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Posted: 2019-06-29T01:27:23Z | Updated: 2019-07-01T16:56:36Z

A new iteration of Donald Trump s racist and fallacious birtherism attack on former President Barack Obama is suddenly surging on social media, this time against Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.).

The apparently bot-aided onslaught is claiming the senator doesnt represent U.S. blacks because her father was born in Jamaica. Harris, an American of both Jamaican and Indian descent, was born in Oakland, California.

Donald Trump Jr. retweeted the original attack but later deleted it. Meanwhile, the presidents former campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson tried to discredit Harris another way, indicating she is not African enough to run as a minority presidential candidate. She tweeted that while Obama is actually African-American Harris is not , even though people of African descent have lived in Jamaica for centuries.