“This sickening display shows more than ever why Donald Trump is totally unfit be president”.
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Trump also said the USA has a broader obligation to stand with oppressed people – a comment that seems at odds with his “America first” mantra. “Let’s see what happens to her”, Trump said. “I finished it, you know what I mean”.
During his presidential campaign, Trump has readily trafficked in other theories that are the stuff of American supermarket tabloids.
There’s a big difference between what fringe supporters of Clinton said at the time, who were disavowed by the candidate, and the campaign Trump himself undertook in the subsequent years. They’re the leader of the world’s largest economy, the commander in chief of the most powerful military force on Earth.
Trump senior adviser Boris Epshteyn said later Friday on CNN that Trump was simply “being sarcastic” in his remarks.
He went on: ‘Take their guns away, she doesn’t want guns.
She said Mr Trump is “feeding into the worst impulses, the bigotry and bias that lurks in our country”. Although it has not been a prominent issue of the 2016 campaign, Trump’s refusal to clarify his stance on the matter has led to persistent questioning and his campaign had hinted that Trump accepted the reality of the president’s American birth.
Obama declined to comment on Trump’s revival of the birther issue, telling reporters he had better things to do.
FOX 10 asked if Arpaio agreed with Trump that the president was born in the United States. “And he’s answered these questions with the progress that we’ve achieved together”, she said.
“I think that before you cast a protest vote – because either Clinton or Trump will become president – think hard about it”, Sanders told MSNBC’s Morning Joe show on Friday. They are traditionally among the most loyal Democratic supporters, and many black voters viewed Trump’s championing of the birther movement since 2011 as a racist effort to delegitimize the first African-American president.
On Friday morning, facing dismal approval ratings among minority voters, Trump said for the first time that Barack Obama was in fact born on USA soil.
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said Trump’s remarks “should be out of bounds for a presidential candidate”.
Among them, he told the cheering crowd, would be “religious and political freedom for the Cuban people and the freeing of political prisoners”.
Penn eventually left the Clinton campaign, and his advice was never acted upon.
“President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period”, Mr Trump declared, enunciating each word in a brief statement at the end of a campaign appearance.
Again, if there is evidence that Clinton or her campaign had something to do with the origins of the so-called birther movement, we’ve yet to see it.
The controversy reignited Thursday when Trump again demurred on Obama’s citizenship, forcing his campaign into damage control. “I have met every president since President Kennedy”.
The Republican candidate has often accused Clinton of touting ambitious gun-control measures that, as he puts it, would “essentially abolish” the Second Amendment.
“He has a history of being not just a racist but. arrogant about it and so that’s who he is, I accept who he is but, don’t expect us to suddenly welcome him with open arms”, said Jaladah Aslam, President of The Youngstown-Warren Black Caucus.
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“And then, of course, there were those who questioned – and continued to question for the past eight years, up through this very day – whether my husband was even born in this country”, shesaid, referring to Trump’s past statements about her husband being born in Kenya.
