Clinton campaign: Trump’s actions on Obama birth issue ‘disgraceful’

While campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Virginia, First Lady Michelle Obama reduced Trump to a pile of orange rubble, by unloading on the character of the Republican nominee.

But that announcement wasn’t without anticipation.

“Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has been based on the birther movement which he founded”, she said. “We have to keep the suspense going, OK?”

“I don’t know exactly what he wrote, but certainly we never – the ’08 campaign – never promoted the birther conspiracy”.

Clinton Slams Trump on “Birther” Comments Hillary Clinton slammed Trump over his role in the so-called “birther” movement that questioned President Obama’s citizenship. “Period”, Trump told those gathered.

He didn’t really say why.

As late as Wednesday, Trump refused to acknowledge Obama was born in Hawaii, declining to address the matter in a Washington Post interview published late Thursday night. He continued to blame Hillary Clinton, 68, for the “birtherism” dispute. Miller’s statement also accused the Clinton campaign of 2008 of raising this issue against Obama during that year’s Democratic primaries, though there’s no evidence tying those charges to the candidate. A USA president must be a natural-born citizen. “Over the past five years, barely a day went by when he didn’t call me and say, ‘Barack, I don’t care what a bunch of crackpots say”. Obama took to the White House Briefing Room to blast Trump as a “carnival barker”. “I just don’t want to answer it yet”. Trump repeatedly questioned Obama’s birth in the years after Obama released his birth certificate.

A few years into his presidency, Obama, the first African American to win the White House, released a longer version of his birth certificate to answer those who suggested he was not USA born.

In the memo, the staffer advised that one way to point out a weakness for Obama, then her competitor, was press after his “lack of American roots”.

“Trump’s actions today were disgraceful”, Mook said in a statement. An additional 31 percent of Republicans neither agreed nor disagreed with the statement and only a quarter of Republicans surveyed believed Obama was born in the U.S.

Trump, she alleged, “is feeding into the worst impulses, the bigotry and bias that lurks” in the country. “I was pretty confident about where I was born”, he said.

Hours later, campaign spokesman Jason Miller issued a statement that suggested the question had been settled five years ago – by Trump. “This sickening display shows more than ever why Donald Trump is totally unfit be president”.

“With every word they utter, they can start wars, crash markets, change the course of this planet.For me, it is excruciatingly clear that there is only one person in this election that we can trust with those responsibilities”, she added.