Trump’s record of insulting Black communities highlighted by top Democrat on Juneteenth: Latest updates

Donald Trump has been attacked over his record of insulting Black America and Black-majority cities by Jaime Harrison, chair of the Democratic National Committee, on Juneteenth — the federal holiday marking the end of slavery in the United States after the Civil War.

“That’s why when we go to the polls on November 5, we’re going to vote for someone who respects Black communities,” he said in a pitch for Joe Biden’s reelection.

Trump staged his latest campaign rally in Racine, Wisconsin, on Tuesday and was forced to row back his comments on Milwaukee after reportedly describing the city as “horrible” last week.

“I love Milwaukee,” he insisted, later also denying he planned to stay 95 miles away in Chicago during the Republican convention next month.

What followed was an error-strewn address in which Trump attacked immigrants, his enemies on Capitol Hill, school vaccines, and the president whom he mistakenly referred to as “Joe Bride”.

This came after Trump lost his latest bid to have the gag order overturned in his New York hush-money case, at which he was found guilty on 34 felony counts last month, and after he declared that business leaders who do not support him in November should be“FIRED for incompetence”.

A witness has told the House Ethics Committee that Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz paid her for sex, a report alleges.

Investigators with the committee have conducted a number of interviews behind closed doors with women who were witnesses in the sex trafficking investigation conducted by the Department of Justice, according to ABC News.

The investigators have spoken to at least half a dozen women who are alleged to have attended parties also frequented by Gaetz.

Gustaf Kilander reports from Washington, DC: