“Period”, said Trump, who spent much of his time at the beginning of the event praising his “nice hotel”.
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Members of Clinton’s government-appointed guard detail should abandon their weapons because she wants to “destroy your Second Amendment”, he said, referring to the US Constitution’s clause that enshrines the rights of Americans to bear arms.
“The president should come clean”, Trump said on Irish television in 2014, a clip unearthed by BuzzFeed late Thursday, refusing to accept that Obama’s Hawaii birth certificate was genuine proof.
“When you’re making life-and-death, war-and-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off”, Mrs. Obama said at George Mason University, near Washington, where young people packed the student center and watched from balconies hung with red, white and blue bunting. And that he did. Clinton drove the point home later in the day when she tweeted, “The birther lie is what turned Trump from an ordinary reality TV star into a political figure”.
“I was involved in those conversations”, Trump Jr. told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on “Good Morning America”.
Trump had for years promoted the birther movement against Obama, who was born in Hawaii to an American mother and a Kenyan father.
And for the majority of his campaign, Trump was a part of that group. I finished it. I finished it.
The businessman offered no apology or expressed no regret for his past claims. Representatives from the Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment about the news conference. She urged them to rally behind Hillary Clinton, “particularly given the alternative”. “Whether we took whatever advice was in that memorandum, it is clear by the campaign that we ran that we did not use it at that time”, she said. On Thursday night, Trump spokesman Jason Miller put out a statement saying that Trump believes Obama was born in this country, though it was still not Trump himself saying the words. The journalists who reported the story, Byron Tau and Ben Smith, told Factcheck.org that the rumor came from Clinton’s supporters, and they had not ever found a link to her campaign.
The Clinton Campaign slammed Mr. Trump for such a remark, saying the real estate tycoon has a pattern of inciting people to violence.
“For five years, he has led the birther movement to delegitimize our first black president”, Clinton said on Friday, demanding that Trump apologize to Obama. “His campaign was founded on this outrageous lie”, Clinton said Friday. “There is no erasing it in history”, said Clinton at the symposium.
Trump announced that if President Obama would meet Donald Trump’s demands and assure the conspiracy artist that Obama was indeed born here, Donald Trump would give a $5 million check to the charity of Obama’s choosing.
The crowd at the Trump International Hotel included several Gold Star families, veterans, national security experts, and military officials. “There never will be”.
Over the course of five years, Trump has propelled the conspiracy theory that Obama was not born in this country and called on the president to release his long-form birth certificate in 2011.
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The unfounded claims were a launchpad for Trump’s political career, propelling him onto the national stage and winning him fans on the far right.
