Donald Trump hit Hillary Clinton on Second Amendment rights during a Miami rally Friday night, but made a controversial statement while doing so – suggesting her Secret Service detail should stop carrying guns and “see what happens to her”.
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Mr Trump said at a campaign event in Washington: “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period”. Trump said in a CNN interview. Devoting only about 30 seconds to the subject, Trump did not apologise and did not expand upon his abrupt decision to shift from a stance he held for five years.
Obama and his allies have repeatedly said they have never had any doubt about where the president was born.
There is no evidence to link Mrs Clinton to the birther conspiracy. Will we have to wait until Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders have taken the place of Hillary Clinton on the ticket following her funeral? “Most of this, of course, is a distraction from Hillary’s health problems”. “Because every speech I talk about it, and I have tens of thousands of people showing up to these speeches and they are on television… and I will tell you that everybody is talking about the dishonesty, the total dishonesty of some of the papers and the media generally”.
While the question of Obama’s birthplace was pushed by some bloggers who backed Clinton’s primary campaign against him eight years ago, Clinton has long denounced it as a “racist lie”.
With the race now in a statistical tie, Clinton is reiterating how critical this final stretch of the campaign will be.
The national September 9-15 tracking poll showed that 42 percent of likely voters supported Clinton while 38 percent backed Trump.
Hillary Clinton speaks at the Black Women’s Agenda 39th Annual Symposium as she recover from pneumonia.
Both Clinton and Trump are protected by armed US Secret Service agents. But I’ll tell you what. Well, I’m not that shocked actually. We know she gets a lot of bad press. “I was pretty confident about where I was born”, he said. This is not a reality TV show.
The New York businessman led the birther movement aimed at Obama, who was born in Hawaii to an American mother and a Kenyan father. “I think it’s fine”, he said in September of previous year. “Am I – is that right?” Clinton used the address to rattle off a long list of policy promises and sketch what she called a more positive view of the country’s future, but the biggest applause came when she attacked Trump.
The Republican nominee also shifted his policy on Cuba Friday, telling the Miami crowd that cheered when he asked how many of them were Cuban that he would reverse Obama’s orders on Cuba “unless the Castro regime meets our demands”.
And during a campaign event in January, Trump himself claimed he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters”.
Her statement that she would bring 186,740 new jobs to Wisconsin while Trump would cost the state 61,050 jobs was rated half-true.
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“He got a live event broadcast for some 20 minutes”, King said. Beginning in 2011, Trump tried to drum up publicity for his own possible run for the White House by loudly questioning Obama’s qualifications for office.
