Trump again hinted at Hillary’s assassination.
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“President Barack Obama was born in the United States”, Trump said.
Naturally, the Donald Trump we’ve all come to know over the a year ago is unlikely to be troubled by such concerns.
And his opponent wasted no time in holding Trump accountable for his years as myth-maker. For five years, he has led the birther movement to delegitimize our first black president.
The celebrity TV star has questioned Obama’s United States citizenship – a legal prerequisite for becoming president – since at least 2011. There was his declaration that the father of US Senator Ted Cruz, one of Trump’s many rivals for the Republican nomination, might have been linked to the assassin of President John F Kennedy.
Aides say the tightening polls have validated the new approach in Trump’s eyes.
Trump has often cited the country as a model of a failed state, warning that if Clinton is elected, she’ll turn the USA into Venezuela.
“Hillary Clinton in her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy”.
“What these candidates are trying to convince the voters of is, ‘I’m not as bad as the other one, ‘” said Neil Newhouse, a Republican pollster.
Those remarks were widely interpreted as an invitation for gun-rights supporters to take matters into their own hands should Mrs. Clinton prevail in November’s election.
Blumenthal, who worked in the White House with President Bill Clinton and later was employed by the Clinton Foundation, could not be reached Friday but said in an email to The Boston Globe, “This is false”.
Trump’s role as chief promoter of the conspiracy theory about the nation’s first black president has left him with nearly no support among African-Americans and has turned off moderates who bristle at its racist undertones. Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign, said the narrowing appears to be more a reflection of Clinton’s troubles than a sign that Trump is improving his standing with the public. “His campaign was founded on this outrageous lie”. “There is no erasing it in history”.
First Lady Michelle Obama also criticised Trump during her 2016 campaign debut Friday, saying the choice for voters is “excruciatingly clear” between Clinton and a candidate who “traffics in prejudice, fear and lies”.
“An “extremely credible source” has called my office and told me that @BarackObama’s birth certificate is a fraud”, he wrote. On Friday, Obama was asked for his reaction to the latest Trump declaration. Well, I’m not that shocked actually. “Now we all want to get back to making America strong and great again”, he said. “I was pretty confident about where I was born”.
Trump was the most prominent proponent of the “birther” idea, using it to build his political profile and his conservative credentials. This is not a reality TV show. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know, ‘ Trump said. “Of course she does”, Kofinis said.
‘I think her bodyguards should drop all weapons, disarm immediately, ‘ Mr Trump said.
Mr. Trump’s comments were a provocative echo of widely condemned remarks he made in early August at a campaign rally in Wilmington, N.C. There, he airily suggested that gun rights supporters should rise up against Mrs. Clinton if she were elected to stop her from appointing judges who might favor stricter gun regulation.
Trump’s campaign said Thursday night that he does believe Obama was born in the United States.
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It’s an issue even the president took a moment to address on Friday. Trump devoted more time at the beginning of the event to talking about his hotel where the event took place. Only then did Trump make a brief statement about Obama’s birth. He ignored reporters’ shouted questions.
