Trump also told his audience, many of them Cuban Americans, that he would reverse the Obama administration’s actions which have eased restrictions on the relationship between the U.S. and Cuba.
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But Trump did not apologize to President Obama.
Yet Trump latched onto it.
Trump wondered how Clinton would fare under those circumstances. “He says whatever he thinks he should say, what he’s directed by his team to say, to make him seem like a better human that we should all vote for”.
He started appearing on cable news to discuss it.
In fact, Trump repeatedly continued to question Obama’s birth in the years after the president released his birth certificate. He let it linger, until this week – when the issue finally reached a breaking point. Mook said then, “A person seeking to be the president of the United States should not suggest violence in any way”. Rather than take his message to the NAACP convention in July (an invitation he declined) or to the Black Women’s Agenda Symposium on Friday in Washington (an invitation he declined), Trump spoke to overwhelmingly white audiences.
“We got played, again, by the Trump campaign, which is what they do”, CNN’s chief national correspondent John King said after the news channel showed live the GOP nominee for almost 20 minutes waiting for the major announcement coming from Mr. Trump.
Saturday’s rally in Virginia was Ms. Obama’s first solo campaign event for Clinton and comes almost two months after her star turn at the Democratic convention.
“There is no erasing it in history”.
But most galling was what Trump didn’t say after declaring, “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period”.
“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy”.
Obama was also asked about it. “We live in a country where a biracial kid from Hawaii named Barack Obama, the son of a single mother, can become president”, Obama said, citing the ability for immigrants to come to the United States and achieve economic success. Well, I’m not that shocked actually.
Clinton Slams Trump on “Birther” Comments Hillary Clinton slammed Trump over his role in the so-called “birther” movement that questioned President Obama’s citizenship. But Clinton’s team intends to baste him in his old words – and roast him in them until election day, November 8.
If the Clinton campaign continues to deploy Michelle Obama this effectively, he will eventually have to try to come up with some response.
With Clinton at home recovering from pneumonia and video footage on repeat on newscasts and social media of the dehydrated, overheated candidate struggling to stand up on her own, Trump went on daytime TV and introduced his testosterone levels into the political conversation; released a plan to help parents with childcare expenses; showed up at a black church in MI knowing he could face a tough crowd (and did); held rallies with energetic supporters in three battleground states; toured the Pro Football Hall of Fame where he jauntily tossed a football (a few feet) on camera, and stepped up his appearances on cable news shows. That origin story can’t be unwritten.
For the first time, Donald Trump said publicly the president is, indeed, American by birth. Just the opposite in fact, because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is and there is no way to hide who they really are.
The networks stuck with the event, essentially a Trump commercial, until Fox News Channel pulled away at 11:25 a.m. for a studio discussion and the other two networks shortly followed suit.
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It took a few weeks longer than that for Trump to close the gap with the Democratic presidential nominee, who returned to the campaign trail eager to move past visualizations of her stumbling and dizzy. “It’s the oldest play in the Democratic play book – and Americans have had enough”.
