United States Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sparked fresh controversy late on Friday after he appeared to refer to the potential assassination of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for the second time.
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“President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period”, Trump declared, enunciating each word in a brief statement at the end of a campaign appearance.
“He is reckless, irresponsible and unworthy of the office he seeks”.
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After claiming that opponent Hillary Clinton had started the birther discussion, a false claim for which he offered no evidence, Trump took credit for ending it. “It’ll be very risky”, he continued.
Giffords survived a gunshot wound to the head in 2011 when a gunman opened fire while she was meeting with a group of constituents in Tucson. For comparison, at its height, roughly nine in 10 said they had heard a lot or some about Clinton’s use of a private email server while serving as Secretary of State and when Republicans made it a major campaign issue past year during the Benghazi hearings. “I finished it”, Trump said. I’m also aware that in the larger sense there is no real comparison between Clinton’s serious, inclusive, fact-based campaign and Trump’s noxious stew of bigotry, resentment and juvenile fantasy.
Friday marked the first time he said in no uncertain terms Obama was US born, but he left without taking questions and did not explain how or when he’d come to that conclusion.
A Secret Service spokeswoman contacted by the Associated Press declined to comment.
“And that is especially true for young people like all of you”, she said, noting that voters under the age of 30 provided the margin of victory for Obama in the swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and Virginia in 2012.
I understand that many Americans think that Clinton’s health in particular has become a political issue and to a certain degree Trump’s has not been covered with the same level of intensity.
Meanwhile, Trump campaign prevented editorial access to his tour of the hotel. “Disarm immediately”, Trump said.
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.
The CPD said the same measures will be used to determine which candidates are invited to the next presidential debates, scheduled for October 9 in St. Louis and October 19 in Las Vegas.
Mr Trump says he will “stand with the Cuban people in their fight against communist oppression”.
“Donald Trump is a disgusting fraud”, said Representative G.K. Butterfield, a Democrat from North Carolina and chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus.
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. “But the people are great”.
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Trump has often cited the country as a model of a failed state, warning that if Clinton is elected, she’ll turn the US into Venezuela.
