President Obama had a few laughs at Donald Trump’s expense on Saturday night, joking about how happy he was that the whole question of whether he was actually born in the United States has been put to rest. We’re not taking people’s guns away. “Take their guns away, she doesn’t want guns”.
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The birther issue was brought up by Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning.
Obama responded to Trump’s confirmation of his birthplace by saying, “In other breaking news, the world is round, not flat”.
Last August at a campaign event in North Carolina, Trump voiced what sounded like a veiled threat when he accused his Democratic rival of wanting to “abolish” the Second Amendment, but suggested that “maybe” those who defend the right to bear arms could do something about that.
Obama was referring to Trump’s admission this week that the president was born in the United States.
While campaigning in South Florida, which has a large Cuban-American population, Mr Trump said if he is elected president, he will reverse Mr Obama’s efforts to normalise relations with Cuba – unless the country abides by certain “demands”.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Trump’s running mate, said on ABC’s “This Week” that the “birther” movement can be traced “all the way back to Hillary Clinton’s campaign … the facts speak for themselves”.
“It has tightened up because I think, Martha, as you know, even with your discussions with voters, we are a divided nation”, he said.
He said it would be a “personal insult” to his legacy if black voters did not turn out on Election Day for Hillary Clinton.
“It was a contentious issue, and – by the way – an issue that Patti Solis Doyle of the Clinton campaign of 2008 has recently admitted was an issue that Mrs. Clinton also injected into her campaign in 2008 in a very quiet but direct way against then-Senator Obama”, Christie said. “But there’s just been decades of dishonesty flowing out from the Clintons”, Pence said.
“If we are all deplorables, we are doing something right”, said Wilkerson, referencing Clinton’s recent remark that half of Trump supporters are a “basket of deplorables”. “I wouldn’t use it”.
Clinton, speaking before Obama delivered his final keynote address to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, did not mention Trump by name but showered the president with praise and said the upcoming election would be a pivotal choice for the country. “When you look at a series of these comments that he’s making, I do believe it is an incitement or at a minimum an expression of indifference to whether violence would occur”.
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“You may have heard Hillary’s opponent in this election say that there’s never been a worse time in America to be a black person”, Obama said on Saturday.
