Trump tells Adin Ross he wants to ‘fire’ Black journalist who grilled him onstage

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Donald Trump said he would “fire” the ABC News journalist who grilled him about his past comments during a panel at the National Association of Black Journalists convention on July 31. “This woman starts talking … about racism, and I said, ‘You didn’t even say hello to me,’ and I’m doing them a favor by doing this,” Trump told Ross on Monday. She was very nasty.” He later said that “if I owned that network I would fire her so fast.” Donald Trump appears on popular livestreamer Adin Ross’s Kick stream on August 5 During his appearance at the NABJ conference in Chicago, Trump also baselessly questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity and falsely claimed that she only recently “made a turn” and “became a Black person.” Scott has since reportedly faced threats to her life following the interview, while Trump’s remarks revived racist “birther” conspiracy theories and false characterizations about Harris’s biracial identity. The NABJ executive director reportedly 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.” Ross — a 23-year-old streamer with a mostly young male audience of more than 1.4 million Kick followers and 4.4 million YouTube subscribers — fawned over the former president during a 90-minute stream and gave him a Rolex and a Tesla Cybertruck wrapped in images of the former president.