Donald Trump on Friday wondered aloud what would happen to Hillary Clinton should her Secret Service detail disarm.
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“Whether this is done to provoke protesters at a rally or casually or even as a joke, it is an unacceptable quality in anyone seeking the job of commander in chief”, Mook said in a statement, adding, “He is unfit to be President and it is time Republican leaders stand up to denounce this disturbing behavior in their nominee”.
“I’m wondering when this country is going to awaken from this reality show”, said Representative Brenda Lawrence, a Democrat.
The real estate mogul repeatedly called for the President to release his full birth certificate and questioned the authenticity of the documents once he did so.
“With regard to an apology” from Trump, Earnest said, “I don’t think the President much cares”.
The birther conspiracy movement is aimed at challenging the legality of Obama’s presidency – the US Constitution requires that a president be a natural-born citizen.
Mr. Obama’s relatively strong approval ratings suggest he may be able to help with swing voters.
Hours later, Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller issued a statement that suggested the question had been settled five years ago – by Trump.
“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks”, Mr Trump told a rally in North Carolina on 9 August. It is the exclusivity of this definition, the magazine speculates, that Trump likely takes issue with.
But, unlike the 2009 note to Ms. Clinton in which he shared how he bypassed government servers while secretary of state, released last week at the behest of Democrats in Congress, we are seeing these only because Mr. Powell was hacked – which is to say, we really should not be seeing them. “We let that person go, and it was so, you know, beyond the pale, Wolf, and you know, so not worthy the kind of campaign that certainly Hillary wanted to run or that we as a staff wanted to run that I called David Plouffe, who was obviously managing Barack Obama’s campaign in ’07, to apologize and basically say this is not coming from us”. “It’s fairly typical. We’ve got other things to attend to”, he said. Trump held a press conference where he took credit for the development, but said he still needed to assess the document.
The charges also served to launch Trump’s political career, propelling him onto the national stage and winning him fans on the far right.
That disdain for Trump could well become an asset to Clinton’s campaign, particularly among younger African-American voters who aren’t excited about her candidacy and might have otherwise stayed home.
A Trump supporter holds a basket labeled “deplorable”, referencing Ms. Clinton’s comment about a “basket of deplorables”, at a campaign event in Aston, Pa., on September 13, 2016.
Trump’s declarations came after a Thursday interview when he was unable to give his opinion on whether he believed Obama was born in Hawaii.
Politifact has debunked that claim, saying in 2015 that the theory started with Clinton supporters in 2008, not the candidate herself.
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“The campaign, nor Hillary, did not start the birther movement”. “But all of the concessions that Barack Obama has granted the Castro regime were done through executive order, which means the next president can reverse them – and that is what I will do, unless the Castro regime meets our demands”.
