At first I was like, WTF...

But Trump's performance at the NABJ turned out to be a gift to the Harris campaign.

ABC’s Rachel Scott asked the right questions and didn’t back down.

When I first heard that NABJ had invited Trump to their meeting in Chicago, I was like, WTF. Especially after co-chair, Karen Attiah announced she was stepping down in protest of giving Trump a “platform” at the gathering.

My response wasn’t so much about NABJ’s invitation. I knew that was going to be a shit show. It was more about us letting that fascist slug into our fair city in the first place that got my blood boiling. I harkened back to March 11, 2016, the last time DT came to town. He was planning to give a campaign speech at the UIC Pavilion. But no speech was given that night. Instead, confronted by about 25,000 protesters, mostly students from around the city, he turned and fled town.

The last time Trump came to Chicago in 2016, he had to flee an angry crowd of young protesters at the UIC Pavillion.

But that was then, this is now. This time, Trump was allowed to hold forth and spew his racist garbage. Trump actually questioned Harris’s racial identity, saying she only “became a Black person” recently. It was reminiscent of the line of attack he used against Barack Obama when he created the Birther Movement and challenged Obama’s eligibility falsely claiming he wasn’t born in the US. That line failed. This one will too.

Trump claimed:

Kamala Harris “was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she became a Black person.”

He told the group he was “the best president for the Black population” since Abraham Lincoln.

Asked what he meant when he once said immigrants were taking “Black jobs,” he said: “A Black job is anybody who has a job.”

There were still some protesters outside the NABJ meeting. But it was DT himself, barking racist epithets in response to the journo’s questions, who crapped his pants (politically speaking) without any help from the demonstrators.

The audience got into it.

Now, in retrospect, I think it all worked out. NABJ took a hit, which they deserved. The three journalists asked the right questions and didn’t back down or let DT play the bully. The audience got into it, booing, laughing, and mocking his responses.

He’s made himself a big, easy-to-hit target. Now it’s up to Harris and the campaign to carry it through until November. Not like the non-campaign they were running when Joe Biden was their candidate.