Trump said in a brief statement Friday morning that Obama was “born in the United States, period”.
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Hillary Clinton’s campaign first raised this issue to smear then-candidate Barack Obama in her very nasty, failed 2008 campaign for President.
One of my personal favorite American heroes, Mike Thornton, said that “we can not stand four more years of leadership like (Barack Obama’s), we need someone who is going to lead from the front like Donald Trump”.
On Friday, the Republican nominee for the first time publicly said Obama was born in the US. “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”.
Trump helped give birth to the “birther” movement, and in the process dealt great injury to the highest office in the land, not to mention issuing a repugnant insult to a sitting president, and the first African-American to occupy the White House.
The president added Friday that he hoped the election would focus on more serious issues, and said he “was pretty confident about where I was born”.
President Obama addressed the issue Friday, telling reporters at the White House he will not comment on the matter anymore. Most Americans want to see Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton address important topics confronting this country, including national security, economic stability, the nation’s infrastructure, and reasonable, plausible immigration reform.
In April 2011, Mr Trump challenged Mr Obama to show his birth certificate, gaining approval from Republicans including former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.
“I’ll answer that question at the right time”, Trump said. An additional 31 percent of Republicans neither agreed nor disagreed with the statement and only a quarter of Republicans surveyed believed Obama was born in the U.S. Trump, who as recently as this week has refused to say he believed Obama was born in the US, didn’t end it.
Hillary Clinton’s lead in the United States presidential race against Donald Trump is evaporating with just over 50 days to go until election day, as she stirs ever less enthusiasm in her own camp. In fact, Trump continued to stoke the fires for years after Obama released his long-form birth certificate in April 2011.
Donald Trump on Friday wondered aloud what would happen to Hillary Clinton should her Secret Service detail disarm.
“I didn’t say anything about the Holocaust”.
“These are in-your-face kind of efforts on the part of one man who is misusing the media in order to heap indignities upon the president of these United States”, the South Carolina Democrat told reporters at a hastily assembled press conference with members of the Congressional Black Caucus after Trump made his remarks.
Immediately after the event, the anchors at CNN were seething and yelled over each other to deride Trump for tricking them, even though Trump did admit he believes the president was born in America. “We can’t just accept this”, she added.
He was also still refusing to say that Mr Obama had been born in Hawaii when questioned on the issue during a Washington Post interview on Thursday.
He said the Tax Foundation’s report would answer more questions.
After talking a bit more about the veterans standing behind him – “I love leaders”, he noted at one point – he turned the microphone over to them.
First lady Michelle Obama waves during a campaign rally in support of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and vice presidential candidate, Sen.
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Clinton has called for tighter access to guns, including universal background checks, but has never said she planned to get rid of the Second Amendment.
