Clinton: Trump guilty of pushing ‘racist conspiracy’ about Obama’s birthplace

There is no evidence that is true.

After all, this isn’t an apology for Trump’s birtherism, it’s a rationalization for it – and not a very good one.

But Trump himself has not flatly said Obama was born in Hawaii.

Despite his statement Friday, Trump did not apologize for stirring the controversy, and Clinton blasted him on Twitter. However, that did not affect his ability to beat more than a dozen challengers in the GOP primaries and has yet to dissuade his loyal supporters.

Trump’s support among black voters is remarkably low, with just 7 percent of them saying they would vote for him, compared with almost eight in 10 who back Clinton, in Morning Consult’s most recent survey.

“I don’t talk about it because if I talk about that, your whole thing will be about that”, he told reporters aboard his plane last week. What we don’t know is where the money actually went, since his foundation claimed on its tax forms to have given thousands to organizations that say they have never received said money.

For years, Trump has been the most prominent proponent of the “birther” idea. He used the issue to build his political profile and define his status as an “outsider” willing to challenge conventions. Friday’s rally in northern Virginia, less than an hour drive from the White House, is the only event she’s publicly committed to, though the Clinton campaign expects her to make additional appearances. But Trump did not explain how or when he’d come to that conclusion.

Clinton slammed Trump’s comments to the Post while speaking at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute event in Washington Thursday, saying he needs to stop his “ugliness” and “bigotry”.

“This man is on a mission to heap as much insult on this president, to do as much as he possibly can to delegitimize his presidency and play into a narrative that has been floated in this country for over 200 years”, he said. She’ll attempt to fix this on Monday with a speech in Philadelphia aimed at the Millennial generation, where her campaign says she will “lay out the stakes of November’s election for Millennial voters”.

Clinton responded to a Trump campaign statement released late Thursday that acknowledged Obama’s USA birth.

“President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period”, Trump said.

The facts of Trump’s actions do not match Miller’s description.

“An “extremely credible source” has called my office and told me that @BarackObama’s birth certificate is a fraud”, he wrote.

There also were public announcements of Obama’s birth published in Hawaii newspapers shortly after his birth in 1961 (placed there not by his family, as Trump suggested, but based on official state records).

Miller added, “Inarguably, Donald J. Trump is a closer. We’re talking about something else, OK?”

If you weren’t yet convinced that Trump is playing the media – and the voters – for all they’re worth, consider how everyone was manipulated. “You know what I mean”. “Imagine a president who sees someone who doesn’t look like him and doesn’t agree with him and thinks that person must not be a real American”. It was only when Obama first released his full birth certificate and then mocked Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner that year that Trump seemed to drop the issue. It’s fairly typical. We got other business to attend to. On Friday morning, Trump finally said, reluctantly, that he did in fact believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States, but is it too late to avoid major damage to his own campaign from his most recent gaffe?