“We want to talk about the issues and putting Americans back to work”. There is no evidence that is true.
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But, Thursday night, his campaign also issued a statement tracing the rumor to his opponent, Hillary Clinton.
He’s been dodging the question for the entire 2016 campaign, although he used to go on insane tweet rants and even made a video statement offering Obama $5 million to produce his paperwork in 2011.
The Clinton campaign and the media have consistently refuted Trump’s claim Clinton started the birther movement, which Trump re-upped Friday when he said for the first publicly that he believes Obama was born in the United States.
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. Shortly afterward, the stage collapsed on live TV.
He repeated the same line when asked about it during a gaggle with reporters aboard his plane last week. “We have to keep the suspense going”, Trump said.
“Donald Trump looks at President Obama after 8 years as our president, he still doesn’t see him as an American”, Clinton said during her Friday remarks.
Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon responded to Friday’s acknowledgement by saying Trump “took no responsibility for his bigoted attacks on our president”.
In recent days, Trump has erased Clinton’s earlier advantages in national polls.
Mr Trump’s turn as the lead advocate of the so-called “birther” movement has been a drag on the Republican’s standings among black voters.
The birther idea, which he now denies, provided Trump with his entry into Republican politics and for years has defined his status as an “outsider” who is willing to challenge convention.
The Republican nominee in 2011 was a force behind a movement arguing, without evidence, that Obama was born overseas.
“I’ll answer that question at the right time”.
“I just don’t want to answer it yet”, he said.
Cable news channels replayed old clips of Trump’s conspiracy theorizing about Obama’s citizenship on loop Thursday night into.
On a day when Donald Trump, again, was raising questions about President Barack Obama’s birthplace, the first lady didn’t mention the GOP nominee by name, but made a clear argument that he is unqualified and unprepared for the presidency. The latest Quinnipiac poll out this week found that 62 percent of Americans believe Clinton is qualified while 61 percent believe Trump is not.
“That was the case in the ’08 campaign; she got better as Obama rose”, said Tom Bowen, an Illinois-based Democratic strategist. Clinton, however, refuted the Trump’s allegations that she raised the birth issue of Obama. “This sickening display shows more than ever why Donald Trump is totally unfit be president”.
“President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period”.
Here, we’ll fact-check the assertion that Trump “finished it”.
That’s BS because well into 2012, Trump was still questioning Obama in a way that only Trump could.
August 6, 2012: “An “extremely credible source” has called my office and told me that @BarackObama’s birth certificate is a fraud”.
“We know who Donald is”, Clinton said.
In the months since that event, reports have looked into Trump’s other business dealings, including possible (but unconfirmed) ties to Russian Federation, as well as the surprising amount of campaign money being spent on Trump-branded enterprises, raising even more questions about whether Trump, if elected president, would be able to separate his political operation from his personal financial interests. I was pretty confident about where I was born.
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The New York businessman led the birther movement aimed at Mr Obama, who was born in Hawaii to an American mother and a Kenyan father.
