Donald Trump on Friday wondered aloud what would happen to Hillary Clinton should her Secret Service detail disarm. She called on the Republican to apologise to the president.
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FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, wrote of Clinton and the “birther” movement past year, “While it’s true that some of her ardent supporters pushed the theory, there is no evidence that Clinton or her campaign had anything to do with it”.
“I finished it”, Trump said during an event in Washington DC.
By repeatedly posting nasty comments on Twitter and demanding to see Obama’s birth certificate, Trump successfully turned a large population of people against the president.
“Most of the talk started after Clinton suspended her presidential campaign”, PolitiFact said.
Obama’s speech came as the Clinton campaign deployed high-profile surrogates to key battleground states amid the Democratic presidential nominee’s sinking poll numbers. “We live in a country where a biracial kid from Hawaii named Barack Obama, the son of a single mother, can become president”, Obama said, citing the ability for immigrants to come to the U.S. and achieve economic success. Indeed, the Congressional Black Congress (CBC) soonafter held a press conference in Washington to denounce Trump’s efforts to deflect from his primary role in attempting to tarnish the first African-American president.
Why? Because back when Trump was considering a run for president in 2011 and when he was in the political spotlight in 2012, he was constantly talking about Obama’s birth certificate.
Trump was addressing a crowd in Miami, (falsely) claiming that Clinton wanted to “destroy” the Second Amendment.
In the morning, Clinton fired off a tweet referring to her rival as “birther-in-chief” and featuring an old clip of Trump.
“Donald Trump is unfit to be president”, Clinton said. Rep. G.K. Butterfield said Trump was a “disgusting fraud” while Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said Trump was “a two-bit racial arsonist”.
“There is no new Donald Trump”. “He doesn’t believe the things he’s forced to say now in order to curry favor with people who are never, never going to support him”, said Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey.
Trump also reminded potential voters of his embrace of a baseless theory that is widely seen as a thinly-veiled appeal to racists, and he tried to spread a new and false rumor – saying it was Hillary Clinton who started birtherism. Think about how risky that is.
Mr Obama himself reacted with scorn when asked about Mr Trump’s admission in a brief exchange with reporters in the Oval Office. Imagine someone who distorts the truth to fit a very narrow view of the world.
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“Listen to this: right now we have an opportunity to elect one of the most qualified people who has ever endeavored to become president”.
