Thread: LIVE Stream: Donald Trump at Trump International Hotel, Washington

Donald Trump addresses the Birther issue about Obama. He made a couple of comments. Obama born in U.S., period. He ended it with Clinton started it, I finished it. Now we want to get back to "Making America Great Again".

Short speech.

The End.

CNN is freaking out. Says they got played.

Short VIDEO Clip of Trump addressing this at the end of the event today.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0CSDXt...Kgaz0U6GdSWxg3

Genius move on his part. Love it!

Originally Posted by Jean

Genius move on his part. Love it!

Yes, it was, Jean.

Here is statement from Campaign.

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-r...aign-statement

- SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 -


TRUMP CAMPAIGN STATEMENT


"Hillary Clinton’s campaign first raised this issue to smear then-candidate Barack Obama in her very nasty, failed 2008 campaign for President. This type of vicious and conniving behavior is straight from the Clinton Playbook. As usual, however, Hillary Clinton was too weak to get an answer. Even the MSNBC show Morning Joe admits that it was Clinton’s henchmen who first raised this issue, not Donald J. Trump.


In 2011, Mr. Trump was finally able to bring this ugly incident to its conclusion by successfully compelling President Obama to release his birth certificate. Mr. Trump did a great service to the President and the country by bringing closure to the issue that Hillary Clinton and her team first raised. Inarguably, Donald J. Trump is a closer. Having successfully obtained President Obama’s birth certificate when others could not, Mr. Trump believes that President Obama was born in the United States.


Mr. Trump is now totally focused on bringing jobs back to America, defeating radical Islamic terrorism, taking care of our veterans, introducing school choice opportunities and rebuilding and making our inner cities safe again." – Jason Miller, Senior Communications Advisor

by CHARLIE SPIERING
16 Sep 2016

Top CNN employees are frustrated. They breathlessly went live to Donald Trump’s news conference at his new hotel in Washington D.C., only to wait helplessly as veterans stood up to explain why they support Trump as commander-in-chief.

“It’s hard to imagine this as anything other than a political rick-roll,” anchor Jake Tapper said wryly as CNN cut away from the broadcast of the Trump event and asked him to comment.

The Trump campaign signaled that the Republican presidential nominee would address the birther controversy, but the first 20 minutes of the event featured veterans telling the media why they supported Trump.

CNN eventually cut away from the event – even as veterans continued to speak, as anchors griped that the event was not what they thought it was. But they were forced to return to Trump just minutes later as he made a short definitive statement that he believed that Obama was born in the United States.

“I really don’t quite know what to make of that except for that we got played again by the Trump campaign which is what they do,” said John King afterward, pointing out that Trump tricked them into covering a live event.

(video within tweet)
Charlie Spiering ✔ @charliespiering
"We got played!" CNN reacts to @realDonaldTrump epic press conference troll
9:52 AM - 16 Sep 2016

“We just got played. We just got played,” he repeated.

Marc Lamont Hill a host of BET News, called Trump’s stunt “repugnant.”

“Donald Trump has never give a speech this short before on any issue!” he said. “He talks for hours sometimes when it’s supposed to be five minutes.”

CNN’s Dana Bash admitted that CNN would have never aired Trump’s event if it knew about the structure of the event.

“What they did, was tease us that he was going to say something, then as John said, played us by making sure that everybody who has an ability to show Donald Trump actually took 20 minutes or got 20 minutes of very important decorated veterans praising somebody who they think should be the next commander-in-chief, which would not have been live on cable news otherwise,” she said.

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presid...birther-troll/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVR0mxEgQU8

Trump is one smart cookie!!

He maneuvered the press into showing more concern for where Trump thinks Obama was born than who our Medal of Honor veterans believe should be President of the United States.

“What they did, was tease us that he was going to say something, then as John said, played us by making sure that everybody who has an ability to show Donald Trump actually took 20 minutes or got 20 minutes of very important decorated veterans praising somebody who they think should be the next commander-in-chief, which would not have been live on cable news otherwise,” she said.

And the icing on the cake was the live opportunity to blame Hillary (correctly) for the whole birther movement to begin with. Something NOW that will tarnish her campaign with the black vote, because her campaign DID start it, in fact someone who was "there" at the time, in a powerful position just tweeted that she "fired the rogue" who worked for the campaign who started it, something Hillary has known for years, while telling the public she had nothing to do with it and the press has been claiming the Hillary campaign had nothing to do with, which is completely false. They had everything to do with it, they started it.

Now it's been exposed!! Trump is brilliant. He created a scenario that flushed out the people who started the birther movement and it was Hillary Clinton's own campaign.

So now the plot thickens, will remain thick during the rest of the campaign and a major question of the first debate to Hillary will be: "did you know your campaign started the birther movement?"

Related:

http://www.alipac.us/f9/bombshell-%9...vement-337401/

Trump will be ready for this at the debates.