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Donald Trump reportedly refused to go onstage at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention if reporters fact-checked him, but he finally gave in following a lengthy delay.

The former president blamed the delay of more than an hour on audio problems, but NABJ president Ken Lemon told Axios that Trump's team asked organizers if the panel of Black journalists, including ABC News correspondent Rachel Scott, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner, and Semafor reporter Kadia Goba, would refrain from correcting his false statements.

"[Trump's team] said, 'Well, can you not fact check? He's not going to take the stage if you fact-check,'" Lemon said.

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Lemon confirmed there had been some audio problems that were "resolved very quickly," but he said Trump's holdout grew so lengthy NABJ leaders were prepared to explain to the audience of nearly 2,000 people that the Republican nominee would not appear, after all.

"I was prepared to go on stage to craft a statement, saying he decided not to go on stage because of fact-checking," Lemon said. "We couldn't compromise on that."

Trump eventually gave in and took the stage as Lemon was drafting a statement, and he said the ex-president's team asked NABJ not to post the fact-checks on social media or allow the moderator to disclose there would be fact checking.

"Our whole team stood our ground," Lemon said.

The New York Times previously reported that Trump's team made a last-minute demand about live fact-checking during the event, which his campaign called "straight up fake news."

Trump immediately struck a hostile tone with the panelists after he eventually took the stage, where he questioned vice president Kamala Harris' racial background and quarreled with the reporters, and his team pulled him from the event after a little more than a half hour of questions.

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) was raked over the coals on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday for his "pathetic" spin on President Joe Biden's successful effort to free unjustly arrested Russian prisoners and return them to their families.

On Thursday, while doing a photo-op at the border, Donald Trump's running mate told reporters, “We certainly want these Americans to come back home. It was ridiculous that they were in prison to begin with."

He then added, "But we have to ask ourselves: Why are they coming home? And I think it’s because bad guys all over the world recognize Donald Trump’s about to be back in office, so they’re cleaning house,” he said. “That’s a good thing, and I think it’s a testament to Donald Trump’s strength.”

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That led Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson to launch into a scathing takedown of both Vance and the former president.

"I think that the reaction from both Donald Trump and J.D. Vance yesterday— the only word that comes to mind is just pathetic," Robinson began. "It is just absolutely pathetic and incredible that they couldn't just say, we're happy that they're home. We're happy these Americans who were wrongly detained by Vladimir Putin are home and just leave it at that."

"I don't understand why they felt they had to attack, attack, attack," he admitted. "I mean, I guess that's who Trump is, and then J.D. Vance seems to be trying really, really hard to be kind of a mini-me; giving credit to Donald Trump for something he couldn't have been bothered to do when he was in office."

"I think, in part, it's their frustration," he claimed. "They just can't buy a news-cycle right now. They have been — and that has to be driving Trump crazy. Kamala Harris has dominated the news cycle and he thought he maybe had a little momentum by going crazy and saying offensive things at the NABJ meeting on Wednesday. Boom! Thursday attention is away from him again. Nobody is thinking or talking about Donald Trump."

"So maybe that pathetic reaction was just frustration on the part of Trump and Vance that nobody is really paying much attention to them right now," Robinson suggested.

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People are sharing their stories on social media with the hashtag “WhenITurnedBlack” in response to Donald Trump’s contentious interview at an event for Black journalists Wednesday where he questioned Kamala Harris’ racial identity in an attempt to smear his rival in the race for president.

Trump has caught major backlash after insinuating Harris “made a turn and she became a Black person,” at the National Association for Black Journalists Chicago conference before being pulled from the stage by his own campaign team.

On social media, many mocked Trump by sharing their own stories about when they “turned Black.”

“I turned Black when the Spice Girls came out,” wrote podcaster Akilah Hughes. “Suddenly I *was* Scary Spice in every play date. #WhenITurnedBlack.”

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“I turned Black when I opened a cookie tin and saw barrettes, rollers, and Bobby pins,” wrote @IamRanaTerrell.

“After many hours of practice. I finally memorized Lisa Left Eye Lopez's entire rap break in the TLC hit "Waterfalls" I could see a tear drop from my parents' eyes. It happened,” wrote @LikeAFineWino.

When I realized that the preacher saying “I’m almost finished, I ain’t gone hold y’all all day” meant we had another two hours to go,” wrote @EagleEye1906.

Donald Trump’s incendiary remarks that Kamala Harris “made a turn and she became a Black person,” took over social media Wednesday, but another odd comment he made later in the day at a campaign rally also raised eyebrows — and drew criticism.

During his campaign rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Trump relived the moments a would-be assassin’s bullet just nearly missed him while speaking in Butler earlier this month. Trump held a moment of silence for Corey Comperatore, the former fire chief killed during the rally, but not without adding his flavor of commentary.

“But you know? Corey’s wife said, ‘I’d rather have my husband.’ Isn’t that good? I know a lot of wives that would not say that, sorry.” Trump said, garnering laughs from the audience.

The seemingly off-the-cuff remark didn't sit well with critics on the social media app X.

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“He is horrible. But you know what? So are all those MAGATS who laugh with him,” wrote @SebrinaAlfonso.

“The dead guy is a prop and now a punchline. Cruel,” responded @TnxRodgers.

“What a sick cockroach,” wrote @Chiffonelle29.

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Former President Donald Trump is only going to turn up the insanity the more he perceives he's losing his lead in the election, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on MSNBC Wednesday evening.

This comes after Trump held an explosive question-and-answer session with the National Association of Black Journalists, where he caused an uproar by proclaiming that Vice President Kamala Harris only recently decided she was Black.

This, warned Buttigieg, is only the beginning.

"When you look at the state of the race today ... what do you think Trump's going to do next?" asked "Deadline: White House" anchor Nicolle Wallace. "Because he's — when he's desperate, and make no mistake, this, for him, candidacy is about staying out of jail. I mean, he's as desperate to win the presidency as Putin is to have him there, because for him, it's about Ukraine. I mean, what would you sort of warn your party and the pro-democracy coalition to be prepared for from Trump?"

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Buttigieg had a simple response: "I think precisely because it's going so well for Kamala Harris out of the gate, I expect that Trump and his Republican Party will get crazier ... the more she pulls ahead, the more you're going to see I think Trump revert to the only thing he knows how to do when he wants to get attention, which is get more and more outrageous."

For the last several months, Trump has had a small but clear and durable lead in the national contest, with President Joe Biden mired in disapproval over questions about his fitness to run a campaign and serve another term — concerns which came to a head within his own party after a disastrous debate performance in June.

His exit, however, appears to have reset the race, with recent polling showing a close contest and Harris pulling even or ahead in many key battleground states.

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MSNBC's Joy Reid issued a blistering fact-check to Donald Trump following the ex-president's Q&A session with Black journalists in Chicago Wednesday.

During the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) annual convention in the Windy City, a hostile Trump claimed he was unaware that his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, is Black, and spewed baseless claims, such as that Harris is a "border czar."

The MSNBC host began the latest episode of The ReidOut by correcting five of the MAGA hopeful's false statements.

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"First off, no, Donald. You are not the best president for Black people since Abraham Lincoln," Reid said. Not even close. For instance, you like to claim that you have the lowest black unemployment numbers when, in fact, that happened under President Biden. Second, Vice President Kamala Harris is Black. She's always identified as Black. Her father — also Black.

Trump questions Kamala Harris' race during appearance at a gathering of Black journalists

She continued, "Third, Vice President Harris was not the border czar. There's no such position in the federal government, Donald. President Biden tasked VP Harris to look at the root causes of undocumented mass migration to the United States and to negotiate compacts in central America to slow the flow of migrants, which she did, including with Guatemala. Not to monitor the border. Fourth, Kamala Harris absolutely passed the bar exam. That is how she became the district attorney of San Francisco, and the attorney general in the state of California. And a successful prosecutor. Donald, that is how she will own you in the next debate if you're not too chicken to show up."

"And finally, while we debunked this one multiple times on this show," Reid emphasized, "we must say, yet again, that, no, Democrats do not support the killing of infants after birth. That is called infanticide. It is very, very illegal. A word you know a lot about, Donald, given your 34 count felony conviction, also illegal, having an elective abortion in the ninth month of a pregnancy. Which — just as an idea — is actually insane.

The ReidOut host then directed her attention to NABJ's leadership.

"I also just want to say one quick thing about this invitation," Reid continued. "To the president and board of NABJ: Y'all got played."

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Reid added, "Donald Trump showed up at the convention for exactly three reasons: One, to try to dispel the notion he's scared to debate a Black woman — a presumption one can draw from his refusal to debating VP Harris, who, again, for those in the back, is a Black and Asian woman. It's also why he lost it like a grumpy senior at the retirement home who didn't get his Jell-O dessert when ABC's Rachel Scott challenged him to answer basic questions. And how likely is it that he would have shown up at all the lady from the network that paid 787 million dollars legal settlement wasn't included on the panel."

The second reason, Reid submits, is "to steal the attention that Vice President Kamala Harris has hijacked from him, because she's just more interesting, and her support is more joyous and rooted in popular American culture."

Lastly, Reid emphasized that Trump wants "to create clips to play for his very white, very right-wing MAGA fan base of him standing up to the Blacks."

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