She added that Trump’s relentless pursuit of the issue, which the GOP nominee now says is untrue, did help Trump appeal to the so-called Alt-Right wing of the Republican Party, a group that would eventually become a strong part of his base. “Take their guns away, let’s see what happens to her”.
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That was largely translated as a veiled call to the country’s gun owners to take up arms in the event of a Clinton win in November. “It’ll be very unsafe”, Mr. Trump said, stocking another controversy. “She doesn’t want guns”, he said. “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know”, Trump said during a rally in North Carolina in August.
‘By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. “Disarm immediately. Take their guns away, let’s see what happens to her”, Mr. Trump said at an election rally in Miami, Florida. She has said she wants to protect gun rights, but does support expanded background checks and allowing the families of gun violence victims to sue gun manufacturers. I finished it, you know what I mean.
But later Thursday night – after his comment took off in the media – Trump’s campaign released a statement saying: “Having successfully obtained President Obama’s birth certificate when others could not, Mr. Trump believes that President Obama was born in the United States”.
A spokeswoman for the Secret Service declined to comment. “This sickening display shows more than ever why Donald Trump is totally unfit be president”.
Donald Trump used a short statement at the end of a freaky campaign event to attempt to separate himself from the so-called birther movement questioning President Barack Obama’s citizenship, of which he had always been the most prominent champion.
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At another point, Mr Trump bragged that he often does multiple campaign events a day.
“This kind of talk should be out of bounds for a presidential candidate”, Mook said.
“While they waited, and waited, Trump provided what amounted to a campaign infomercial and shamelessly promoted his new Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington”, the daily said.
Though she has not yet been a frequent presence on the 2016 campaign trail, Michelle Obama has proven to be an especially powerful advocate for Clinton, her husband’s one-time rival.
In 2011, Trump began fanning the birther conspiracy flames on television, saying this to Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly: “People have birth certificates”.
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It was a spectacle that exemplified all the most extraordinary aspects of Trump’s unorthodox candidacy: his ability to game the media, his embrace of conspiracy theories, and his pattern of repeating fallacies, even in the face of contradicting facts.
