Molly Jong-Fast on CNN Interview: Asking About Trump Questioning Harris’ Blackness Isn’t ‘Substantive’

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JONG-FAST: “So, when she says, 'Donald Trump says this racist slur about you and questions your identity,' like, okay. That’s Donald Trump. It says more about Donald Trump than it does about her. I mean, my problem with this interview was that I thought that the Harris-Walz ticket did actually really well, but if you want information from people, if you want policy, if you want to know what they would do, the way to do that is to ask real, substantive questions, and not just these sort of very Republican-framed talking points, or to ask them to sort of defend themselves against things that aren’t — I mean, that was just an attack on her. It wasn’t a question, there is no question there, she is who she is, and it is pretty offensive. So, that moment, I thought she dealt with that as well as anyone could deal with something like that, but imagine if someone asked me, like, 'Are you Jewish?' I am Jewish, that’s it. Somebody says I’m not Jewish, that’s okay, but I am."