The campaign of Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris has fired back after Donald Trump Jr. and others seemed to question the Senator’s racial background in what some are calling another form of the so-called “birther conspiracy.”
The campaign of Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris has fired back after Donald Trump Jr. and others seemed to question the Senator's racial background in what some are calling another form of the so-called "birther conspiracy."
"This stuff is really vile and everyone should speak out against it," Lily Adams, Harris' campaign spokeswoman, tweeted Saturday.
Her post was in response to a reference to a Daily Beast story about Harris' rise among the 2020 candidates and the subsequent attacks against her blackness which the outlet calls "a play straight out of the racist birther playbook used against Barack Obama."
Trump Jr. entered the fray when he shared a Twitter post, which stated: "Kamala Harris is not an American Black. She is half Indian and half Jamaican. I'm so sick of people robbing American Blacks (like myself) of our history."
The president's son commented in his now-deleted response, "Is this true? Wow."
Trump Jr.'s spokesperson has since claimed to the New York Times that his tweet was "simply him asking if it was true that Kamala Harris was half-Indian because it's not something he had ever heard before."
