On Friday, GOP nominee Donald Trump acknowledged that President Obama was in fact born in the United States, after years of pushing the “birther” theory, that Obama is not a native-born American citizen. Yeah. Take their guns away.
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He told supporters his rival wanted to “destroy the second amendment” – referring to the right to own guns.
First Lady Michelle Obama, in a rare appearance on the campaign trail to plead with young voters to support Mrs Clinton, issued a cutting critique of Mr Trump as an unserious and dangerously unprepared candidate for president. “I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons, they should disarm, right?” I think that her bodyguards should disarm, right? Take their – and let’s see what happens to her. Take their guns away. “It’ll be very unsafe”.
Trump made similar remarks in August when he suggested that “Second Amendment people” should use their guns to prevent Clinton from taking them away. Trump said that “Clinton lives behind gates and walls and guards” and that working-class families “just want a fraction of the security enjoyed by our politicians and certainly enjoyed by her”. “I finished it”, Trump declared Friday in a brief statement at the end of a televised campaign appearance in which he touted his new hotel and his endorsements from military veterans.
Robert Gates, who served as defence secretary under both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, said Mr Trump was “unqualified and unfit to be commander- in-chief”.
On that occasion, the Clinton campaign responded within minutes, with Mr Mook saying: “A person seeking to be the president of the United States should not suggest violence in any way”.
The billionaire accused his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton of starting the controversy surrounding the president’s birthplace in her 2008 campaign when she and Obama were rivals. It’s fairly typical. I was pretty confident about where I was born.
On Friday, Trump ignored reporters’ questions about his abrupt change in stance this week over the place of President Obama’s birth.
Mr Trump toyed with the media, flagging a “major statement” at a morning press conference in the “Presidential Ballroom” of his new Washington hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, four blocks from the house he hopes to make his home for the next four years in the November 8th election.
He’ll “stand with the Cuban people in their fight against communist oppression”, he said. 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.
Among those, he said, would be religious and political freedom for the Cuban people and the freeing of all political prisoners. “We’ve expressed it differently, but you have to call out these dark emotions because if you let them pass, you actually can let them grow”, Kaine said.
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He added, “And they’re very happy”.
