In his statement, Miller said also accused the Clinton campaign of 2008 of raising this issue against Obama during that year’s Democratic primaries, though there’s no evidence tying those charges to the candidate.
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Lewis, a civil rights pioneer and Democratic congressman, spoke with “Face the Nation” moderator John Dickerson from inside the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
Beginning in 2011, Trump as the de-facto leader of the so-called “birther movement” made frequent television appearances questioning whether Obama was born in the US, and demanded the president release his birth certificate. Because here is what we know: That being president isn’t anything like reality TV.
This isn’t the first time Trump has danced around implying that he thinks Hillary Clinton should be shot because of her views on gun control. He still doesn’t see him as an American.
Furthermore, as the Atlantic and Politico reported in 2008, neither Clinton nor her campaign acted on Penn’s advice. But Penn’s memo did not question Obama’s birthplace or his birth certificate.
Trump has often cited the country as a model of a failed state, warning that if Clinton is elected, she’ll turn the US into Venezuela.
“She goes around with armed bodyguards like you have never seen before”.
Critics called Trump reckless and unsafe last month for telling a North Carolina crowd there was nothing they could do about Clinton naming judges if she’s elected, “although the 2nd Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know”.
Over the years, that’s never been enough for Trump.
In a subsequent interview with The Associated Press, Butterfield acknowledged an “enthusiasm issue in the African-American community” but said Clinton was working to address it by appearing more frequently in the black community and speaking to issues that black voters care about, including criminal justice reform and jobs.
Donald Trump hogged the cameras yet again on Friday, playing the cable networks for fools and getting more than 20 minutes of free advertising for his new hotel and campaign.
The birther issue was long the province of conservative talk show hosts and far right politicians who opposed Obama’s candidacy and then his presidency. On Friday he finally conceded that Obama was USA born.
Only after that did Trump make a brief statement about Obama´s birth.
Trump had for years promoted the birther movement against Obama, who was born in Hawaii to an American mother and a Kenyan father. “These are in your face kinds of efforts on the part of one man who is utilizing – I should say misusing the media – in order to heap indignities upon the President of these United States”, said Rep. Jim Clyburn. It was already finished, at least to our satisfaction. While Mr. Blumenthal offered no concrete proof of Obama’s Kenyan birth, I felt that, as journalists, we had a responsibility to determine whether or not those rumors were true.
Both candidates have been protected by the Secret Service for months, but Trump’s latest take on Clinton’s security detail brought swift denunciations, particularly from Clinton allies. And in 2013 he retweeted someone who alleged the long-form birth certificate was “a computer generated forgery”.
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That despite his campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, claiming a week ago that Trump does believe Obama was born in the U.S. To that, Trump told the Post, “It’s okay”.
