“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy”, Trump said on Friday.
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“I think her bodyguards should drop all weapons”, said Trump. “I think they should disarm immediately”.
Martha Raddatz said,”Let’s see what happens to her’, the message sounds like a threat or encouraging violence”.
Trump’s comments recalled widely condemned remarks he delivered at an August rally in North Carolina while talking about Clinton and guns: “If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”. Let’s see what happens to her. “Okay, it would be very risky”.
“President Barack Obama was born in the United States”. Imagine a person in the Oval Office who traffics in conspiracy theories and refuses to let them go, no matter what the facts are.
After Trump concluded his speech, his campaign sent out a news release with his remarks, highlighting his comments about Cuba and Venezuela – but misspelling the latter “Venezuala”. “Trump looks at President Obama after eight years as our president, he still doesnt see him as an American”, she said.
Mr Trump had just completed a few days of relative discipline – he resisted the temptation, for instance, to denigrate Ms Clinton for taking days off the trail to recover from pneumonia – that many observers had put down to the influence of his new campaign chief, Kellyanne Conway.
47 percent of responders in those states think Clinton could handle the job of president “day-to-day”, while 39 percent say the same thing about Trump.
PENCE: Well, I know there’s news reports that trace this birther movement all the way back to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2008.
And yet Trump continues to make ridiculous comments like that again, and again, and again.
Kaine, a Democratic senator from Virginia, said Trump “is using language that is an incitement to violence or an encouragement of violence. or at least is being kind of cavalier and reckless about violence”.
But it has not stopped Mr Trump returning to the theme, appearing to accuse his rival of not understanding the value of armed protection.
Taking to the stump in Fairfax, Virginia, on Friday in her first solo campaign appearance for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Obama hit the crowd with a question that proved to be more than enticing – for Republicans. “Now it’s time for our country to show who we are and reject his divisive vision”.
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Trump’s comment, which came as he criticised Clinton over gun rights, was not the first time he has called for Clinton’s Secret Service detail to “disarm”.
