“Obama was born in the United States”. Trump himself declined to say earlier Friday whether he believes Obama was born in the USA, teasing a forthcoming “major statement” on the matter.
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Trump was the nation’s most prominent birther, which helped fuel his political rise. “After five years of pushing a racist conspiracy theory into the mainstream, it was appalling to watch Trump appoint himself the judge of whether the President of the United States is American”, Mook continued.
“Mr. Trump did a great service to the president and the country by bringing closure to the issue that Hillary Clinton and her team first raised”, he added.
The claim that Clinton or her campaign was responsible in 2008 for the rise of the so-called “birther movement” has long since been debunked, and no credible person subscribes to that specious yarn. “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know”.
The world is a more unsafe place because of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. “I think most people were, as well, and my hope would be that the presidential election reflects more serious issues than that”.
Trump’s meaning was not immediately clear and a campaign spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for an elaboration.
“I was pretty confident about where I was born”, the president said. Obama made the comment before a meeting to discuss free trade.
Donald Trump’s campaign on Thursday said he believes President Barack Obama was born in the U.S., a major reversal from a line of attack he launched five years ago.
Clinton herself took to Twitter to attack Trump for his birther history, calling it “racist”, but didn’t address Trump’s claim that she began the birther issue.
But it is worth noting Trump later tweeted a similar statement – even after acknowledging the shootings of police officers in Texas and Pennsylvania. An additional 31 percent of Republicans neither agreed nor disagreed with the statement and only a quarter of Republicans surveyed believed Obama was born in the U.S.
“Clinton’s remarks can be seen as elitist and classist, and that is the result of the hyperbole she used in her comments”, Dan Mahaffee, an analyst with the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, said Friday.
In an interview with NPR’s Morning Edition that aired Friday, Virginia Sen.
Trump is a closer.
Kaine said that taught him to never “tolerate somebody just using a broad brush to trash somebody due to their national origin”.
“I’m dividing America?” Cuomo asked.
He said of enhanced border security: “of course you need to do it”.
After President Obama released his long form birth certificate “or whatever it was”, as Donald Trump put it, Trump refused to accept that Obama had proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was born here. “The TV pool traditionally doesn’t participate in events that our reporters or producers are not allowed to attend”, said Bryan Boughton, Fox News Washington bureau chief and current chairman of the TV pool. “I want to focus on other things”.
He then stepped away without taking questions. “That’s the way it worked out”. The ending never changes in a Donald Trump story.
“Today I’m very proud of myself because I’ve accomplished something that nobody else was able to accomplish”, Trump said in New Hampshire, after Obama’s news conference.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Friday slammed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s dabbling in conspiracies about President Obama’s birthplace, with Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) declaring the November election a “referendum on bigotry”. “But once younger voters realize that anything but a vote for Clinton is a vote for Trump, the numbers will settle and the artificially high Gary Johnson numbers will come back to earth”.
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Kaine said Thursday that Clinton has a duty to draw attention to the messages of some Trump supporters.
