Mr Trump’s comments on Friday in Miami came hours after Mr Trump finally reversed his long-held position that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
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“For five years, he has led the birther movement to delegitimize our first black president”, Clinton said on Friday, demanding that Trump apologize to Obama.
But he faulted Clinton and other Democrats for questioning his devotion to the cause of improving the lives of black residents of urban areas with “no jobs”, “the worst education” and streets so unsafe it’s impossible to walk around without “getting shot”.
“Tonight, Donald Trump once again alluded to violence against Hillary Clinton”, said Elizabeth Shappell, spokeswoman for Correct The Record, a pro-Clinton media watchdog group.
“Take their guns away, she doesn’t want guns”, he continued. There is no evidence that is true.
Saying Trump is “off his leash”, Clinton’s press secretary Brian Fallon tweeted that assassination jokes couldn’t be an idea approved by Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. “I finished it”, Trump said. “President Barack Obama was born in the United States”.
Trump had long fanned the flames of this conspiracy theory, known as “birtherism”.
Trump made a similar comment in May when he addressed a National Rifle Association conference.
Clinton’s campaign responded quickly, denouncing the comment as reckless and unsafe.
This isn’t the first time Trump has been accused of inciting violence. “He can’t just take it back”.
Trump also said the USA has a broader obligation to stand with oppressed people – a comment that seems at odds with his “America first” mantra.
Hours earlier, Mr Trump stated for the first time that the president was born in the U.S., though he did not apologise for devoting years to promoting false allegations that Mr Obama was not an American citizen. Yet the facts do not match Miller’s description of the issue.
Fairfax: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign deployed a popular surrogate on Friday to gin up enthusiasm amid young voters who could be critical to victory on November 8: Michelle Obama.
Donald Trump has, once again, sparked controversy on the campaign trail. As Trump began to make an aggressive pitch to minority voters in August, there was renewed debate over Trump’s prominent role in the birther moment.
“Who knows? Who cares right now? We’re talking about something else, OK?”
CNN and other major TV stations did not broadcast Trump’s rally as they often do, suggesting the USA media is heeding widespread criticism that it devotes too much attention to the Republican candidate.
“At the time of Mr. Blumenthal’s conversation with me, there had been a few news articles published in various outlets reporting on rumors about Obama’s birthplace. Someday I’ll write a book”.
Trump ignored questions from reporters about his switch and has yet to explain why he abandoned the “birther” stance that fueled his political fame and was viewed by critics as an attempt to delegitimize the nation’s first African-American president.
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“All of the concessions that Barack Obama has granted the Castro regime were done through executive order, which means the next president can reverse them”, he said.
