Former president Donald Trump entered a lion's den when he sat down for an "interview" at the National Association of Black Journalists' conference in Chicago. But this was no interview. It was "an extended verbal assault," says Glenn Beck's co-host, Stu Burguiere (@studoesamerica) Filling in for Glenn, Stu tears into the media's lies about Trump after his NAJB interview. And it wasn't just lies. The media showed its hypocrisy by criticizing Trump's comments about VP Kamala Harris' race - when they praised her as Indian just a few years ago! And what about Trump's "black jobs" controversy? REALITY CHECK: Harris was literally hired for a "black job" according to Joe Biden!
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Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors
STU: It is Stu in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program. And we've been talking about this bizarre -- I don't want to call it an interview. Because it wasn't. It was, I don't know. An extended verbal assault of Donald Trump, at the National Association of Black Journalists gathering on Wednesday.
And there is a bunch of stuff that came out of this, honestly. There were several clips that the media is excited about. And I guess you can -- I think pretty fairly question why Donald Trump bothered to go to this gathering in the first place. I don't know what the other outcome was. We obviously knew what was going on here. These are not -- you know, there's not a lot of conservative black idealists involved in the National Association of Black journalists. This is a left-wing, you know, mainstream media/left-wing organization. I don't know if there's any separation between those two groups anymore. But maybe at one point, there was a little bit. Now, it seems like, there's just moving in unison. And this group brought in Trump. Trump played the clip earlier. When he answered the very first question. Which was just straight-out. Here's all the racist things you say. Why are you so racist? Was essentially every single question, some version of that.
And look, if I'm a campaign adviser to Donald Trump. I ask, why bother? What's the upside here?
You know what will happen. They will come in and yell at you for an hour. He was told apparently, that Kamala Harris was going to be there. So I don't know.
Seemingly that they either misled him in some way, or she dropped out last second.
It's hard to know exactly what the true background is.
But the main clip that came out of this, was Donald Trump's answer on a question, by an ABC reporter about Kamala Harris' racial identity.
Now, look, I -- we're just talking about this, you know, 15 minutes ago.
There honestly to me, could be nothing less important. I don't care about a racial identity. I don't care about anybody's racial identity. It's a the stupid thing to be talking about.
But the media is constantly talking about it. Certainly, when you go to an organization, that has segregated itself by race. The National Association of Black journalists, you're going to get a focus on race. That is what is going to happen in a situation like that. And so this is one of the many racially focused questions Trump was asked in an aggressive manner during this interview, and here's how it went.
VOICE: Do you believe that vice president Kamala Harris is only on the ticket because she was a black woman?
DONALD: Well, I can say, well, maybe it's a little bit different. So I've known her a long time indirectly. Not directly, very much. And she was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black, until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn black. And now she wants to be known as black. So I don't know. Is she Indian, or is she black?
VOICE: She has always identified as a black --
DONALD: But you know what, I respect either one, but she obviously doesn't. Because she was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden, she made a turn. And she went -- and she became a black person. And I think -- I think somebody should look into that too.
STU: Now, Trump obviously loves this stuff. He loves going into these situations. He loves fighting with reporters. He loves taking them down these roads.
This is something that Donald Trump likes to do. I think he enjoys doing it, and we should get into his actual answer here in a second.
But what's -- first of all, the reporter herself, she's talking -- she's from ABC News.
And she's in the middle of this like, I don't know. Almost like this Twitter conversation with Donald Trump. She's trying to answer all of his claims. When he says he was the best president since President Lincoln.
What about Lyndon Baines Johnson?
Like, that's not journalism. Like, that's just an argument some Democrat would make. Just outwardly saying the things that some left-winger on Twitter would say, that might be an appropriate thing for a back-and-forth.
You know, like you want to go into some version of crossfire.
Or, you know, some panel show. Where there's a bunch of panelists arguing with each other. You can absolutely get that as an argument. You want to make that argument, that the guy who said the N-word constantly. Is really the best friend of the black population. With Lyndon Baines Johnson. You can do that if you want. But it's not journalism.
That's just someone making a left-wing point. That's essentially what you would think someone like Kamala Harris would say, if she were on stage.
And, of course, that is basically what you have here. You have a left-wing person posing as a generalist. Saying left-wing things.
But fundamentally here. The answer to this question. Did Kamala Harris become vice president only because she was black?
It's an interesting question.
Obviously, it's asked with a specific tone in mind here.
The accusation is. If you believe that she only got this job, because she was black, you are a racist. That's the implication of the question.
And I think we can all pretty honestly say, we don't know everything that went into the decision-making process of Joe Biden, picking Kamala Harris.
To me, it seems like a bit of insanity. Maybe dementia had kicked in. Because it's a terrible choice, and she's been a terrible president.
And if she is elected president, she will be a terrible president. But we don't know everything that went into that decision. We may never know everything that went into that decision. I can't imagine Joe Biden remembers exactly how he made that decision.
He can't remember what he had for lunch, last Tuesday. But there are a couple of things that we do know, about that decision-making process. There are a couple of standards, that were put out there, publicly, by Joe Biden.
That he seemingly stuck to, very, very closely. One aspect of this decision-making process was that the skin color had to be appropriate. There had to be a person of color. Who was chosen to be this vice president. We know that, because he said it in advance.
We also know, that a particular set of genitals, and reproductive organs, were a requirement of getting this job.
We know he was going to put a woman of color, into this job. He successfully eliminated approximately 98 percent of the population.
Before he made the decision. We know that. Because he said it over and over again.
We know exactly how this occurred. We can all theorize, that there were additional requirements, and additional reasons, Kamala Harris was picked as right now.
We can all make these -- these arguments up in our minds. We can all formulate how we would have done it. We can all think about how Biden may have done it. We can think of, he may have -- he may have had a bingo set out, and he may have been picked, bingo balls to see randomly which president was going to be picked. Or which vice presidential candidate was going to be picked. We have no idea how he made that decision.
Outside of the fact that he picked because of gender and race. That's what we know.
That's the only thing we know.
You can make up a decision-making process in your mind, that you think he went thew. But the one we know he went through, was eliminating every white person, every Asian person, and I -- I say Asian. Because I don't understand these groups. She's also -- Kamala is apparently also the first Asian VP. So apparently, he didn't eliminate Asian people. But he did eliminate every other race, and every other gender. Every one of the 96 genders, except woman. That apparently, they learned how to define.
We know that because he said it. So when you ask, was Kamala Harris only the VP pick because of the color of her skin?
We can't guarantee it was only the reason.
We just know, it had to be part of it. We can't say that it was the only reason she was selected as vice president. We just know it was a qualification for being considered. To me, that's a terrible decision. To me, that is a horrible way to go through a process.
About 12 percent of the population is black. So 88 percent of the population is immediately disqualified. About half of the black population is male.
So six more percent, were immediately qualified. Which leaves you only with what? 6 percent of the population. About a third of those are too old. About a third of those are too young.
We can assume. Which leaves you with about 2 percent of the population. Now, is Kamala Harris the most qualified black woman to become vice president?
I can guarantee you, the answer to that is no. However, that's what Joe Biden apparently selected.
But at no point did he try to make you believe, she was the most qualified person. Because he eliminated 98 percent of the population, before considering anyone.
And if you don't believe me. Read the reporting from CNN, at the time.
When he was down to the last four people, for the role. All of them were black women.
All of them
He couldn't find anyone in any racial group. Why? He didn't look. He didn't look at Hispanic candidates.
He didn't look at Native American candidates.
He didn't look, at anyone, other than black women.
Why? Quite clearly, because he was pandering to an audience. And because identity politics and racial makeup and gender, is more important than merit. Was Kamala Harris the most qualified person? I can guarantee you, the answer to that is no. But I don't think Joe Biden can. Because he didn't even look at these other groups. How do we know, that a more qualified black man, was not available?
Joe Biden doesn't know. You might know.
Joe Biden doesn't know. Because he never looked.
The question is whether that's the appropriate decision-making process.
And when you're asking the question like, is she the only VP, because she's black?
Well, I don't know. Representative of the National Association of Black journalists.
I don't make decisions based on race. Do you?
Seems like it!
When I look at the title of your organization, it sure seems like it.
Axios posted a fact-check. Or sorry, a reality check.
A reality check of Donald Trump.
And they say, Trump says immigrants are taking black jobs. Reality check, there are no black jobs!
Because there is not any kind of racial requirement for employment. Where there is, when you want to be the vice president of the United States.
We know that, because Biden told us!
And I don't know. Maybe there aren't black jobs. Are there black journalists?
Is there a National Association of those black journalists? Do they exist? This is nonsense. And over and over again, they go down these road.
