic.twitter.com/6rWkV4NRD7
— Kristina Wong 🇺🇸 (@kristina_wong) August 4, 2024
Let's be real.
I'm 2016, Kamala was the first Indian-American senator because it benefitted her.
In 2019, old Joe wasn't looking for an Indian-American VP, he wanted a black woman. Kamala became black.
In Atlanta, Kamala used a southern black dialect.
She's a lying chameleon.
— American Made (@Brain_Pwr) August 4, 2024
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LOL. White guy trying to school black guy on blackness.
Snuffalupagus is insufferable on a GOOD day, and it did my heart good to see Donalds work him over like a punching bag. Donalds could very well have a key role to play in Repub politics going forward.
Much more like this, please.
I just can’t understand why they don’t just hit back with the truth when the left asks that question.
“She is 1/2 Indian, 1/4 Jamaican, and 1/4 white slave owner.
While she was raised in the Indian and white cultures she has never lived in the American black culture. She ran for the Senate as an Indian. She is running now as black.
Next question?”
No, she is not “1/4 Jamaican, and 1/4 white slave owner”. She is half Jamaican., Her father was a full Jamaican, a black descendant of slaves, and also of the owner of one of those slaves — just like most black Americans.
His grandmother was “Miss Crishy”, a black woman, who was the daughter of Jessian Prince, a “laborer”, i.e. a former slave. Somewhere along the line, a Hamilton Brown, slave owner, fathered a child on a slave, or on a former slave who was still working for him in slave-like conditions.
Two points, I would like to see a citation before I buy into your outrageous statement that “most black Americans” owned slaves. Even in the south, most white Americans didn’t own slaves. SOME free blacks historically did own slaves, but I doubt they were a majority even among free blacks, let alone “most” blacks.
Second point, if his “full Jamaican” forebears had at least one white ancestor that makes half Jamaican less than half, at most mostly half black. She could only be revived to full black with the intervention of Miracle Max, or fawning supporters in the press.
And a third point, so VP Harris is black by the racist segregationist and race huxler ‘one drop” rule. If she currently identifies as black, OK for her, even if it’s only motivated by selfish personal reasons. Like Barrack identifying as an African immigrant during college to pick up more chicks. It is amusing to see the old official family portrait making the rounds of her, parents, and sibs dressed in traditional Indian subcontinent regalia.
What the actual f***?! How the hell did you come up with that stupid conclusion?! Don’t you dare put that into my mouth! I said nothing of the sort, and it’s obviously false — just as obviously as my actual statement is true.
Of course most black Americans pre-1865 did not own slaves. Most black Americans pre-1865 were slaves. And post-1865 nobody owned slaves. How could you even imagine that I would ever claim such a thing?
It remains both true and extremely well known, to the point that it is impossible that you don’t know it yourself, that most black Americans are descended from slave owners. Anyone who denies it is an obvious liar. And Harris comes by her slave-owner ancestry the same way as most black Americans do.
As for your second point, Donald Harris was a full Jamaican, which makes Kamala half Jamaican. Donald was a black man. Like most black Americans, he had white ancestry; that does not change the fact that they are black by any meaningful definition. When race mattered, their white ancestry didn’t count for anything. That makes them black. And as the daughter of a black man Kamala is black, just as she is Indian.
Third point, same as the second. It was the racists and segregationists who created black identity. They were the ones who created racial consciousness and distinctions, so their rules are the only ones that count. When race mattered, anyone with significant and traceable black ancestry was black. The experience was the same regardless of how much white ancestry a person had. And that’s what creates the “Black” identity today.
The Sems are just as racist as back in their KKK, Jim Crowe and slavery days. Race and power are the only things that matter to them. Kami is Indian not black just as Obama is black not white.
Huh? That makes no sense. Harris is both Indian and black. There’s nothing unusual about that.
Per an article in Brietbart, Harris grew up in the wealthiest area of Montreal.. Furthermore, her so-called Black side is Jamaican, as a descendant of a slave owner, per her own father. It looks like any playing of identity politics is a scam.
Didn’t matter that Obama’s dad was almost certainly descended from Kenyans that sold other Kenyans and kept slaves themselves until they were stopped by Evil Colonialist Christian British people. I’m not even sure that just because it was made unlawful in 1907 that they aren’t still doing it today.
DNA would tell a lot….. is BHO an 0bama or a Davis? BHO is the ultimate “unknown man”.
The point is that there is no mystery, no ‘almost certainty’ about Harris. There is dead certainty regarding her ancestry. The person who insists on selectively identifying as different races is her.
Like politicians who suddenly become Irish on St Paddy’s Day or when running for election in Boston.
It’s certainly possible, but “almost certainly”?! What evidence exists for that? It’s not as if most Kenyans were descended of slave traders.
Of note, though, is that if any of his Kenyan ancestors sold slaves, they would have been sold east into Arabia, not west to America. American slaves came from West Africa, not East. So his ancestors’ victims, if any, are unlikely to be the ancestors of American voters.
My understanding was that Obama’s slave-owning ancestry came from both his white mom and part Arab dad.
But in any case, even if Harris were to win (by fair or foul means) the election Trump would still be the only ever American president who didn’t have slave-owning ancestors.
As far as we know. Slavery being apparently endemic to every race and not invented in 1612 by white Americans, there’s imho a 100% chance if we could trace ancestry back a few millennia every one alive would have slave owning ancestors.
Of course. And probably slave ancestors as well.
The 18th-century Northwest European abolitionists may well have been the first people in human history to decide that slavery was wrong.
Nobody in Africa, including slaves, ever seems to have thought up such an idea. Slaves weren’t against slavery, they just wished they weren’t slaves. Their fondest hope was not to see slavery abolished, but to gain their freedom, become rich, and acquire slaves of their own.
Even the Bible makes no objection at all to slavery. Moses didn’t condemn Pharaoh for owning slaves, or even for enslaving the Jews and holding them for so long. All he demanded was that Pharaoh free the Jews now. Had Pharaoh complied he would have been regarded as completely innocent.
Congressman Donalds is my rep. And, like me, an ex-New Yorker. I really love this guy.
He’s great!
He did not have to bring it up, yet he did over and over. Donalds blew him away.
Donalds was right: Steffie kept bringing it up as a “slur” to distract from her epic record of failure as half of the Biden/Harris team.
The memo definitely went out on this subject but lots of people shift their stories around to suit their own interests emphasizing X over Y or suddenly claim they ‘always’ meant X and they were misunderstood. The d/prog though have seemingly perfected this as an art. Probably much easier when their media and tech allies help them to cover their tracks so they can then claim to be the ‘victim’ of mean old meany heads. Much easier for the d/prog campaign surrogates to talk about this than the very real record of failure by the Biden/Harris admin. Heck, talking about racial categories gives the d/prog home field advantage given their history and familiarity.
More revelatory as to what Harris is:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/03/morris-kamala-canada-how-harris-uses-fake-persona-cultural-appropriation-advance-career/
The parallel to Obama is stark. Made up persona.
It is a put down because Democrats did not want to put an actual black American with black American parents and black American roots on the ticket. Instead they nominated a half-Jamaican half-Indian insisting that she is black and expect that actual black Americans will vote for her.
George needs to clarify if he is a one drop, on eighth or one quarter man. Just what is the negro classification scheme that he is holding to?
Lets face it. In the grievance business, being Indian American doesn’t cut it. They have the highest per-capita income from any demographic in the US. Native born black Americans, on the other hand, are much lower on the rankings so the accumulated grievance points are higher. Per Wikipedia (2021), the household income for Indian Americans was $152,000, that of Jamaican Americans was $66,000, and for black Americans was $48,000. (White American average household income was $75,000). Identifying with a demographic that makes on-the-average twice the household income of “privileged” white Americans would not do and would put the lie into the shibboleth of “systemic” racism. So for the Democratic party, it is vital that Kamala claim the mantle of “black” in order to sound “authentic” to their core voting blocks: the White liberal voters and native black Americans. Kamala is as authentic as Hillary Clinton – which is to say not at all. And this discussion highlights it.
No different than Fauxcohaontas! Good grief Georgie…you are a despicable pos. He has been doing the bidding of the demonrats since he showed up on abc. I’ll keep saying it, the R’s need to go after the broadcast licenses starting with abc. They are abusing their broadcast license.
FKH
Seems like a variation on those discussing pedigrees for entry into a restricted country club.
Kamala is rachel dolezal version 2.0.
Kamala is as black as RuPaul is female.
Bullshit. Harris’s father was as black as most black Americans. That makes her black too. And yes, she is Indian as well. Anyone who thinks one can’t be two things is just an idiot. Most Americans are probably of multiple ethnicities.
Supposing Senator Warren actually did have a genuine Cherokee grandmother, would anyone be poking fun at her for claiming to be an Amerindian?! Of course not. The jokes are only because she has no known Indian ancestry whatsoever.
In skin tone sure. That’s not the point though. The issue here is about the ‘black experience’ of both personally lived and family experience over the generations of those ‘black’ Citizens who’s trace their lineage back to slavery in the USA.
An immigrant or child of an immigrant can’t claim that same heritage no matter how often they try. It simply isn’t authentic, especially when Harris was in Canada during a large portion of her childhood. Add to this her emphasis on her Indian heritage earlier in her political career and this demonstrates her chameleon like attempt to become whatever she believes her audience wishes to see. That sort of inauthentic BS was on full display in Atlanta where she tried on a ‘Southern’ accent. All politicians do this sort of thing to a lesser degree but Harris can’t pull it off b/c she goes too far and doesn’t have the acting chops to make it work and comes across as phoney.
Jamaica was part of British North America, just like Georgia or Massachusetts. Slavery ended earlier in Jamaica than in Georgia, but later than in Massachusetts. So the black experience in Jamaica is comparable to that in the part of British North America that ended up being the USA.
Dark skin + slave ancestors doesn’t add up to the same experiences, history, traditions, dialect and cultural immersion as say some ‘black’ dude from GA whose family has been in GA since prior to abolition of the slave trade. It isn’t comparable in the cultural context and that’s the distinction.
This is part of the reason that many reject Harris authenticity when she tries to artificially cloak herself in the mantle of ‘black’ as if her family history was rooted in the USA side before the Civil War.
Many folks view this through the same lens some have used in re folks being/claiming to be Jewish via conversion v birth by Jewish Parents within an Observant household. There are those who don’t view someone who converted as ‘authentically’ Jewish.
None of that history is relevant to Harris who lived a very privileged lifestyle and didn’t live in Jamaica, Georgia, or Massachusetts.
Kamala Harris who grew up in the richest part of Montreal Canada has no idea what it’s like to be black in america. It’s not part of her experience and that’s the point
And they’re wrong. No actual observant Jew thinks like this. So long as the conversion was valid, the convert is now just as Jewish as the Chief Rabbis of Israel.
Conversion to the Jewish nation works exactly like naturalization to US citizenship. Once a person is validly naturalized they are a full member of their new nation. (Of course an invalid conversion or naturalization is a nullity, and the person remains as they were before.)
But this isn’t about nationality but about cultural background; one can’t become a “naturalized” black American, or Indian-American. Harris is both by birth, even if her own life has not been typical of either group.
There’s a basic misunderstanding here. Donalds doesn’t understand what it is that Stephanopoulos is alleging Trump said. Stephanopoulos and other Dems are trying to pretend that Trump said Harris is not black. That’s the “slur” that he’s referring to. And Donalds doesn’t seem to understand that, because (at least as far as I know) Trump never said that.
What Trump said, and what has been given some time on many right-wing sites including this one, is that Harris has emphasized different parts of her descent, as it has suited her politically.
Now there’s nothing wrong with that at all. The fact is that she is black, and she is Indian, and like all politicians of mixed ethnicity (which is most of them) she plays up whichever aspect seems most relevant and helpful in a given context. Think of La Guardia, who played up his Italian side when campaigning to Italians, and his Jewish side when campaigning to Jews. Would anyone say that was wrong or hypocritical or any of the things they’re saying now about Harris?!
But what’s different about Harris is that she’s pretending not to have done this. And that makes it, not a legitimate campaign issue, but a legitimate reason to poke some fun at her.
However, unlike Trump, there are morons on the right, including some commenters here on LI, who do make the utterly moronic claim that she is not black, and even that “she does not have a drop of black blood”. And that plays directly into the hands of people like Stephanopoulos.
Kamala is such a fraud.
It is proof that she was/is a DEI hire; Biden said he wanted a woman, preferably a black woman, as his VP. That is a diversity hire. This is what they wanted, so now they are complaining?
The left wants to be racist while pretending not to be racist, and worse, projecting it on Pres. Trump.
No wonder Harris is refusing to go on Fox and away from the protection of ABC. Gutless.
lol, I was reading this and thought this must be Milhouse, scrolled up and yep.
Too funny. Donald understood, he just was not playing. Go back to what Trump said, which it really did not matter.
THERE IS NO MISUNDERSTANDING! They are race baiting and it is failing.
If Donald had understood the allegation, he would have called Stephanopoulos on it. He would have said, “No, Trump never said that; nobody claims Harris isn’t black, but in the past she downplayed that side of her and played up the Indian side, and now she’s doing the opposite.” It’s not a scandal, it’s just funny.
But because Stephanopoulos never actually came out and said what he was alleging, he just called it a “slur”, Donald had no chance to address it.
It’s like when Trump told Raffensperger, look, you don’t need to find all the many tens of thousands of invalid votes that were cast, you only need to identify less than 12,000 of them. And somehow the Democrats turned that into Trump asking him to “find” the votes, with scare quotes around “find” to imply that he meant “invent”, “fabricate”, and thus Trump was suddenly accused of suborning fraud. But they never actually came out and said so explicitly, so that it could be addressed; they just quoted him and implied the wrong interpretation.
Trump also communicated to a black audience that Kamala had been “passing.” Many white folks have missed this in their discussion of the Donald’s statement. Every black person in that audience knew what he was describing even if he didn’t use the term. Blacks, esp. the “black and proud” liberal types who believe their race is important, despise blacks who “pass” as something other than black. I heard the crowd’s reaction. It wasn’t agreement, but it wasn’t disagreement. I’d characterize it as a “stir.” Trump got their attention.
Yes. But the Dems are trying to spin it as Trump “slurring” her by bizarrely claiming she’s not actually black. As some LI commenters have done, which only helps the Dems spread their falsehood.
Dems are liars, they have always been liars, and they will probably always be liars. They don’t need people on our side to help them.
Morons? What about imbeciles and idiots? Surely you know the meanings of these words.
This was the exact point that I wanted to make. Donalds should have pushed back against Stephanopolous’ mischaracterization of Trump’s statement as a “slur.” By letting it go, the media can claim that there is tacit approval on both sides that Trump’s statement was indeed a slur.
Donalds is usually VERY good at pushing back, but he missed an opportunity this time.
Donalds should have also pointed out that racial politics is a core focus of the Ds, including the progressive push for reparations. However, though Kamala is black, she did not descend from slaves. Thus she does not share a common cultural background with the vast majority of African Americans. In fact, she does not appear to have much in common with African Americans at all. Taking this train of thought one step further, African Americans may therefore not view her as “one of their own”, and so her election might not be all that important for many in the black community.
Obviously this line of thinking cannot be allowed, which explains why the Ds view Trump’s statement as dangerous and thus must quickly be expunged from public discourse as a slur.
He didn’t push back because he didn’t understand what the “slur” was. He didn’t understand what Stephanopoulos was falsely accusing Trump of, so he couldn’t expose it as false.
Kamala Harris does descend from slaves, so she does share the cultural background of black Americans, at least as much as someone descended from Massachusetts freedmen, and a lot more than Barack 0bama ever did.
I thought she descended from slave OWNERS, but of course there are multiple family branches.
How many times do I have to address this? She is descended, on her father’s side, from slaves, just like most black Americans. And part of slavery in America (including Jamaica) was that slave owners often fathered children on their female slaves. Those children were not family, they were slaves. As a result most black Americans have at least one ancestor who owned some of their other ancestors. And the Harris family tradition is that that’s what happened in their family.
In other words Kamala Harris is descended from Hamilton Brown in the same way that all of Sally Hemings’ descendants are also descended from John Wayles, and at least some of them are also descended from a Jefferson (either Thomas or one of his nephews).
This was a rhetorical masterstroke from Trump. All he had to do was raise the issue once, and the Left can’t stop talking and thinking about it.
During his first term, I mentioned that Trump gets the liberal media to amplify his message by intentionally stating it in outrageous and even offensive terms. The MSM then would endlessly repeat it, exposing vastly more people to the message than would have ever heard it without the MSM’s help.
The Dem’s other regular mistake with Trump is to pay too much attention to what he says and not enough attention to what he does. Even then they get fixated on how he says something rather than the message he is communicating.
It’s sad that anyone still gives a rat’s pitute about what George Stephanopoulos has to say about anything. That little incident on the sidewalk several weeks ago when he let his guard down and told a reporter what he actually thinks demonstrated that he is nothing more than a whore being pimped by ABC. It’s reasonable to assume as a starting point that that relationship exists between all the yakkers and their corporate ‘masters’ – in the racially negative connotation they’ve assigned to the word. Make them live with it; it’s their problem.
Donalds’ mistake was changing the subject; he was right about Harris’ positions on everything, but Stephanopolous brought up race. The issue is one Harrris has brought up repeatedly for her entire ‘career,’ Donalds should have hung (hanged) Georgie with it. Go with it, make George, Harris, and the whole lousy lot live with it. Beat them over the head with it.
Open Border Kamala forcing black americans to the back of the waiting line behind 10 million illegal aliens??
Of course she did.
Stephanopoulos is a Democrat hack, and here he is acting like a broken record, stuck on a preposterous false claim.
Byron Donalds handled this quite well, and that’s the problem. Stephanopoulos likely realized that he had been shown to be wrong, so he desperately tried repeated racial claims.
White lib media hack calling black conservative racist.
lol
She can’t deny or refute direct ties to slave ownership. I have yet to hear her denounce her own family and disassociate herself from the tradition of slave ownership.
On another front how does one who descends from a India and Jamaica, who spend much of her formative years in Montreal than back in California suddenly pick up a southern accent when she crosses south of the Mason – Dixon line and then suddenly lose it when she is north of that line
Kamala family were slave owners and whipped blacks like donkeys.
But don’t question anything??
No, her family were not slave owners. Children fathered by owners on their slaves were not family, they were slaves.
race based is nazism
gender/money status is communism
BOTH FROM THE LEFT
BUT MADE OUT TO BE RIGHT WINGERS when it comes to race
TAKE BACK THE NARRATIVE FROM LEFTY
how can black women relate to kamala?
on the taxpayers teat forever
yet they are soooooooooooooo racist they dont care
as long as whitey is defeated by any means necessary
Easy on Stephanopoulos. He’s a moron and a shill for the left. He’s doing the best he can and what he’s told.
Recognizing someone’s Indian heritage is a slur? I’d bet that’s news to Indians.
Neither Trump nor Donalds denied that Harris is part black, they both mentioned it specifically, so how are they “denying” her race?
They only pointed out that Kamala and the media only started stressing the importance of her black heritage over her Indian heritage when it became politically expedient for them to do so.
If anyone is “denying” anything, it’s Stephanopoulos.
No, that’s not what Stephanopoulos was claiming.
But that is exactly what Stephanopoulos was insinuating, without explicitly saying so. If he’d said it openly Donalds would have had a chance to refute it. But he didn’t say it openly; he just assumed it as a matter of course, and proceeded to attack Trump on that basis, expecting that most people watching the exchange wouldn’t know the facts and would accept his false insinuation. Or would be too stupid to know the difference.
George is, in my opinion, a water boy for the Democrats. Whatever their talking points are at the moment he’s sure to be totally focused on repeating them.
“George is, in my opinion, a water boy for the Democrats.”
I’m pretty sure you can promote that thought from “opinion” to “cold, hard fact”.
Reminder: Georgie was an advisor to the Democrat party, then the communications director for the Clinton administration before being promoted to “unbiased journalist”.
I watched the video clip of this. George was trying to get Donalds to say what Trump said was wrong, but Donalds was not going for it. George then said that they all should be talking about policy and that is a first for a Dem. If a Dem cannot talk about DEI then what do they have? George was Bill Clinton’s Advisor and has never changed from being pure DNC and always running the DNC daily script.
Donalds wasn’t going for it because he knows what Trump said, and it wasn’t what Stephanopoulos was insinuating he said. I don’t think Donalds even understood what Stephanopoulos was trying to do. He thought Stephanopoulos was addressing what Trump actually said, and therefore his comments made no sense so he ignored them as best he could.