The governor, who also serves as the chairman of Trump’s transition team, said the Democratic nominee’s criticism was inappropriate but not unexpected.
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“If you think that anyone is going to vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, or against either one of them based upon this issue, then I think there’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the concerns of the American people”, Christie said.
The president released his short-form birth certificate in June 2008, and released certified copies of his original Certificate of Live Birth, or “long-form birth certificate” in April 2011.
At a rally in Colorado Springs, Trump informed the crowd about the blast. He made this statement while deflecting a question about his birther comments that left in doubt his own position of whether the president was a natural-born USA citizen: “Well, I don’t like talking about it anymore because, honestly, I have my own feelings”.
“I think these candidates are being treated very differently on this very issue, because this is something Hillary Clinton’s campaign started when it was convenient for her, but the media covers it as if it is only Donald Trump who has taken the campaign in this direction”, Castellanos said, and when the panel protested, he went on: “I think the big question about Obama is not where he was born or his faith”.
We thought it was a dead issue – the birthplace of President Barack Obama.
“It was a contentious issue, and by the way, an issue that Patti Solis Doyle, of the Clinton campaign in 2008 had recently admitted Mrs. Clinton also injected into her campaign in 2008 in a very quiet but direct way against then-Sen”.
Solis Doyle said on Twitter afterward: “Never said it and HRC NEVER did it”.
“It just happened”, Trump continued. “We are going to be looking at that and plenty of other things”. But Trump said “her bodyguards should drop all weapons” and “disarm immediately”. That’s not what she said.
Kaine, a senator from Virginia and Clinton’s running mate, told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace that Trump was trying to incite violence with his comments.
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“You don’t want to jump to conclusions and you don’t want to put information out there that you don’t know is absolutely true”, he said, though he defended Donald Trump against criticism he called the incident in NY a “bomb” too soon and before law enforcement officials did so. “And that’s what his point is on the Second Amendment”. “We’ve seen that over and over again”. And Donald Trump has said it’s a done issue now.
