She said that while sitting at home this week was “pretty much the last place I wanted to be” the time helped clarify how she wants to end her campaign against Mr Trump.
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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has accused Donald Trump of fostering ugliness and bigotry by refusing to acknowledge President Barack Obama was born in the USA and asked Americans to reject the bluster and bigotry of her Republican rival in November’s election. For years Trump has been an outspoken voice in the “birther” movement, which alleged that Obama was born outside the USA and thus is not eligible to be president.
A few years into his presidency, Obama, the first African American to win the White House, released a longer version of his birth certificate to answer those who suggested he was not USA born. Inarguably, Donald J. Trump is a closer.
“He’s tried to reset himself and his campaign many times”.
“Trump needs to say it himself”.
Earlier in the day Thursday, Hillary Clinton, at her first campaign event since she was diagnosed with pneumonia and forced to leave a September 11 memorial event Sunday with health issues, tore into Trump for his support of the so-called “birther movement”.
Hillary Clinton slammed Donald Trump on Thursday for again declining to answer a question about where President Barack Obama was born, asking: “When will he stop this ugliness, this bigotry?”
Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961. “I told you, I don’t talk about it anymore”.
Clinton, 68, has blood pressure of 100 over 70, and her total cholesterol is 189, according to her doctor. “So we’ve got to come back twice as strong and twice as clear”, she said. Many African Americans object to Trump’s involvement in the “birther” movement and the implication that Obama’s presidency was illegitimate.
Trump’s Democratic rival Hillary Clinton at a speech in Washington, D.C., attacked Trump over his most recent refusal to answer.
Late Thursday, the Trump campaign released a statement saying the candidate did in fact believe Obama was born in the U.S.
“I don’t talk about it because if I talk about that, your whole thing will be about that”, he told reporters aboard his plane last week.
In April 2011, Trump challenged Obama to show his birth certificate, gaining approval from Republicans including former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who had been the Republican vice presidential candidate in the 2008 race.
In a wider sense, his misinformation campaign about Obama’s birthplace also amounted to an attempt to delegitimize an elected American President.
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“Don’t believe the biased and phoney media quoting people who work for my campaign”, he tweeted in May.
