News Flash: Donald Trump now believes that President Barack Obama was born in the country of which he is president.
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Apparently Donald Trump thought it had been too long between times he not-so-subtly called for Hillary Clinton’s assassination, which might explain why he once again raised the subject at a rally in Miami on Friday. “I know the press – they’re furious at Donald Trump because they got punked yesterday, pure and simple”. That volunteer staffer, they said, was terminated right away.
“During that meeting, Mr. Blumenthal and I met together in my office and he strongly urged me to investigate the exact place of President Obama’s birth, which he suggested was in Kenya”.
“You’ll have to ask him that”, Conway replied with a smile.
“She doesn’t want guns”, Trump said. She doesn’t want guns.
“Take their guns away. It’ll be very risky”, Trump said to the thunderous applause of his followers.
Pence could not provide further proof that Clinton or her campaign directly propagated birther claims. This all fits into a pattern of inciting into his supporters the worst fears they can imagine: a president they don’t want stealing away their basic Constitutional rights.
An uproar ensued over what Clinton supporters said was Trump’s newest suggestion of violence against her.
“It has tightened up because I think, Martha, as you know, even with your discussions with voters, we are a divided nation”, he said. “But we’ve seen again and again that no amount of failed resets can change who Donald Trump is”.
If Trump’s 51 percent lead carries through to Election Day, it would be the weakest showing in Oklahoma by a Republican presidential candidate in decades. But Trump still faces a basic conundrum: How can you win an election when your approval rating is under forty per cent and your disapproval rating is the highest of any Presidential candidate in recent history?
Trump declared on Friday that Obama was born in the USA and then blamed Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, for starting the birther controversy.
A spokeswoman for the Secret Service declined to comment.
Trump’s statement Friday came just a day after he refused to acknowledge to the Washington Post that Obama was born in the U.S. And for years, Trump had helped perpetuate conspiracy theories about whether the first black president is wholly American and in fact born in Hawaii – as his public birth certificate says, an attack many, including Clinton, have said is racially charged.
In an advance clip of the Tonight Show released by NBC, host Fallon briefly donned a surgical mask and pumped sanitizer into his hand before interviewing Clinton – a comic nod to the bout of pneumonia that kept Clinton sidelined from the campaign trail for three days this week.
One was a volunteer in Iowa, who was sacked, Clinton’s former campaign manager said Friday.
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Trump has also previously accused Clinton of hypocrisy for receiving protection from armed Security Service agents. Speaking to mostly students at George Mason University, she repeatedly jabbed Trump without mentioning him by name, declaring that being president “isn’t anything like reality TV”.
