Hillary Clinton is “recovering well” from pneumonia and remains “fit to serve as president of the United States”, her doctor said in a letter released last night by her campaign.
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Trump was, for many years, the most prominent proponent of the “birther” movement, which claimed Obama was born outside the USA and thus ineligible to be president – despite the fact that he was born in Hawaii.
“In 2011, Mr. Trump was finally able to bring this ugly incident to its conclusion by successfully compelling President Obama to release his birth certificate”, Miller said.
But even that statement, which argued that Mr Trump had done a “great service” to the country and to Mr Obama himself by “compelling” him to release his full-form birth certificate in 2011, can not be taken as the end of the matter since it was signed not by the candidate but by a spokesman. He told The Washington Post on Thursday that he’ll “answer that question at the right time”.
Taking the stage at a Greensboro, N.C., rally to the tune of James Brown’s “I Feel Good”, Clinton called the days off she took after being seen collapsing over the weekend at a September 11 memorial “a gift” that most Americans can not afford. “So I think what you’re going to see from us over the next few weeks is trying to showcase why she’s running, what she wants to get done, the people she wants to help”. “When will he stop this ugliness, this bigotry?” she continued.
Trump has still yet to personally say where he believes Obama was born and the Trump campaign has long maintained “only Mr Trump speaks for Mr Trump”.
Trump’s team took a swipe at Clinton’s brief absence from the campaign trail in a statement accompanying the new health information.
“Mr. Trump is now totally focused on bringing jobs back to America, defeating radical Islamic terrorism, taking care of our veterans, introducing school choice opportunities and rebuilding and making our inner cities safe again”.
Clinton mocked Trump’s television rollout of his health records, saying “I’ll never be the showman that my opponent is – just look at the show he put on for Dr. Oz today”.
But Trump himself has not flatly said Obama was born in Hawaii. Mr Trump leads her by 5 percentage points in a Bloomberg Politics poll of OH, a gap that underscores the Democrat’s challenges in critical Rust Belt states after one of the roughest stretches of her campaign.
The letter from Clinton’s doctor made no mention of her weight, a key part of any medical exam, nor did a similar letter released a year ago. In 2011, he emerged as one of the fringe movement’s leaders, repeatedly seeking to cast doubt on Obama’s citizenship and legitimacy in office.
Trump has long promoted the theory that Obama is secretly an immigrant.
At the same gala dinner, President Barack Obama said the political season’s discussion of immigration “has cut deeper than in years past”.
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“Well I don’t know”, he said when asked if he was convinced by the certificate. “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”. “The only quote that matters is a quote from me!” That’s a sharp contrast to Trump’s proposal of building a wall and deporting millions of undocumented immigrants living in the country.
