Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump finally admitted on Friday that President Obama is a legitimate citizen of the United States.
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“President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period”. “I just don’t want to answer it yet”.
Trump also claimed he “finished” the birther theory. And that he did.
“I’m going to be making a major statement on this whole thing and what Hillary did”, he told the Fox Business Network.
Penn’s memo in March 2007, while not raising the issue of Obama’s citizenship, did identify Obama’s “lack of American roots” as something that “could hold him back”.
“Trump is a closer”, Miller said in a statement.
“We’re not going to take it anymore”.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump raised the threat of violence against his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton again on Friday, suggesting her Secret Service guards voluntarily disarm and “see what happens to her”. Supporters of Clinton made those claims, but there is no evidence of Clinton or her campaign questioning Obama’s birthplace. “I want to focus on jobs, I want to focus on other things”, he said.
“The campaign, nor Hillary, did not start the birther movement”. It was 2008. She brought it up.
That accusation by Trump has been consistently found to be false. Clinton drove the point home later in the day when she tweeted, “The birther lie is what turned Trump from an ordinary reality TV star into a political figure”.
Mr Obama was dismissive of Mr Trump’s announcement.
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. Clinton’s 2008 campaign also denied that it had anything to do with the rumor. “On camera. And admit he was wrong for trying to delegitimize the country’s first African American President”, Fallon wrote. “His campaign was founded on this lie. There is no erasing it in history”, she said.
But even that statement, which argued that Mr Trump had done a “great service” to the country and to Mr Obama himself by “compelling” him to release his full-form birth certificate in 2011, can not be taken as the end of the matter since it was signed not by the candidate but by a spokesman.
Meanwhile, in a more light hearted moment, Mr Trump’s enigmatic hair has been put to the test on USA television. “There never will be”. “I just don’t want to answer it yet”. 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.
“He was asked one more time: Where was President Obama born?”
Refusing to join the debate on his birth place, US President Barack Obama today said he is “shocked” that a question like this would come up at a time when other pressing issues are facing the nation.
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In August 2012 – more than a year after the president released the document in April 2011 – Trump was pushing the issue on Twitter.
