But as the Republican presidential nominee sought to put that false conspiracy theory to rest, he stoked another, claiming the “birther movement” was begun by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
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Donald Trump has once again insinuated that Hillary Clinton be assassinated, telling a crowd of supporters in Miami on Friday night that he thinks Clinton’s bodyguards should disarm in order to “see what happens to her”.
‘Take their guns away; let’s see what happens to her’. “It’ll be very risky”, Mr. Trump said, stocking another controversy. I think they should disarm.
Crooked Hillary wants to get rid of all guns and yet she is surrounded by bodyguards who are fully armed, Trump had reportedly written in the post.
Donald Trump said Friday he now believes President Obama was born in the United States, seeking to bury an issue he has used repeatedly the past five-and-a-half years to appeal to ultra-conservative audiences.
With criticism of his birther movement starting anew, Trump’s campaign signaled that the candidate would address the issue Friday at a Washington event.
“Clinton’s campaign relies on the exhausted tactic of smearing opponents who question her policies as racists”, Mr. Trump said at an election rally in Miami, Florida.
He added: “By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”.
Members of Clinton’s government-appointed guard detail should abandon their weapons because she wants to “destroy your Second Amendment”, he said, referring to the US Constitution’s clause that enshrines the rights of Americans to bear arms.
“President Barack Obama was born in the United States”, Trump said.
Appearing in Washington, he said Obama was born in the United States but then incorrectly suggested that the Clinton campaign had started the conspiracy theory. The Trump campaign requested it in October previous year.
“We have to keep the suspense going”, the Republican presidential nominee told Fox Business Network just hours before a campaign event at his new hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
Mr Trump toyed with the media, flagging a “major statement” at a morning press conference in the “Presidential Ballroom” of his new Washington hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, four blocks from the house he hopes to make his home for the next four years in the November 8th election.
Still, it behooves us to really look at this latest tactic from the Trump camp and recognize the inherent racism and xenophobia that made Trump’s espousal of birtherism take flight in the first place, and the narcissism and sexism that allow him to now try to pin it all on Clinton and never apologize.
Trump says he’ll “stand with the Cuban people in their fight against communist oppression”.
For Trump, it ensured that no one would immediately question what CNN’s John King called “the biggest flip-flop of the campaign”. “It’s like he thinks that it’s a game, you’re playing a TV show”, he said.
“President Barack Obama was born in the United States”.
She urged them to rally behind Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton, “particularly given the alternative”.
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This isn’t the first time Trump has been accused of inciting violence.
