“While they waited, and waited, Trump provided what amounted to a campaign infomercial and shamelessly promoted his new Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington”, the daily said.
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But that announcement wasn’t without anticipation.
The claim is a conspiracy theory that Mr Obama was actually born in Kenya and is therefore ineligible to be president. “We have to keep the suspense going, OK?” Kate Bolduan said. “Donald Trump from 2011, he made this his signature issue”.
One by one, outraged members of the CBC denounced the Republican presidential nominee who for five years was the chief promoter of the false notion that Obama was born somewhere other than Hawaii.
He’s been dodging the question for the entire 2016 campaign, although he used to go on insane tweet rants and even made a video statement offering Obama $5 million to produce his paperwork in 2011.
Donald Trump announced he now believes President Obama was born in the United States after years of saying otherwise.
He didn’t really say why.
“I’ll answer that question at the right time”, he told the newspaper.
But Mr Trump also falsely accused the Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s team of starting the so-called “birther” campaign in 2008. “Barack Obama was born in America, plain and simple”.
In the past Donald Trump has agreed with Joe Arpaio.
Mark Lamont Hill about lost his mind complaining how short Trump’s declaration was and called the statement “repugnant”.
“Imagine a person in the Oval Office who traffics in conspiracy theories – who distorts the truth to fit a very narrow view of the world”.
Earlier in the week, Trump aides suggested that Friday’s event would be a news conference; the description was later changed to “campaign event”, and Trump did not take questions.
“I am shocked that a question like that would come up at a time when we have so many other things to do”, he said, before adding “Well I am not that shocked”. “I just don’t want to answer it yet”, Trump told the newspaper.
“His campaign was founded on this outrageous lie”.
“I used to be a part of the media, and I know how the media can be misused”, he said, referring to the weekly newspaper he used to own in Charleston.
Mr Trump has recovered ground against Clinton in recent national opinion polls after revamping his campaign staff in August and taking steps to give a more polished performance on the campaign trail.
Trump has, of course, been one of the most famous and persistent proponents of the lie that President Obama was secretly born outside the United States.
While Miller’s statement suggested that Trump has believed the president was born in the United States since seeing his birth certificate, the candidate has repeatedly stoked the issue in the years since. “There is no erasing it in history”, Clinton said.
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With just 10 words on Friday morning, Donald Trump aimed to reverse his long-held position on President Obama’s birthplace after years of skepticism and questioning. “I was pretty candid about where I was born”.
