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A pollster for Donald Trump's campaign received an on-air check Friday when he tried to brush off the former president's racial attacks at an event for Black journalists.

John McLaughlin faced off against CNN anchor Dana Bash as she grilled Trump's in-house data-cruncher on the contrast between Republicans' inclusivity messaging and remarks at the National Association of Black Journalists that were broadly condemned as racist.

Responding to Donald Trump's onslaught of racist attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris' ethnic heritage, MSNBC presented viewers on Friday morning with a super clip of the former president questioning his opponents on race and indulging in birtherism.

As part of the clip, Trump can be seen battling former Rep. George Miller (D-CA) over Native American casinos in 1993 that Trump felt would hurt his own casino business interests.

In the exchange, Miller pressed Trump, "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?’”

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"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'll tell you right now, they don’t look like Indians to me,” Trump shot back.

He then argued, "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. A lot of people are laughing at it. You're telling how tough it is, rough it is, to get approved, When you go up to Connecticut, they don't look like Indians to me, sir."

That led Miller to lecture the future president, "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. "

Following the clip, MSNBC's Ana Cabrera noted, "Congressman George Miller of California, who confronted Trump in that 1993 clip, said that was the most irresponsible testimony he had heard in his 40 years in Congress."

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Reflecting on Donald Trump's doubling down on his attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris' racial makeup, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson speculated on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that there seems to be something deeply wrong with the former president.

With fill-in host Jonathan Lemire sharing Trump's smears of Harris on his Truth Social platform, the "Morning Joe" panel agreed Trump may not realize how bad it is making him look.

After MSNBC regular Mike Barnicle called Trump a "badly, deeply damaged individual," Robinson pounced.

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"I would absolutely agree. Beneath all that bluster, who am I to diagnose him?" the journalist admitted. "I'm not a psychologist, but there is clearly some deep insecurity and feeling of inadequacy that causes him to continually lash out and puff himself up and adopt this air of infallibility, which is absurd."

"But that's who he is," he continued. "I think he is a really, really damaged person, and, you know, because of that and for a lot of other reasons, he's really dangerous. And he proved that in four years as president. He would prove it again if he were ever allowed near the White House again."

"This is not a well man," he concluded.

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