Trump’s comments saying Native Americans ‘don’t look like Indians’ resurface after remarks about Harris’ heritage

Footage of Donald Trump complaining that Native American casino operators “don’t look like Indians to me” has resurfaced in the wake of his shocking comments where he questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’ heritage.

Back in October 1993, Trump spoke at a congressional hearing aboutthe opening of Native American-owned casinos, which would have competed with his own casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The then-businessman had sued the government claiming that Native American casinos had an unfair advantage because, under federal law, they did not pay taxes on casinos on Native American land.

During the hearing, Trump got into a heated exchange with Democratic congressman George Miller where he claimed that many Native American casino owners “don’t look like Indians.”

“Is this you, discussing Indian blood: ‘We’re going to judge people by whether they have Indian blood whether they’re qualified to run a casino or not?’” Miller asked.

Trump responded: “That probably is me, absolutely. Because I’ll tell you what. If you look at some of the reservations that you’ve approved – that you, sir, in your great wisdom have approved – I will tell you right now, they don’t look like Indians to me,” Trump replied.

“And they don’t look like the Indians. Now, maybe we say politically correct or not politically correct, they don’t look like Indians to me, and they don’t look like Indians to Indians,” he added.

Miller fired back at Trump, saying: “Thank God that’s not the test of whether or not people have rights in this country or not – whether or not they pass your ‘look’ test.

“Mr Trump, do you know, do you know in the history of this country where we’ve heard this discussion before? ‘They don’t look Jewish to me. They don’t look