Trump keeps the birther controversy ALIVE

Trump had the chance to kill the birther issue by just agreeing with this surrogates who continue to say that he now believes Obama was born in the US. But what does he do instead? He keeps the birther controversy alive:

CNN – Donald Trump on Thursday again refused to say whether he believes President Barack Obama was born in the US, despite recent efforts by his top surrogates to downplay the “birther” controversy.

I’ll answer that question at the right time. I just don’t want to answer it yet,” Trump told The Washington Post.

Trump was responding to a question about whether Kellyanne Conway, his campaign manager, was being accurate when she said last week that Trump now believes Obama was born in the United States.

Trump told the Post he didn’t want to talk about the so-called “birther” controversy anymore, but refused to say what he believed about it.

“It’s OK. (Conway) is allowed to speak what she thinks. I want to focus on jobs, I want to focus on other things,” he said. “I don’t talk about it anymore. The reason I don’t is because then everyone is going to be talking about it as opposed to jobs, the military, the vets, security.”

Conway told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on “New Day” last Friday that the so-called birther controversy is over. Her remarks came after similar comments from Trump surrogate and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who said that Trump now believes Obama was born in the United States.

Trump has lied so much in this campaign, I can’t believe he wouldn’t just do it again to put this issue to rest. All he had to say was he believes Obama was born here. That’s it. But he couldn’t bring himself to do it.

Of course the media is going to continue to ask him about it because he made such a huge deal about it before, and they will gun for anything that will help Hillary, even though she’s the first birther.

If I were a betting man I’d put money on this being one of the questions at the first debate. He’ll have to do a better job than ‘I’ll answer it after I’m president’, which is really what he was telling the Washington Post.


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