Rachel Scott’s piercing interview at National Association of Black Journalists event left former president fuming

ABC News’s senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott has reportedly faced threats to her life after her piercing interview of Donald Trump at the National Association of Black Journalists convention left the former president fuming.

The NABJ’s executive director told members at a meeting on Saturday that “Scott had received death threats following her work asking incisive questions of … Trump at the group’s national convention” three days earlier, Eric Deggans of National Public Radio wrote in an X post published Saturday.

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Scott asked Trump on Wednesday, “Why should Black voters trust you?” given his history of inflammatory comments about Black people. Among other questions, she also quizzed him about whether he believed Vice-President Kamala Harris had risen to the top of the Democratic ticket for November’s White House election solely “because she is a Black woman”.

    • anon_8675309@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 months ago

      I can just imagine the spittle flying from the full lipped, meaty jowled, flushed faces of his most rabid white boy supporters as they scream in their shrill voices that a woman has no place questioning their president.

  • Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1436·
    4 months ago

    US politics is toxic because it is divisive

    two parties have hijacked our elections and created football politics that pit one side against the other

    should be different voices with multiple different representators in government just like the voters if all were allowed to vote

    • ccunning@lemmy.world
      315·
      4 months ago

      two parties have hijacked our elections and created football politics that pit one side against the other

      THaeYRe baSICALLLY ThE SA aME!

      • Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
        339·
        4 months ago

        just because the two parties have different vehicles their destination for the people is the same

        • Gumby@lemmy.worldEnglish
          211·
          4 months ago

          That is 100% untrue, considering one party’s destination is fascism.

          • Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
            227·
            4 months ago

            what do you call it when both parties are for locking up kids at the border just for one example

            or what do call it when both parties support over funding the police without more regulations and oversight

            there are numerous examples

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      412·
      4 months ago

      Political parties should be abolished. Imagine how much more attention you would have yo pay if you had to understand who to vote for. Plus then it would allow people like your local mail carrier to run for things like school committee.

      • Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
        217·
        4 months ago

        thank you my point exactly

        case in point is the mail why wouldn’t a mail carrier be votable to congress or senate or president or any government position

        not only would the expertise come in to play but people would finally see something like participating in government a reality like running for offices for themselves or just voting

        would break the traditional rule of the US and shatter the elites’ power