CNN’s Daniel Dale Forced to Deliver Wild Fact Check After Trump Claims Kamala Harris ‘Turned Black’

CNN’s Daniel Dale was forced to deliver a stunning fact check on Wednesday regarding the racial identity of Vice President Kamala Harris after Donald Trump claimed that she recently “became a Black” woman.

“A number of things that the former president said that were controversial, but also some things that were just blatantly false, specifically about immigration and abortion,” anchor Boris Sanchez noted of Trump’s appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention.

“Walk us through some of the, misstatements, mistruths. Not really sure what to call them at this point, falsehoods, that former President Trump went through,” Sanchez asked.

“Sure. So the controversialness of the claims about Vice President Harris’s identity will probably make the most headlines. But I think it’s important to note that his claims on that subject are also false. You know, he said that Vice President Harris has only turned black a couple of years ago, and before that she was only promoting her Indian heritage. That is just not true!” said a fast-talking Dale.

“I quickly just via Google and with the help of CNN’s K-File team, Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, found multiple examples of her talking about her black identity going back decades. Her biography on the official website of the San Francisco a district attorney page identified her as an African-American woman,” he continued, adding:

I found an article in Politico that quoted her talking about her Black identity and speaking out against anti-Black racism in 1989 as a law student. So this is not some sort of sudden identity conversion that’s just completely fictional. And then it was just a laundry list of old Trump false claims. So his claim that, as well, he said she didn’t pass the bar exam, you addressed that? She passed on a second try. She was admitted to the bar a year after she graduated law school.

He talked about Democrats allowing the death of babies after birth, suggesting that there’s some sort of post-birth abortion. Again, not true, illegal in every state. He said everybody wanted Roe v Wade overturned. This issue returned to the states. No, that’s not true. Roe was overwhelmingly popular with about two-thirds of the American public.

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