Sep 17, 2016- Donald Trump, the main supporter of false claims about Barack Obama’s birthplace, has finally said he accepts that the president was born in the U.S., “period”. At an August rally in North Carolina, he seemed to suggest that armed citizens could stop a hypothetical president Clinton from putting justices who favor gun control on the Supreme Court.
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A former McClatchy Washington Bureau chief said on Twitter earlier today that close Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal told him to his face in 2008 that then Senator Barack Obama was born in Kenya, and he should send a reporter there to check it out.
Mrs. Obama has carefully cultivated her image as a devoted mother who prefers to stay out of the political fray.
However, the media are zeroing in on Trump’s assertion Hillary Clinton is responsible for starting birtherism.
There is no evidence to link Mrs Clinton to the birthers. “I finished it, I finished it”, Trump said.
The celebrity TV star has questioned Obama’s U.S. citizenship – a legal prerequisite for becoming president – since at least 2011.
“President Obama’s successor can not and will not be the man who led the racist birther movement”. High profile public figures, like Clinton and also Trump are targets for political violence. While this is not for the first time that Mr. Trump has said this, but it is for the first time he said that such a move would be risky for Ms. Clinton.
“The campaign, nor Hillary, did not start the birther movement”.
“His campaign was founded on this outrageous lie. She doesn’t have the energy”, Trump said.
“He’s feeding into the worst impulses, the bigotry and bias that lurks in our country”, she added.
One of the speakers at the event, retired Gen. Thomas McInerney, has also publicly questioned whether Obama was born in this country.
Trump has long made suggesting his Democratic opponent wants to overturn the Second Amendment and take away Americans’ right to own guns a part of his over-the-top rally performances.
“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.
“Take their guns away. Let’s see what happens to her”, Trump said. “It’ll be very risky”, Mr. Trump said, stocking another controversy.
Spokesman Robby Mook released a statement saying Trump “has a pattern of inciting people to violence”.
So, there is still work to do if she is to get more younger voters picking her over her Republican rival.
Mr Trump later disputed that criticism, saying everyone in his audience knew he was referring to the power of voters and “there can be no other interpretation”.
The commission said the two third-party candidates didn’t register enough support in polls to qualify.
The States of the Nation project, which delivers a weekly tally of support for the candidates in every state, shows that the race has tightened in several traditional battlegrounds.
The Secret Service responded to those comments shortly after. He replied: “I’m shocked that a question like that has come up at a time when we have so many other things to do”.
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The president added: “I was pretty confident about where I was born. And my hope would be that the presidential election reflects more serious issues than that”. While Mr. Blumenthal offered no concrete proof of Obama’s Kenyan birth, I felt that, as journalists, we had a responsibility to determine whether or not those rumors were true. What really happened in Roswell? In addition to that headwind, almost 70 percent of Americans say they believe the country is on the wrong track – an ominous sign for the incumbent party.
