Ex-president appears to defend earlier call for death penalty and struggles to account for comments on vice-president
During the presidential debate on Tuesday, Donald Trump appeared to defend his decades-old calls for the reinstatement of the death penalty after five Black and Latino teenagers known as the Central Park Five were wrongfully convicted of rape in New York.
When moderators asked the former president and Kamala Harris to speak on the topic of race in America, Trump struggled to account for his previous remarks questioning Harris’s racial identity – and to deal with his fraught history on the subject.
“I don’t care what she is. I don’t care,” Trump said.” You make a big deal out of something, I couldn’t care less, whatever she wants to be is OK with me.
