“I’ll answer that question at the right time”, Trump told Costa.
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In an interview with the Washington Post released earlier in the day, Mr Trump declined to say whether he believed Mr Obama was born in Hawaii.
Donald Trump’s campaign on Thursday said he believes President Barack Obama was born in the U.S., a major reversal from a line of attack he launched five years ago.
However, the campaign statement issued later in the evening said that the topic was first raised by Hillary Clinton “in her very nasty, failed 2008 campaign for president”. “It’s not something the next president will be able to do alone either, no matter how tough she is”, Obama said, making an obvious reference to his preferred successor.
Hillary Clinton on Thursday accused rival Donald Trump of fostering ugliness and bigotry by refusing to acknowledge President Barack Obama was born in the United States, and urged Hispanic leaders to stoke a large voter turnout in November’s election.
“I don’t talk about it anymore”, he added.
“I personally think a taco truck on every corner sounds absolutely delicious”, she said to laughs in the convention center hall.
Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, also drew a clear distinction with Trump last Wednesday by saying that he believed Obama was born in the US. “The reason I don’t is because then everyone is going to be talking about it as opposed to jobs, the military, the vets, security”, Trump explained about the conspiracy theory he long championed, about the country’s first African-American president. Now, he’s tried to reset himself and his campaign many times. “I want to focus on jobs, I want to focus on other things”, he said.
If you wondered whether Donald Trump’s style has been moderated to the point where he’s losing his touch, wonder no more.
“He still wouldn’t say Hawaii. He still wouldn’t say America”, Clinton said.
“This man wants to be our next president?” she asked.
Rhetoric during the 2016 U.S. election campaign has been “uglier” than in years past, Barack Obama has said. “It will be the passion of my presidency”, she said. This is who he is.
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“If we just sigh and shake our heads and accept this, then what does that tell our kids about who we are?”
