On CBS News’ Face the Nation on Sunday, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway pushed the claim that so-called “birtherism” began with the Clinton 2008 campaign by invoking the words of former Clinton campaign manager Patti Sollis Doyle.
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“You could put half of Trump supporters into what I call the ‘Basket of Deplorables, ‘ Clinton said about Trump supporters”.
Trump has made the point Pence described several times before, without causing an outcry.
“She doesn’t want guns”, Trump said.
His remarks on Friday were more ominous – focused not on Clinton’s supposed hypocrisy and how she would “feel” without armed guards but on what might “happen to her” if the Secret Service were to disarm. “It will be very risky”, he added.
“Hillary wants to abolish – essentially abolish the Second Amendment”.
“I’ve seen that transition work in my state from fighting against equality, fighting against inclusion to embracing it and being stronger as a result”, Kaine said, echoing Clinton’s “stronger together” campaign-trail theme. It jumped on the statement, saying it made Trump unfit to be president, rather than explaining Clinton’s policies don’t aim to take away Second Amendment rights.
“This kind of talk”, Mook said in the Clinton statement, “should be out of bounds for a presidential candidate, just like it should be out of bounds for a presidential candidate to peddle a conspiracy theory about the president of the United States for five years”.
USA society is uncomfortable with powerful women and that is why the United States has not yet elected a woman president, President Barack Obama said on Sunday. That volunteer staffer, they said, was terminated right away. So for five years, and you were doing it to try to attack Hillary Clinton, does that mean for five years Donald Trump was perpetuating a smear?
A majority of registered voters think the Democratic and Republican parties chose poorly when it comes to their respective standard bearers, who are both historically unpopular.
But he also stepped up attacks against his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, accusing her of initiating the doubts about Obama and later raising the specter of violence against her again.
“This is not what the American people are talking about”, Pence said, calling it a “sidebar debate” Trump is no longer interested in having.
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The vice presidential candidate blamed Clinton and the national media from wanting “to distract attention”, and then asserted that there are “news reports” tracing the “birther movement all the way back to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2008” – a fallacy pushed by Trump’s spokesman and, then, Trump late this week.
