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Hillary backers pushed Obama ‘birther’ story in 2008

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Gates sizes up both candidates: “Neither candidate has seriously addressed how he or she thinks about the military or the use of force”, former Defense Secretary Bob Gates wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Friday. His critics fear that his norm-breaking campaign portends a political future in which candidates pay no penalty for telling untruths, disregarding the public’s right to know, and lobbing racially charged accusations.

In a January interview with Tapper’s colleague Wolf Blitzer, Trump said he’d reveal his “theory” on Obama’s birthplace in a book. “He’s a mess, okay, he’s a mess. Look what we have, look at the Middle East”.

President Barack Obama on Sunday praised Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for her intellect, fortitude and “unerring” judgment and blasted “the other guy”, Republican Donald Trump, on his NY home turf as unqualified to be president and uninterested in learning enough to make the hard decisions the job requires. The first African-American U.S. president then told the group of donors why he thought a woman had never held the office. The issue is almost certain to come up during Trump and Clinton’s first debate, September 26.

In one of his harshest critiques of Mr Trump yet, Obama referred to the Republican presidential candidate as “somebody who has fought against civil rights and fought against equality and who has shown no regard for working people most of his life”.

Her campaign has also be dragged down by emails that suggest staffers at her family’s Clinton Foundation were seeking favors at the Clinton-run State Department for high-dollar donors and Clinton saying in recent days that half of Trump supporters are “deplorables”. “The whole idea that they were trying to make Pence call me names, basically, and he didn’t bite on that was a real positive thing for all of us”, Duke said on his daily podcast.

“For five years, he has led the “birther” movement to delegitimize our first black president”, Clinton said on Friday before Trump’s admission. “You know, I’d like to punch the guy in the face”, Kaine said. “I mean, that’s a boost for me in the home stretch”.

Mr Trump arriving in Colorado for a campaign rally on Saturday. Get the best stories from The Good Men Project delivered straight to your inbox, here. The woman, Ghazala Khan, stood silently on the Democratic National Convention stage while her husband attacked Trump.

Last night, she released a statement saying she strongly condemns the “apparent terrorist attacks” in Minnesota, New Jersey and NY, referring also to a mass stabbing in St. Cloud, Minn., and a pipe bomb blast at a Marine Corps charity race route in Seaside Heights, N.J.

“Nice hotel”, said the Republican nominee for president, delighting in his newest property and the opportunity to plug it for free on live television. “America has faced threats before, and our resilience in the face of them only makes us stronger”.

“I was pretty confident about where I was born… Maybe not!” Trump tweeted. Barnett has worked with Clinton’s debate prep team for years and has been studying up on Pence, the more restrained personality on the Republican ticket.

“It was used as a smear against Senator Obama by Clinton campaign associates, and by the way, not a bunch of summer interns who just got it all wrong and were a little bit too ambitious”, Conway told NBC’s “Meet the Press”. “I don’t think so”.

“Trump would be wise to take advantage of it”, Williams said of Clinton’s comment, “but he can not miss an opportunity to criticize people like David Duke who support his candidacy”. “It would be very unsafe”.

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“This is not what the American people are talking about”, Pence said, calling it a “sidebar debate” Trump is no longer interested in having.

President Barack Obama arrives in New York for a Democratic Party fundraising event