Multiple White House officials tried to blame the media for questions of Harris’ eligibility. Trump first surfaced the conspiracy theory Thursday at a press conference.
President Donald Trump will refrain from encouraging a false, racist conspiracy theory that Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris is ineligible for run for office after doing just that last week, White House officials said Sunday.
Trump first surfaced the conspiracy theory Thursday when he said at a press conference that he had heard Harris, the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, “doesn’t meet the requirements” to be vice president because she was not a citizen-by-birth, drawing parallels to his earlier attacks on former President Barack Obama. Trump shared birther theories about Obama as having been born in Kenya; both of those theories have been condemned as racist.
Speaking from Bedminster, N.J., on Saturday, Trump walked back his statement, telling reporters at another press conference that “it's not something we will be pursuing” — though he declined to label the claim as false.
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