Moreover, Trump’s core statement-that Obama was born in the United States-is couched in disingenuity: Hillary Clinton did not start the birther movement, and he did not “finish” it.
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HILLARY Clinton pulled out the big guns overnight in her bid to win the White House, with Michelle Obama making her first appearance on the campaign trail for the Democratic Party nominee.
“Police are the most mistreated people in this country”, Trump said at a GOP debate in January. (?) “Barack Obama was born in the United States of America”. His campaign was founded on this outrageous lie.
“There were those who questioned and continue to question for the past eight years up through this very day whether my husband was even born in this country”, she said.
Trump then went on to deny the credibility of Obama’s released birth certificate in the years to follow. Trump also claimed to have hired investigators.
But Trump didn’t revise his position and repeatedly questioned the validity of the document Obama released.
Trump responded: “Well, a lot of people don’t agree with you and a lot of people feel it wasn’t a proper certificate”. “He’s not sure. That’s not the same as “I’m certain the president was born either in Hawaii” or ‘I’m certain that he was not, ‘” said Stone.
“I was pretty confident about where I was born”, Obama told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday.
I would hope, though, that voters will do more than that. “After five years of pushing a racist conspiracy theory into the mainstream, it was appalling to watch Trump appoint himself the judge of whether the President of the United States is American”. “Donald Trump is a disgusting fraud“.
“Who knows? Who knows?” Who cares right now?
“I’m shocked that a question like that would come up at a time when we’ve got so many other things to do-well, I’m not that shocked actually”, Obama said. Someday I’ll write a book.
A sizable number of voters agreed with Trump.
Google Trends indicates that searches for “Was Obama born in the United States?” has once again risen in September.
The saga only ended in a surreal and extraordinary moment in American politics when the sitting president went to the White House briefing room in April 2011 and produced his long-form birth certificate. Among all those who said Obama was born outside the United States, about half thought there is “solid evidence” for their view while the rest said this was only their suspicion. “This sickening display shows more than ever why Donald Trump is totally unfit be president”.
Asked in an interview with Irish TV, as reported by Buzzfeed, if he believes the president was born in the US now finally after producing his long-form birth certificate, Trump said, “Well, I don’t know – did he do it?”
“I don’t talk about it because, if I talk about that, your whole thing will be about that”, Trump said.
Earlier this month, former Republican candidate Dr. “There is no erasing it in history”, Clinton said.
Others flatly refused to believe that Trump was honest in his comments Friday.
Clinton slammed Trump’s comments to the Post while speaking at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute event in Washington Thursday, saying he needs to stop his “ugliness” and “bigotry”.
But the press conference-during which Trump answered no questions-was a freakish spectacle. You tell me. You know some people say that was not his birth certificate.
Both presidential candidates spoke at events in Washington, D.C., on Friday morning.
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The first lady ticked off a list of Trump’s controversial statements as examples of unmeasured and immature behavior. “We have to keep the suspense going. OK?”
