Trump told the Washington Post that he’s not ready to say President Barack Obama is a natural-born USA citizen.
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Trump was finally able to bring this ugly incident to its conclusion by successfully compelling President Obama to release his birth certificate.
“If we just sigh and shake our heads and accept this, then what does that tell our kids about who we are?”
“You stayed focused no matter what kind of outlandish and offensive comments we have heard from my opponent and his supporters”, she said before adding to laughter and applause: “By the way, I personally think a taco truck on every corner sounds absolutely delicious”. “Mr. Trump did a great service to the President and country by bringing closure to the issue that Hillary Clinton first raised”.
“A review by our fellow fact-checkers at Factcheck.org reported that no journalist who investigated this ever found a connection to anyone in the Clinton organization”, the group said at the time.
Clinton said there were “no dog whistles” anymore with Trump, meaning he wasn’t sending out messages only select followers could hear.
Brian Fallon, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign, blasted Trump, saying that he need to make the admission himself and not through a surrogate.
Yet Thursday night’s developments were threatening to develop into a new fiasco for Mr Trump that could become a unsafe distraction at a time when there had been signs of his campaign both become more focused and disciplined and of new poll movement in his favour. “I want to focus on jobs, I want to focus on other things”, he said. “When will he stop this ugliness, this bigotry”, she said.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute awards gala marked Clinton’s second event back on the trail after a bout with pneumonia that sidelined her for three days. Obama’s word that he was not a Muslim, but when pressed if she believed he was, she replied, “No”.
Regardless of the controversy’s origins, Trump has used it to launch his political career.
Tweet Embed: https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/232572505238433794 An “extremely credible source” has called my office and told me that @BarackObama’s birth certificate is a fraud. “Because if he can’t, if he can’t, if he wasn’t born in this country, which is a real possibility. then he has pulled one of the great cons in the history of politics”.
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The 2012 Republican candidate Mitt Romney referred to the discredited theory at a campaign rally in August that year, joking that no-one had asked to see his birth certificate – drawing swift condemnation from the Obama campaign. In 2011, the president released his long-form birth certificate, which showed that he was born in Hawaii.
