Trump talk to Black journalists conference prompts co-chair to quit

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Trump talk to ****** journalists conference prompts co-chair to quit

Washington Post Editor Karen Attiah leads a discussion on Saudi hacking techniques at the Oslo Freedom Forum 2019 on May 28, 2019 in Oslo, Norway. 

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The co-chair of the annual

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convention stepped down Tuesday in apparent reaction to that group’s decision to have former President Donald Trump speak at its convention and career fair in

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on Wednesday, among other factors.

“To the journalists interviewing Trump, I wish them the best of luck,” NABJ24 convention co-chair

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wrote in a social media post announcing her decision to resign her position. “For everyone else, I’m looking forward to meeting and reconnecting with all of you in the Windy City.”

“While my decision was influenced by a variety of factors, I was not involved or consulted with in any way with the decision to platform Trump in such a format,” wrote Attiah, a columnist for The Washington Post who writes about international affairs, culture and human rights issues.

Founded in 1975, NABJ is the largest association of journalists of ****** in the ******* States. Over the years it has hosted speakers who included then-presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, as well as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

CNBC has requested comment from Attiah and from NABJ, as well as from a spokesman for Trump’s presidential campaign about Attiah’s announcement.

Tia Mitchell, the Washington correspondent for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, in her own post on X responded to controversy over Trump’s appearance, saying she helped arrange the event as a chair member of NABJ’s political task force.

“I helped make this call. And it’s in line with invitations NABJ has sent to every presidential candidate for decades,” wrote Mitchell

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. “But continue to go off on your feed. I’ll continue to work to create opportunities for journalists to interview the potential next President.”

Mitchell’s post was only visible to users who she had given access to.

NABJ on Monday announced that the *********** nominee Trump would “participate in a conversation with journalists” at the convention before attendees.

The group said the event with Trump will be moderated by Rachel Scott, the senior congressional correspondent for ABC News, Fox News’ Harris Faulkner, anchor of The Faulkner Focus and co-host of Outnumbered, and Semafor politics reporter Kadia Goba.

NABJ said it has also invited the Democratic Party’s de-facto presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, to speak at the convention. “Her confirmation is pending,” the group said.

Harris’s father is ******, and her mother was born in India. If elected president, she would be the first woman and the first South ****** person elected president.

During his presidency, Trump was criticized for making ******* remarks when he referred to

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as “s—***** countries” during a meeting with senators at the White House in 2018.

Trump’s nephew

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recounted hearing Donald Trump twice using the n-word, in his newly released memoir, after finding that his convertible had been slashed while parked. Trump’s campaign said Fred Trump’s claim was “total fake news of the highest order.”

*********** presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he campaigns in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. July 24, 2024. 

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Donald Trump and his father Fred Trump were sued by the

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in 1973 for allegedly discriminating against ****** would-be tenants in their New York housing complexes because of their race.

Donald Trump has noted that he and his father settled the case two years later “with no admission of guilt.”

Attiah was named NABJ’s journalist of the year in 2019.

The same year, she won

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, one of the most prestigious prizes in ********* journalism, along with fellow Post columnist David Ignatius, for their writings about the ******* of

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in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey in November 2018.

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Attiah, whose parents are from the ******** nations of

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, had recruited Khashoggi to The Post and hired him.

Trump, who was president at the time of Khashoggi’s *******, rejected the conclusions by the

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that the ******** was done on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The State Department in March 2020, while Trump remained in the White House, blamed Saudi Arabian government agents for the *******.

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