Donald Trump received a bit of an unexpected question from a reporter at his press conference, who asked him if he was sorry “all the lies you have done to the American people.”
The reporter was SV Date, White House correspondent for HuffPost, who also served as reporter for the print pool on Thursday.
Date originally asked, “Mr. President, do you regret all the lies you have done to the American people? ”
“Everything?” Trump responded.
“All lies, all dishonesty,” Date replied.
“And who is that?” Trump asked.
“You did,” Date said.
After a pause, Trump moved on to another question.
Date later wrote on Twitter, “For five years I wanted to ask him that.”
At the press conference, Trump reiterated that balloting by mail would lead to massive voter fraud, even though fact-checking sites have concluded that such fraud is “too rare.”
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Trump was also asked about Kamala Harris’ qualification to serve on the Democratic ticket, an idea that soon sent out calls for birtherism that ran during Barack Obama’s presidency.
“I heard today that she does not meet the requirements,” he said. “I have no idea if that’s right.”
He referred to a Newsweek story in which the writer, John Eastman, doubted Kamala Harris’ qualification to be on the ticket. She was born in Oakland, but her parents were not naturalized at the time. Nevertheless, the Constitution and a judgment of the Supreme Court made it clear that she was a natural-born citizen.
Following Trump’s remark, Meghan McCain tweeted about what her father, John McCain, experienced when he ran for president.
She wrote: ‘I hate this shit. My father was born on a military base where my grandfather was stationed and there were conspiracies about his eligibility, apparently Obama birtherism. This is a gross, dark trend in American policy on birth qualification that is all clear and obvious. Hold up.”
