While the birther theory was pushed by some bloggers who backed Clinton’s primary campaign against Obama eight years ago, Clinton has long denounced what she’s called a “racist lie” that sought to “delegitimize America’s first black president”.
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In a statement Thursday night, his campaign communications director said Trump believes the issue is settled.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Friday said he believes President Barack Obama was born in the United States. She said Mr Trump was trying “to delegitimise our first black president”.
Hillary Clinton ripped into rival Donald Trump for declining to say President Barack Obama was born in the United States.
“President Barack Obama was born in the United States – period”, he said.
While some of Clinton’s supporters in 2008 raised questions about whether Obama was born in Africa (he was, in fact, born in Hawaii), the notion that he was ineligible to be president was most viscerally pushed by some of the Republican Party’s most conservative members. The resurfacing of Mr. Trump’s doubts about Mr. Obama’s birthplace – in an interview with The Washington Post that was published on Thursday – comes less than two months before the general election and as he has been working more aggressively to court minority voters. “And we know who Donald is”.
Here’s a collection of comments, including a wide variety of tweets, all from Donald Trump, all proving he either was lying when he claimed President Obama’s place of birth was unknown, or he’s lying now claiming he believes Obama was born in America. “We have to keep the suspense going”.
“We got other things to attend to”, Obama said. “Well I’m just overwhelmed with emotion”, Sanders told CNN’s Chris Cuomo.
Trump has gained ground on Clinton in national opinion polls after revamping his campaign staff in August and taking steps to give a more polished performance on the campaign trail. “Attempting to say it “did a great service” to the president who Trump attacked is asinine”.
Yet even if that were true, it fails to explain why Trump repeatedly made the claim for years to question the president’s legitimacy in holding the country’s highest office.
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Texas, said their Washington news conference was a calling to African-Americans – “this man can not be elected”. But Trump himself, famously averse to apologies, has balked at several opportunities to disavow his association with birtherism. It’s fairly typical. I was pretty confident about where I was born.
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Ohio Gov. John Kasich, at the the White House to discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership with Obama, was also asked about the latest Trump controversy. I think most other people were as well.
