At a rally in OH on Wednesday night, Donald Trump, momentarily off the leash he’s been on since his campaign shake-up, directed a tasteless remark at Hillary Clinton, saying that she likely wouldn’t be “able to stand up” onstage for an hour and deliver a speech. “There is no erasing it in history”.
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“It’s a insane time we live in, you know, when people think there’s something unusual about getting the flu”.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump talks about avoiding illness despite a grueling campaign schedule and why he prefers fast food on the road.
Speaking at a campaign event in Washington DC, he added: “Now we all want to get back to making America strong and great again”. “And I would say it should not be a prescription, it should not be done by prescription.You have women that just aren’t able to go get a prescription. When will he stop this ugliness, this bigotry?” she asked.
Trump and his supporters have attacked the former Secretary of State’s supposedly weak mental and physical condition, with the Republican questioning her ability to deal with pressure situations in a speech in Ohio.
“President Obama’s successor can not and will not be the man who led the racist birther movement”.
After Trump’s remark today, Clinton’s campaign released the following statement: “Trump’s actions today were disgraceful”.
“Hey look”, Trump told Sean Hannity at CPAC, President Obama “wrote a book when he was a young man and it said ‘born in Kenya, ‘ blah blah blah”.
In an unusual move, the president held a press conference in 2011 releasing his birth certificate.
Trump, an outspoken proponent of the so-called “birther” movement, addressed the issue with a short statement at his recently opened Trump International Hotel in Washington. “I think most people were as well”, he said.
The 44th USA president was born in Hawaii.
Trump did, in fact, lead a public campaign of skeptics that eventually pressured the White House to release the president’s birth certificate on April 27, 2011.
But his reluctance to put the issue to rest once and for all is departure from what his campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said last Friday.
“Having successfully obtained President Obama’s birth certificate when others could not, Mr. Trump believes that President Obama was born in the United States”, said Trump media advisor Jason Miller.
The White House has long viewed Trump’s claims as racist, aimed at delegitimising the president.
But Trump himself has not flatly said Obama was born in Hawaii.
Mr Miller’s claim that Mrs Clinton launched the birther movement during her unsuccessful primary run against Mr Obama in 2008 is unsubstantiated and long denied.
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One of Trump’s sons, Donald Trump Jr., said Thursday that Miller’s statement “should be the definitive end” of questions about his father’s position.
