President
Donald Trump is reportedly reviving the racist “
birther” conspiracy theory, which claims that President
Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States.
Trump has been questioning Obama’s birth certificate in “closed-door conversations,” according to The New York Times, which cited an unnamed senator as being part of one such discussion.
The newspaper reported:
“Mr. Trump’s journeys into the realm of manufactured facts have been frequent enough that his own staff has sought to nudge friendly lawmakers to ask questions of Mr. Trump in meetings that will steer him toward safer terrain.”
Trump was for years one of the leading voices in the birther movement, a racist conspiracy theory that
questioned the legitimacy of the nation’s first black president.
He dropped the issue toward the end of the presidential campaign last year.
“
President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period,” he said in September, then he blamed his Democratic rival
Hillary Clinton for the conspiracy theory, a claim that
has been debunked.
Obama was born in Hawaii on Aug. 4, 1961. Two Honolulu newspapers printed birth announcements at the time, and Obama has released both his “
short-form” and “
long-form” birth certificates.
The report comes days after the paper said Trump was
privately suggesting that the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape is a fake. That’s the recording released last year in which he bragged about grabbing women by the genitals.
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Trump has never apologized to President Obama - and now he regurgitates his old birther lie. What about those investigators that Trump sent to Hawaii? Trump is a very sick man-child. He really should be quickly removed from the presidency.
I honestly do not care except for one thing.
The birther movement was not racist nor a racist movement and that is simple fact.
The birther movement was nothing more than a run of the mill conspiracy theory. EVERY president has some fringe group of conspiracy loons trying to make the news. Reagan had a bunch of fools claiming he and or his VP conspired to keep the iranian hostages in captivity through election night, also known as the October surprise. It was total bullshit unsupported by any credible evidence of any kind making it a conspiracy theory.
Bush sr was accused of being part of a one world order movement determined to overthrow and invade the US with black helicopters from the UN. Total bullshit, comic book fiction and never a speck of credible evidence.
Clinton was accused of rape and murder to include the murder of Vince Foster and others and of course people said he was a communist. Bullshit and no evidence.
Bush jr was accused of staging 911 and covering up the evidenc e even though no twoofer has ever produced a shred of evidence to support such crap/\.
Sorry but Obama does not get a pass. He got a few idiotic fringe nobodies claiming he was born in another country which makes him ineligible to be president. Total bullshit without a shred of evidence but just another foolish conspiracy theory.
Being foolish does not make one racist and SOME of the conspiracy fols may be racist but that does not make the theory racist. It was simply stupid.
This may seem like a minor point but it is not. One of the biggest reasons Trump won ( aside from Hillary's incompetence and corruption ) was the ongoing and ridiculous tendency of left wingers to point fingers and scream racist ( or sexist or islamaphobic or trans phobic or homophobic or whatever ) Anytime they hear an opinion or idea they do not like.
This is an SJW tactic and unfortunately for the dems they have allowed the Sociail Justice Warrior shit heads to take over as mouth piece and conscience of the dem party. Most Americans are rapidly growing sick of this crap especially white men who are usually the targets of SJW labeling tactics.
Trump is what happened as a result.
Stop the bullshit labeling silly but otherwise meaningless crap such as the birther movement as racist.
It is an absolute lie to call it racist and proves you are not intelligent enough to debate and argue effectively because you can only screech hyperbole.