His remarks were a clear allusion to Trump+, the outspoken Republican nominee, who has emphatically professed his readiness to work with Putin, and at one point even said the Russian strongman was much more of a leader than US President Barack Obama.
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“This kind of talk should be out of bounds for a presidential candidate, just like it should be out of bounds for a presidential candidate to peddle a conspiracy theory about the President of the United States for five years“, Mook said.
He has also claimed that Mr Obama – whose father was a Kenyan Muslim – founded the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group.
Instead, he claimed, falsely, that questions about Obama’s citizenship were initially stirred by the Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, in her unsuccessful primary contest with Obama in 2008. “By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”. Trump repeatedly questioned Obamas birth in the years after Obama released his birth certificate.
The charges helped to launch his political career, propelling him onto the national stage and winning him fans on the far right.
Trump’s allegation on Clinton starting the controversy is the latest example of his tendency to repeat statements that are patently false.
Two days after this interview, he tweets that Hillary Clinton started the birther movement.
In presidential election years, the percentage of black voters eclipsed the percentage of whites for the first time in 2012, when 66.2 percent of blacks voted, compared with 64.1 percent of non-Hispanic whites and about 48 percent of Hispanics and Asians. “His campaign was founded on this outrageous lie. Period, end of story”, she said. When will he stop this ugliness, this bigotry? she asked.
Blumenthal of Saturday told Fox News that he didn’t tell McClatchy that Obama was born in Kenya. “And Donald Trump owes him and the American people an apology”.
The Republican presidential candidate told his supporters that Clinton intends to “destroy your second amendment”.
“I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons, they should disarm”, Trump said during a rally in Miami on Friday night. “Take their, let’s see what happens to her”.
“You don’t think Hillary wants her events to be covered like this? It would be very risky”, he added. “I finished it.You know what I mean”, Mr Trump said on Friday at his newly opened luxury hotel in Washington.
Although Clinton favours some gun control measures, Trump has inaccurately suggested she wants to ban all guns.
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are set to campaign in another swing state, OH for Clinton this weekend.
Trump has been one of the leading voices in the controversy since 2011 that many view as an attempt to delegitimize the presidency of the nation’s first black president.
The president on Friday added that he hoped the election would focus on more serious issues, and that he was pretty confident about where I was born..
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Trump’s campaign said the August remarks were a call for increased Second Amendment advocacy by supporters.
