In an interview on MSNBC, host Chris Matthews said that Trump’s running mate Mike Pence says Mr. Obama was born in the US and asked if Giuliani could confirm or agree with that assessment. We all believe it. “I believe it, he believes it, we all believe it, but it took a long time to get it out”.
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“Yes, he believes”, Giuliani Thursday night told Hardball host Chris Matthews.
“Certainly, in that system, he’s been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader”, Trump said, when asked about his repeated praise and kind words for Putin despite Russia’s increasing aggression toward the United States. “He’s not been a particularly successful president and that’s what this campaign has been about”.
Every major United States presidential nominee since Richard Nixon has released their tax returns before the election, but Trump has repeatedly punted on the issue.
Donald Trump speaks to the crowd at a rally at the Mississippi Coliseum on August 24, 2016 in Jackson, Mississippi. But I find the entire topic really incredible. Conway said. “It’s no question to me, he was born in the United States”.
“Rather than capturing people because Obama didn’t want to fill up Guantanamo, he used drones to kill them”, the former NY mayor said.
The “routine audit” has largely been the standard line from Trump’s campaign, though the IRS has said that audits do not prohibit people from making their tax returns public.
Is Trump’s birther past going to hurt him this year?
“He clearly has something to hide”, she said this week.
The birther issue hasn’t been raised much this year as an offensive weapon against either Obama or Clinton, but it has been used against Trump by his critics, who see his championing it as an example of both his innate racial animus and general detachment from reality. And your candidate has on numerous occasions.
‘I think it’s inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama has been in this country.
“We checked this before you came on”, Matthews added.
Giuliani persisted: “I believe he picked up on what Hillary Clinton’s campaign said”.
10 “Was it a birth certificate? And it showed he was born in Hawaii”.
“The president believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn’t good for the country”, former White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer said in a statement at the time.
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Democrats led by presidential nominee Hillary Clinton have lambasted Mr Trump’s withholding of his returns, saying voters deserve the information his returns would provide about his businesses, tax rate, and charitable giving.
