“I’ll answer that question at the right time”, Trump told the paper.
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The New York businessman offered no apology for the ongoing attacks on Obama. The second claim, that Trump put the birther issue to rest by forcing Obama to produce his birth certificate, is likewise false, as Trump continued to question Obama’s citizenship for years afterward.
“Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy”.
Journalists and fact-checking sites have repeatedly debunked this theory.
But as panic sets in for those who fear a Trump presidency, Democrats say a closer race could motivate anti-Trump voters who now back third-party candidates or plan on staying home to get off the sidelines and onto Clinton’s team.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called out Trump’s accusation: “Hillary brought it up?”
When the event finally began, Trump’s first comments were about the “nice” hotel that he said is both “under budget and ahead of schedule”. Obama took to the White House Briefing Room to blast Trump as a “carnival barker”. And that’s because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter, like, did we fake the moon landing?
His campaign late Thursday issued a statement after the Post story was published, with a spokesman saying that Trump now believes that Obama was born in the United States and that he had performed a “great service” to Obama and the country by “bringing closure to the issue”. He isn’t. He’s feeding into the worst impulses, the bigotry and bias that lurks in our country. “President Obama was born in the United States”.
Some media outlets noted that, as recently as this week, Trump declined to disavow his belief Obama was not born in the USA, when asked by WaPo, saying it was not the right time to address. The birther issue has forced him into an untenable situation where he has had no choice.
Trump’s recently installed campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, told a reporter earlier this week that Trump had changed his mind and now believes Obama was born in the United States.
Clinton, speaking Friday to an African-American women’s group in Washington, D.C, dismissed Trump’s changed position, accusing him of leading “the birther movement to de-legitimize our first black president”, and adding that his entire presidential campaign was “founded on this outrageous lie”.
“You watch my statement; we have to keep the suspense going”, he said.
Staffers from the major TV networks made the decision after the campaign refused to allow a producer to join Trump on a tour of his new Washington, D.C., hotel, according to Politico and other media outlets.
For years, Trump elevated a conspiracy theory – not grounded at all in fact – that became so controversial the White House released a long-form birth certificate in 2011.
Clinton seized on Trump’s refusal during a speech Thursday night before the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. “He still wouldn’t say America”, Clinton said.
It’s got to be brutal trying to staff a boss who hates telling the truth as clearly and quickly as possible so you have to distract the public by turning the attention away from her Nichols said.
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During a stop in Chicago on his first visit to the United States, Khan said he was “a big fan” of Clinton and hoped she would win the presidential election in November.
There is no evidence that is true, and Clinton and her allies have strongly denied that suggestion.
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Donald Trump is sending a message loud and clear: not only journalists can be adversarial. It’s fairly typical. I was pretty confident about where I was born. I think most people were as well.
