“Now we want to all get back to making America great again”. Hillary was the original, she was questioning Obama, then John McCain questioned, but they never got anything.
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“You know who Donald Trump is”, Clinton said, just before Trump was expected to address the issue across town at his new hotel near the White House.
In the meantime, here is what other media outlets are saying about Trump and his possible reversal on the “birther” issue.
At the same gala dinner, President Barack Obama said the political season’s discussion of immigration “has cut deeper than in years past”.
He made the comment before a meeting to discuss free trade.
“I would hope the USA election would be about more serious issues than this”.
However, despite his campaign team releasing a statement acknowledging President Obama was born in Hawaii, he has not directly answered any questions on the issue – in a move that was slammed by Clinton. In an interview with The Washington Post on September 15th, Trump said that he will “answer that question at the right time” and that he doesn’t want to address it yet.
Trump’s reversal comes as he courts minority voters and just two days after the business mogel told The Washington Post that he was unwilling to admit Obama was born in the U.S.
An additional 31 percent of Republicans neither agreed nor disagreed with the statement and only a quarter of Republicans surveyed believed Obama was born in the U.S. Many people do not think it was authentic.
Trump had always been one of the most vocal proponents of the birther movement in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election and even after Obama released his long-form certificate of live birth in April of 2011, including statements to reporters that he didn’t know the president’s birthplace as late as July of 2015. He still wouldn’t say America.
Trump’s Democratic rival Hillary Clinton at a speech in Washington, D.C., attacked Trump over his most recent refusal to answer.
After Trump on Thursday again demurred on Obama’s nationality, his campaign was forced to issue a statement.
“Having successfully obtained President Obama’s birth certificate when others could not, Mr. Trump believes that President Obama was born in the United States”, said Jason Miller, Trump’s senior communications adviser”.
At an event Friday morning before the Black Women’s Agenda symposium, Hillary Clinton swatted at Trump, saying, “Bigotry lurks in our country”, and that Trump owes President Obama an apology.
Donald Trump speaks to supporters at Laconia Middle School in Laconia, New Hampshire.
Donald Trump has still not acknowledged the fact that President Obama was born in the U.S..
“Hillary brought it up during the campaign”.
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Over the years, Trump had tweeted several challenges to Obama and others regarding the issue, one time urging hackers to find Obama’s college records, which he has refused to release, “and check ‘place of birth'”. In August 2012, he was pushing the issue on Twitter.
