Obama raises off Romney's willingness to host Trump
Barack Obama during his Middle East speech. Screencap via whitehouse.gov.
11:38 am May. 31, 2012
President Obama is soliciting donations in response to Mitt Romney's highly-publicized fund-raiser with Donald Trump, who took the occasion on Tuesday to reiterate his questions about the president's place of birth.
"It appears that my opponent has no problem hosting campaign events with someone who is questioning whether I was born in America," said Obama, in a morning email to supporters with the subject line "Where I Was Born."
"They know it's nonsense. But they've decided that the radical fringe of their party will do more to elect Mitt Romney than the truth will.
"You and I can't tell them how to run their campaign. But we can make sure it is a losing one."
Trump made a stir during his pretend primary campaign last year by publicly doubting the president was born in Hawaii, leading the White House to make a special request to the Hawaii Secretary of State to release the president's long-form birth certificate. The certificiate of live birth apparently failed to satisfy Trump, who now cites a mistake by a publishing house as evidence that Obama is lying.
Trump was supposed to have been the Romney campaign's counterpoint to a lucrative fund-raiser organized for Obama by George Clooney, but instead, the Romney campaign spent the day beating back questions about Trump's beliefs.
The president signed his email this morning: "Aloha, Barack."
Here is the full text:
Friend --
It appears that my opponent has no problem hosting campaign events with someone who is questioning whether I was born in America.
They know it's nonsense. But they've decided that the radical fringe of their party will do more to elect Mitt Romney than the truth will.
You and I can't tell them how to run their campaign.
But we can make sure it is a losing one. Make a donation before the midnight deadline:
https://donate.barackobama.com/Deadline-Tonight
Aloha,
Barack
