He made the three-line statement at an event staged for veterans at his recently opened Washington, D.C. hotel, following weeks of declining to tell reporters that he believed President Obama was a USA citizen by birth.
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The president added Friday that he hoped the election would focus on more serious issues, and said he “was pretty confident about where I was born”.
“It is so hard to believe that it is less than two months until election and that my family is nearly at the end of term”, she said.
Yes, Hillary Clinton has her own issues with the truth and transparency, for which we’ve criticized her regularly in this space.
Speaking at George Mason University in Virginia, Obama described the election as a choice between “one of the most qualified people who has ever endeavored to become president” and someone who did not “take the job seriously”.
And then he manipulated the media on Friday into live coverage of the renunciation of his lie, even as he preposterously took credit for resolving the matter.
In 2012, the NY businessman turned presidential candidate wrote on Twitter that Obama’s birth certificate was “a fraud”. “No, there is nothing to base that on – as far as I know”.
In what counts as the latest episode in the soap opera of ridiculousness that the presidential campaign has too often devolved into, the Republican candidate admitted Friday that he was now convinced that Obama was a USA citizen, after years of stating otherwise.
“No”, Obama said, waving her hand.
“It was such an enormous distraction that after years of having served as president, the president actually went to the state of Hawaii and said ‘you know what, release my long-form birth certificate, demonstrate I really am an American citizen, ‘” Montclair State University Political Science Professor Brigid Harrison said.
But we should be accustomed by now to Donald Trump saying things that aren’t true. “Now, we want to get back to making America strong and great again”.
Trump, who has the endorsement of the National Rifle Association, eventually took to Twitter to say the Secret Service had not contacted him about the remarks.
“Barack Obama was born in America plain and simple and Donald Trump owes him and the American people an apology”.
Though she’s not yet in Congress, former Orlando police Chief Val Demings stood beside members of the Congressional Black Caucus as they denounced Donald Trump in Washington on Friday.
“I’ll answer that question at the right time”, he said.
In 2011, Obama produced his birth certificate – showing he was born at the Kapiolani Medical Center in Hawaii on August 4, 1961 – to put an end to the allegations.
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Trump Jr. said his father views this as a distraction from more substantive issues in the campaign. “I don’t want to answer it yet”.
