On ABC’s This Week, Governor Mike Pence also berated the media for focusing on birtherism days after he says Trump “brought the issue to an end this week”.
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He also declared birtherism “over” and denied Trump has any responsibility it.
“It wasn’t like he was talking about it on a regular basis until then”, he added, referring to Trump’s announcement on Friday.
A totally fair situation considering they continue to falsely claim Hillary Clinton started the birther rumors in 2008, constantly give Trump himself credit for “ending” the birther conspiracy by getting Obama to release his birth certificate in 2011, and lying about Trump not pushing the lie after 2011. “I’ve said it’s a done issue for a long time, and Donald Trump has said it’s a done issue now”, Christie said.
Again, Trump didn’t formally come out and say he believes Obama was born in the United States until Friday, and even that statement was filled with multiple lies. “And when the issue was raised, he made very clear the other day what his position is”, Christie said. Trump repeatedly questioned the validity of the document in 2011, and in August 2012, he tweeted that “an “extremely credible source” has called my office and told me that @BarackObama’s birth certificate is a fraud”. On the campaign trail, he repeatedly suggested that the president might not be Christian or that he might sympathize with Islamic State militants.
Tim Kaine, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, blamed Trump for “an incredibly painful five-year chapter”.
“It is true”, the CNN host said. “Let’s talk about Donald Trump”, Kaine said. Christie pointed to comments by Patti Solis Doyle, Clinton’s 2008 campaign chief.
“I think it’s important to know the facts about any incident like this”, Clinton told reporters aboard her campaign’s jet after landing in Westchester County on Saturday evening.
“Sidney Blumenthal has categorically denied that, but Sidney’s not running for president”.
Cuomo said there was no indication of global terror in the NY bombing, but agreed with Christie, saying, “a bomb going off is generically a terrorist activity”.
“And he either believed what he said for five years, which showed that he’s either incredibly gullible or conspiratorial, or he didn’t believe it, in which case he was just trying to prey upon people’s darkest emotion”, he said.
Sure seems like Trump wasn’t exactly convinced. And so as I said, we have some promising leads.
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To that, Raddatz said, “It’s not over”.
