Not only was this a reminder of Trump’s years of spreading the lie that Barack Obama might have been born in another country and was thus ineligible to be president, it was also a slap in the face to anyone who wanted him to answer for that lie.
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One, Trump has more die-hard supporters than Clinton, but without minority and swing voters, Trump can not win only with his supporters, especially since many key GOP leaders say they will not vote for him.
‘Take their guns away, OK?
Trump also claimed, falsely, that Hillary Clinton – “her campaign in 2008 started the birther controversy. OK, it would be very risky”.
Donald Trump put an exclamation mark on the birther controversy, pinning it on his political opponent despite cries from some that Trump himself started it all.
Asked in the Oval Office about the renewed birther controversy Friday, President Obama gave the question short shrift, making a dig at the United States media and its obsessive coverage of Trump.
Bernie Sanders and Michelle Obama are hitting the campaign trail, urging young voters to vote for Hillary Clinton and keep Donald Trump out of the White House. He seemed to call Clinton out for hypocrisy later, adding, “Crooked Hillary wants to get rid of all guns and yet she is surrounded by bodyguards who are fully armed. My hope would be that the presidential election reflects more serious issues than that”.
So this is how Trump tries to change the subject when he’s caught lying.
For years, Trump has been the most prominent proponent of the “birther” idea.
While Clinton has spoken in favor of greater gun control measures, she has repeatedly said she does not favor a repeal of the Second Amendment.
“President Barack Obama was born in the U.S. Period”, said Trump on Friday morning.
Trump had always been the most prominent “birther”, the name given to those who propagated the false claim that Obama was born outside of the country. “They should disarm immediately”.
Donald Trump in 2011 speaking to reporters in New Hampshire after President Obama released his long-form birth certificate.
“Let me say this”, she said. Never mind its inaccuracy – it was irrelevant, too: Obama was eligible to be president wherever he was born, because his mother was from Kansas. Imagine a person who looks at someone who doesn’t look like him, and thinks that person is not an American.
With the race now in a statistical tie, Clinton is reiterating how critical this final stretch of the campaign will be.
But there’s not only no truth to that statement – and a bombastic one released from his campaign Thursday night stating the same thing – there’s evidence that as late as 2014 Trump was continuing to cast doubt that Obama was born in the U.S.
LISA DESJARDINS: When the White House made the president’s birth certificate public two weeks later, Trump questioned if the document was real.
“This is a disgusting day”, said Chairman G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.). “He was asked one more time where was President Obama born and he still wouldn’t say Hawaii”.
“This kind of talk should be out of bounds for a presidential candidate”.
The comment marks yet another reversal for the GOP candidate, who previously said he supported the idea of normalized relations, but wished the USA had negotiated a better deal.
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Trump has often cited the country as a model of a failed state, warning that if Clinton is elected, she’ll turn the USA into Venezuela.
