<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0hftu4_0vT1LNJF00" style="display:none" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0hftu4_0vT1LNJF00" width="1200" height="628" ><a href="https://knewz.com/tag/donald-trump/" rel="nofollow"> Donald Trump </a> side-stepped his claims about <a href="https://knewz.com/tag/kamala-harris/" rel="nofollow"> Kamala Harris </a> “turning Black” as he was questioned about the controversial remarks during the first <a href="https://knewz.com/trump-claims-harris-is-going-to-get-the-questions-in-advance-of-debate/" rel="nofollow"> debate </a> to feature the political rivals. <a href="https://knewz.com/" rel="nofollow"> Knewz.com </a> can reveal the GOP candidate changed his tune by saying he “couldn’t care less” about his opponent’s <a href="https://knewz.com/trump-did-crap-the-bed-today-top-republican-strategist-admits-after-suggesting-kamala-harris-suddenly-became-a-black-person/" rel="nofollow"> racial identity </a> . During Tuesday’s heated debate on the ABC stage, co-moderator David Muir asked: “Why do you believe it’s appropriate to weigh in on the racial identity of your opponent?” <figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=35JcYS_0vT1LNJF00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=35JcYS_0vT1LNJF00" width="1200" height="628" ><figcaption>Trump said he ‘couldn’t care less’ about his opponent’s racial identity. BY: MEGA </figcaption></figure><nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate> The former president responded: “I don’t, and I don’t care. I don’t care what she is. I don’t care. You make a big deal out of something — I couldn’t care less. Whatever she wants to be is OK with me.” Muir then replied: “But those were your words, so I”m asking —”, before Trump cut him off and continued: “I don’t know, I don’t know. I mean, all I can say is I read where she was not Black that she put out, and I’ll say that, and then I read that she was Black. And that’s OK. Either one is OK with me. That’s up to her.” The question was in reference to comments Trump, 78, made at the National Association of Black Journalists in July. The <a href="https://knewz.com/tag/republican/" rel="nofollow"> Republican </a> presidential hopeful suggested Harris, 59, was misleading voters when it came to her ethnicity as he said she “happened to turn Black” just in the last few years. <nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate> He added at the event last month: “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago … and now she wants to be known as Black. So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Harris. whose parents are Indian and Jamaican, was the first Black woman and Asian American to win the vice presidency. After Trump’s pivot during Tuesday’s debate, the VP offered her thoughts on the matter, saying: “Honestly, I think it’s a tragedy that we have someone who wants to be president who has consistently over the course of his career attempted to use race to divide the <a href="https://knewz.com/tag/united-states/" rel="nofollow"> American </a> people.” <figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0Nvw3v_0vT1LNJF00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0Nvw3v_0vT1LNJF00" width="1200" height="628" ><figcaption>The candidates faced off in Philadelphia for their first-ever debate. BY: MEGA </figcaption></figure><nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate> She slammed the real estate tycoon for being “investigated because he refused to rent property to Black families” — harkening back to the 1970s, when Trump’s company <a href="https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/02/trump-fbi-files-discrimination-case-235067" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> was investigated </a> by the <a href="https://knewz.com/tag/fbi/" rel="nofollow"> FBI </a> over alleged discrimination. He and his father ended up settling a <a href="https://knewz.com/tag/lawsuit/" rel="nofollow"> lawsuit </a> filed by the Justice Department over the claims. Harris also said: “Let’s remember, this is the same individual who took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for the <a href="https://knewz.com/tag/execution/" rel="nofollow"> execution </a> of five young Black and Latino boys who were innocent, the Central Park Five.” <figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=002oBl_0vT1LNJF00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=002oBl_0vT1LNJF00" width="1200" height="628" ><figcaption>Harris and Trump exchanged blows Tuesday night, the first time they met in person. BY: MEGA </figcaption></figure><nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate> She continued with her race-related grievances against the former president, saying: “This is the same individual who spread birther lies about the first Black president of the United states, and I think the American people want better than that.” Trump fired back: “This is the most divisive presidency in the history of our country, there’s never been anything like it. They’re destroying our country and they come up with things like what she just said, going back many many years”. He then defended his actions in regard to the Central Park Five, a group of boys wrongly convicted of rape in 1989, saying: “They pled guilty, and I said well if they pled guilty and they badly hurt a person…” Trump turned his focus back to Harris as he continued: “This is a person that has to stretch back years, 40, 50 years ago, because there’s nothing now.” <nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate> Their heated back-and-forth also saw Trump accuse Harris of and her running mate, Tim Walz of supporting of “baby executions”, which the vice president denied. The <a href="https://knewz.com/tag/democrats/" rel="nofollow"> Democratic </a> candidate took jabs at her opponent as well, joking about MAGA supporters supposedly “leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom.” </div></body>

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Donald Trump side-stepped his claims about Kamala Harris “turning Black” as he was questioned about the controversial remarks during the first debate to feature the political rivals. Knewz.com can reveal the GOP candidate changed his tune by saying he “couldn’t care less” about his opponent’s racial identity. During Tuesday’s heated debate on the ABC stage, […]