Trump Questioned Obama Birth Certificate In 2014, Despite Campaign Statement
Source: Buzzfeed
A Trump campaign official said on Thursday in a statement that Donald Trump now believes President Obama was born in the United States.
In the issued statement, the campaign praises Trump at length, and states that he brought the so-called birther issue to its conclusion in 2011 when Obama released his long-form birth certificate. But thats false. Trump didnt stop being a birther in 2011 he continued stoking conspiracy theories after that.
In one 2014 exchange with Irish TV, for instance, he defended his birtherism at length.
You questioned his citizenship during his campaign, and you said afterwards if he produced that long-form birth certificate, youd produce your tax returns. But you didnt do it, did you? asked Ireland TV3s Colette Fitzpatrick in May 2014.
Well, I dont know did he do it? Trump said. If I decide to run for office Ill produce my tax returns. Absolutely. I would love to do that. I did produce a financial statement even though I wasnt even running. I did produce a financial statement and it was shocking to some because it was so much higher than people thought possible.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/trump-questioned-obama-birth-certificate-in-2014-despite-cam?utm_term=.vsae2yyAq#.vnWY0LL3k
VIDEO at link
And I dug these up off Twitter:
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Of course, the "liberal" media will give him yet another pass for this lie (CNN is already saying he "put the issue to bed" tonight), just as they, to date, have never once asked him whatever happened to the team of imaginary investigators he lied and said were in Hawaii, finding "amazing things - things even they do not believe" that he was supposedly going to reveal soon...in 2011.
http://www.salon.com/2011/04/08/trump_hawaii_investigators/
JI7
(89,275 posts)especially when it comes to reporting on US Politics.
vadermike
(1,417 posts)Oh well.. we are fucked they are licking his buttt..... they are going to corwn him President... the debates will be a farce... Hillary will give it the best shes got and so will we.. but we are fucked... its a fucking media lovefest with this asshole .. i am disgusted
duncang
(1,907 posts)Where's your tax returns? Or add it to the other lies.
greyl
(22,990 posts)One jackass spewing absurdities on CNN doesn't mean all the other guests (ahem) deserve your derision. I saw plenty of pushback tonight during the Don Lemon show. It's not as bad as you're making it out to be.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)But, given the number of passes he's received on this issue, I have my doubts.
greyl
(22,990 posts)But I think Trump's birther problem only got stoked up again, and it'll last a few days anyway. On CNN tonight, it was Don Lemon, Brianna Keiler, Bakari Sellers, Van Jones, and another guy I don't remember, all pushing back. Lemon was on the weak side, though, and of course people like Andy Dean and Paris Dennard are literally unbelievable every time they speak to defend the guilty Trump. Can't wait to see Charles Blow's take on it.
http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/09/16/cnns-don-lemon-you-have-give-trump-credit-campaign-press-release-lying-about-his-birther-past/213132
greyl
(22,990 posts)Seth Meyers, Colbert, and Don Lemon all covered this tonight. Colbert was especially fired up and angry about it, and Seth's editorial was as good as Jon Stewart's best rants.
Seth Meyers, using clips from CNN:
Colbert:
So that's good.
videohead5
(2,181 posts)On CNN tonight bringing up what Trump has tweeted about Obama's birth certificate even after Obama released it.CNN was all over this tonight.
SunSeeker
(51,726 posts)bcoley
(3 posts)There was indeed a talking head who disposed of the birther issue with a casual "put to bed" advisory, but later panels teemed with passion and dissension that arose from discussions of the racism at the core of the "movement." I, too, was disgusted by the "put it to bed" line, but birtherism is one child who will not find rest between now and election day.
The aspect of this issue that angers me the most is that many in the media pundit class believe if Trump were ever to acknowledge the truth about the president's birth, all would be forgotten and forgiven. How in the hell can three or four years of active participation in the movement as its inspirational head be swept aside by a one word or sentence acknowledgement? How were those three or four years not disqualifying?
My personal theory - and I hope you will respond to this - is that Trump's showman side has decided that the "right time" to answer the question about the president's birthplace is the first presidential debate. There, in front of the largest audience in ratings history, the showman will humbly tell those female suburban voters he so desperately seeks that he's glad to say he's with them now, and is glad to be able to move on to more "important" matters.... And the pundits will say, "NOW, he's put it behind him!"
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!