By late in the night, the Trump Campaign alleged that the issue questioning the birth place of Obama was first raised by the Clinton Campaign in 2008 when she was running for presidential elections.
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There is no evidence that is true, and Clinton and her allies have strongly denied that suggestion. Because here is what we know: “that being president isn’t anything like reality TV”, Mrs. Obama said, referring to Trump, a former reality television host. “It’s about who will have the power to shape our children for the next four years of their lives”, Clinton said Thursday during a campaign stop in Greensboro, North Carolina. After five years as one of the so-called “birther” movement’s leaders-and his own campaign team recently admitting Obama was born in Hawaii-Trump answered a question from the Washington Post about his own thoughts on the matter by saying he’d “answer that question at the right time. He can’t just take it back”. That’s false, as many fact-checkers have pointed out. And the cable networks ran it.
She continued: “If a candidate is erratic and threatening; if a candidate traffics in prejudice, fears and lies on the trail; if a candidate has no clear plans to implement their goals; if they disrespect their fellow citizens, including folks who made extraordinary sacrifices for our country; let me tell you, that is who they are”.
“You watch my statement; we have to keep the suspense going”, he said. Trump was expected to talk to reporters Friday morning at his new hotel in Washington, less than a mile from where Clinton was speaking.
As polls show Trump has a real chance of winning, many Republicans who opposed him have either come around or quieted down.
“Donald Trump is unfit to be present of the United States”, she said to loud applause. “I just don’t want to answer it yet”, Trump told The Post.
Mrs Clinton seized on Trump’s refusal during a speech on Thursday night before the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. “This man wants to be our next president? It was a simple interview”, she said.
Trump’s extraordinary attempt to prove Obama was not a natural-born United States citizen and was therefore not qualified to be president started on the conservative fringe but gathered momentum and became a major issue.
Jason Miller, a campaign spokesman, released a statement reading, “In 2011, Mr. Trump was finally able to bring this ugly incident to its conclusion by successfully compelling President Obama to release his birth certificate”.
Update: Hillary Clinton released a statement in response to Donald Trump’s press conference: “Trump’s actions today were disgraceful”.
The facts do not match Miller’s description.
The confirmation is a response to the “birther” movement, which questions whether Obama was born outside the United States. In August 2012, for example, he was pushing the issue on Twitter.
Obama roused the crowd with economic news released this week by the Census bureau showing that previous year the USA experienced the first significant increase in household income since 2007 and the number of people living in poverty fell, the report continued.
American voters, we believe, aren’t going to fall for it. “Who cares right now”, Trump said on January 6 on CNN. “We’re talking about something else, okay?”
Reggie Love, the longtime traveling aide to Obama, wrote in his book that Clinton and Obama had a heated conversation about the notion that Clinton supporters were sending emails saying that he was a Muslim.
Such attacks have caused many black voters to turn sharply against Trump, offended that he would challenge the qualifications of the country’s first black president. Trump repeatedly questioned Obama’s birth in the years after Obama released his birth certificate.
He said similar things to “The View”, at CPAC, to ABC and to others. While Trump obviously wants praise for finally dropping his birtherism (and I’m sure in some quarters he’ll get it), this statement should be added to the list of outrageously reprehensible, dishonest things Trump has said.
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Trump spoke against a backdrop of veterans in a sprawling ballroom at his new Washington hotel.
