Trump’s deft handling of the media is one more reason that he must be elected and installed in the White House as America’s 45th president!
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Trump wondered how Clinton would fare under those circumstances.
But as the Republican presidential nominee sought to put that false conspiracy theory to rest, he stoked another, claiming the “birther movement” was begun by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. “I think most people were as well”. That false equivalence is not true.
Trump had for years promoted the birther movement against Obama, who was born in Hawaii to an American mother and a Kenyan father.
Mrs Clinton’s team has accused Mr Trump of “inciting people to violence”.
Video appears to show Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stumble as she leaves the 9/11 memorial at ground zero Sunday morning.
On Friday, Trump finally did so, but even his moment of truth was couched in a lie.
Clinton responded by demanding that Trump apologize to President Obama, charging her opponent with trying to “delegitimize our first black president”.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump talks about avoiding illness despite a grueling campaign schedule and why he prefers fast food on the road.
Most analysts view the birther issue as politically poisonous for Trump in a general election, particularly among African American voters. It’s something Republican former Secretary of State Colin Powell called, in hacked emails, “racist”.
The Trump campaign told reporters it meant to cleanse itself of the issue, once and for all.
The crowd then broke into chants of “Four more years”, suggesting they wanted the Obamas to return to the White House for another term.
Obama declined to comment on Trump´s revival of the birther issue, telling reporters he had better things to do.
I’ve spent much of this week on the road, criss-crossing the state talking to Texans about the upcoming election.
“This is a campaign and a candidate that completely understands how the press works – or doesn’t work – and exploits the blatant weaknesses of political journalism”, said Dan Gillmor, a media scholar at Arizona State University. “I just don’t want to answer it yet”, Trump told the newspaper.
That despite his campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, claiming a week ago that Trump does believe Obama was born in the U.S. To that, Trump told the Post, “It’s okay”. I want to focus on jobs.
Ahead of the event, Trump had hyped over Fox News that he would be making a major announcement about the “birther” controversy of the US President, Barack Obama.
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They were outraged by Trump’s actions Friday morning, when he concluded a campaign event at his new hotel just across town in Washington with a few blunt sentences admitting that Obama was born in America. 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.
