There is no evidence that that is true.
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In an interview, he told the Washington Post he wasn’t “ready” to say whether or not he believed Obama was born in the United States.
“Hillary Clinton’s campaign first raised this issue to smear then-candidate Barack Obama in her very nasty, failed 2008 campaign for President”, that statement, emailed to reporters, declared.
“I finished it”, Trump said. Just yesterday, Trump again refused to say with his own words that the president was born in the United States.
Instead, Trump spent most of the time touting the new hotel and inviting veterans on up to the podium to shower the candidate with praise. His statement of a few seconds came only after a lengthy campaign event featuring military officers and award winners who have endorsed him. Clinton has also denied the claim and has repeatedly criticized Trump on the issue. I can criticize Hillary Clinton for this, that, and the other thing.
“Try to overcome my depression, and then figure out where we go from there”, Sanders said on CNN Thursday night.
While promoting his newest hotel in Washington, D.C. on Friday, Donald Trump finally put to rest the birther controversy he has so often fueled. Barack Obama was born in America, plain and simple.
Mrs Clinton had attacked Mr Trump over the issue on her return to the campaign trail after a three-day break ordered by her doctor. “There is no erasing it in history”, Clinton said.
“Donald Trump is unfit to be present of the United States”, she said to loud applause. The White House initially tried to ignore the birtherism movement as the work of conspiracy theorists, but Trump’s huge media profile propelled the issue through conservative media and it eventually gained traction. “And I’m going to work as hard as I can to prevent Trump from becoming president”, he said.
The statement provoked fury from members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who gathered for a press conference, called Trump a “disgusting fraud”, demanded that he apologize to President Obama and urged voters to speed to the polls to defeat him in November.
Trump’s claim that Clinton was the one who first brought up the “birther” claim has previously been rated false by Politifact and given four pinocchios by The Washington Post Fact Checker. “This man wants to be our next president? When will he stop this ugliness, this bigotry?” she said.
Many reporters, some standing on chairs, began shouting questions over the applause from the guests in attendance.
“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”. He spent much of his speech decrying the state of American politics without naming Donald Trump, declaring that American voters don’t believe the country faces as grave of a threat as some want them to believe.
“Trump’s actions today were disgraceful”.
Nearly immediately after the Post interview took place, Trump senior communications adviser Jason Miller released the campaign’s official position on Obama’s birth, in a damage control effort. In August 2012, he was pushing the issue on Twitter.
Obama made the comment before a meeting to discuss free trade.
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He said: ‘I was pretty confident about where I was born. “My hope would be the presidential election reflects more serious issues than that”.
