“I finished it”, Trump said.
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Hillary Clinton on Thursday ripped into rival Donald Trump for declining to say President Barack Obama was born in the United States.
And Trump’s attempt to pull Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton into the fray by claiming she endorsed birther tactics against Obama during their 2008 race didn’t seem to sit well with some black voters either. There is no evidence that is true. And she’s embraced her role as a pop culture fixture far more willingly than her role as one of the most popular figures in Democratic politics. “That’s the way it worked out”, Trump said in a phone interview with Fox Business Network early Friday. “He still wouldn’t say America”, Clinton said in comments carried by The Telegraph as she re-entered the campaign trail after her collapse due to pneumonia at the 9/11 memorial.
She said Trump is feeding into the “worst impulses, the bigotry and bias” that lurks in the nation. “I just don’t want to answer it yet”, Trump told The Washington Post. I want to focus on jobs.
“There is no erasing it in history”, she said of Trump’s place in the so-called birther movement.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus held a news conference to urge African-American voters to resist any temptation to support Trump.
Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961, despite allegations from birthers who charged that he was likely born in his father’s native Kenya, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Hillary Clinton’s running mate says his views on immigration were “definitely” shaped by living in Honduras as a Roman Catholic missionary in the 1980s.
“This man is on a mission to heap as much insult on this president, to do as much as he possibly can to delegitimize his presidency and play into a narrative that has been floated in this country for over 200 years”, he said.
When a reporter tweeted that Trump meant to put the issue to rest, a Clinton campaign spokesman tweeted: “Good luck with that”.
He did not explain his string of statements and tweets promoting the conspiracy theory that continued through this presidential campaign. “We need somebody who is going to lead from the front like Donald Trump”.
In a statement, Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook called Trump’s actions “disgraceful”.
Eric Schultz, a White House spokesman, declined to comment about the Trump campaign’s press release.
He added: “I don’t talk about it anymore”.
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.
Once again, this statement came from a campaign staffer, not Trump himself.
Trump, a real estate mogul, devoted more time at the beginning of the event to talking about his hotel where the event took place.
Trump has claimed to have devoted considerable resources to Obama’s birth place, telling reporters in 2011 that he had sent a team of his own investigators to Hawaii in hopes of resolving the issue. “I think that most people were”.
Jason Miller, the Senior Communications Advisor for the republican campaign for Donald Trump, has recently admitted that Trump believes that Barack Obama was, in fact, born in the United States.
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The White House initially tried to ignore the birtherism movement as the work of conspiracy theorists but Trump’s huge media profile propelled the issue through conservative media and it eventually gathered traction.
