Donald Trump has acknowledged Barack Obama was born in the U.S. after pushing conspiracy theories.
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“And that’s because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter, like, did we fake the moon landing?”
The Black Women’s Agenda invited both candidates to address its annual conference, but the group’s president said only Clinton had accepted.
It was a spectacle that exemplified all the most extraordinary aspects of Trump’s unorthodox candidacy: his ability to game the media, his embrace of conspiracy theories, and his pattern of repeating fallacies, even in the face of contradicting facts. He used the issue to build his political profile, earn media attention and define his status as an “outsider” willing to challenge conventions.
Not only CNN but also all the major networks showed Trump’s event at his newly inaugurated Trump International Hotel in Washington DC as pro-Trump military members started speaking.
CNN and other major TV stations did not broadcast Trump’s rally as they often do, suggesting the United States media is heeding widespread criticism that it devotes too much attention to the Republican candidate.
First Lady Michelle Obama also criticised Trump during her 2016 campaign debut Friday, saying the choice for voters is “excruciatingly clear” between Clinton and a candidate who “traffics in prejudice, fear and lies”.
“Trump has spent years peddling a racist conspiracy aimed at undermining the first African-American president”, Clinton tweeted after his Friday event. “He can’t just take it back”.
Trump was the most prominent proponent of the “birther” idea, using it to build his political profile and his conservative credentials.
Barack Obama won the White House in 2008 and 2012 with high levels of support from young people.
As late as Wednesday, Trump was refusing to acknowledge Obama was born in Hawaii, saying in an interview that he’d “answer that question at the right time”.
About five minutes after that Trump took the podium to speak four short statements.
The facts do not match Miller’s description.
Trump represented Clinton’s position on gun rights as wanting to “destroy your Second Amendment” and said that her “armed bodyguards” should no longer carry firearms in light of her policy stance. It said Trump deserves credit for putting questions about Obama’s birth to rest.
“An “extremely credible source” has called my office and told me that @BarackObama’s birth certificate is a fraud”, he wrote.
Trump, who has been known to add spontaneous riffs into his prepared remarks, took it upon himself to add the caveat of freeing political prisoners to his list of demands from Cuba in order to keep diplomatic relations open. “We’re talking about something else, OK?” “I mean, I have my own theory on Obama”.
“I am shocked that a question like that would come up at a time when we have so many other things to do”, he said, before adding “Well, I am not that shocked”.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said that the Secret Service agents who guard his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton should disarm to “see what happens to her” without their protection.
