Trump was one of the leading voices who insisted that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, despite the president proving that he was born in Hawaii.
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Mr. Trump also alleged that Clinton’s campaign relies on the exhausted tactic of smearing opponents who question her policies as racists. “His campaign was founded on this outrageous lie”.
Clinton’s doctor too proclaimed her healthy “other than a sinus and ear infection and her recently diagnosed pneumonia” – leaving aside a history of falls and a concussion back in 2012. He also claimed he had put falsehoods about the president’s birth to rest.
But the birther movement, which casts doubt over whether Obama is legally able to be president, incenses black Americans whose votes Trump has been trying to court.
But Trump didn’t revise his position and repeatedly questioned the validity of the document Obama released. By nearly the reverse, 61 percent to 38 percent, they said Trump was not qualified.
Trump, whose conspiracy theories about Obama’s birth helped make him deeply unpopular among African Americans, made no reference to the matter at his Miami rally.
The 44th United States president was born in Hawaii. “My hope would be that the presidential election reflects more serious issues than that”.
After his making his comments, Mr Trump invited TV networks’ pool camera – which provides footage for multiple channels – to tour his hotel in Washington.
In the morning, Clinton fired off a tweet referring to her rival as “birther-in-chief” and featuring an old clip of Trump.
Trump concluded his remarks as reporters, separated from the podium by six rows of Trump supporters attending as spectators, attempted to ask questions. “It’s fairly typical. We’ve got other things to attend to”, he said. And the Clinton campaign was quick to condemn the candidate’s remarks.
In the past Donald Trump has agreed with Joe Arpaio. “Who knows? They may have even been doing it together”. “We’re talking about something else, okay? I’ll do another book, and it will do very successfully”. “We are seeing a likely voter model that’s benefitting Trump”.
“President Obama’s successor can not and will not be the man who led the racist birther movement”. For five years, he has led the birther movement to delegitimize our first black president.
“I’ll answer that question at the right time”, Trump said. “So I don’t talk about it”.
“Despite bad marks on honesty, despite what voters perceive as a level of arrogance that puts her above the rules, voters say nearly 2-1 that Hillary Clinton is qualified to be president, and say by a wide margin that Donald Trump is not qualified”, said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac poll in Hamden, Conn. Obama, who produced the longer version of his Hawaiian birth certificate in 2011 to prove doubters wrong, had famously mocked Trump over the issue at a White House Correspondents Association dinner as the wealthy businessman sat in the audience fuming.
“As Michelle Obama said in her fabulous speech at the Democratic Convention, when we go to the polls this November, the real choice isn’t between Democrat or Republican”.
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Trump devoted more time at the beginning of the event to talking about his hotel where the event took place. “I just don’t care for anything that he says”. In reversing his stance Friday, Trump did not say why, or when, he changed his mind. “We have to keep the suspense going, OK?” “Okay? So you watch”.
