CNN's Acosta: Trump Thinks Standing by Obama Birtherism Would've Helped Him in Election

[highplainsdem]

Source: Mediaite

So not only is President Trump‘s birtherism back in the news this week, but now CNN is reporting that Trump thinks he’d have done better if he never held that press conference saying Barack Obama was born in the U.S.

This is what the New York Times reported yesterday:

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But on CNN tonight, Jim Acosta reported the following:

“According to a source who is close to the White House… apparently President Trump, ever since that day when he finally acknowledged that Barack Obama was born in the United States, was questioning, and has questioned since then, the politics of that decision, meaning that he feels he would have done even better in the November election last year had he just stood his ground and insisted that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. He feels he would have performed even better in the polls.”

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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-acosta-trump-thinks-standing-by-obama-birtherism-wouldve-helped-him-in-election/

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Video at the link.

[oberliner]

1. He got elected with the Access Hollywood tape out

It still is mind-boggling to me that that did not end his campaign.

But, lesson learned.

There is nothing Trump could say or do that would lose his supporters (or make the Republicans in Congress walk away from him).

[trueblue2007]

2. ANOTHER REASON I HATE HIM

[Freethinker65]

3. He is correct. With the electoral college and micro targeting being more racist would have helped

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

4. I still think he never expected to win.

And was (and is) wholly unprepared for what the job actually entails. I have zero proof that the election is fraudulent, but...



Comments like this are telling, in my opinion. He thought that he'd win the popular vote. He knows he didn't. He knows that Clinton was the more popular candidate, and he won on something he sees as a technicality (even though it's built into the fabric of the country).

[LeftinOH]

5. He DID run on the birther crap..until September 2016, and he won.

So- it worked.

[Zambero]

7. Chris Matthews once remaked

that Trump's years-long birther campaign alone provided him with a level of support to get half the GOP delegates needed for the nomination. The rest no doubt were corralled by way of his reality show "status" and by attacking his primary debate opponents with a variety of insults and belittling nicknames (Lyin' Ted, Little Marco, Low Energy Jeb etc.). No substantive disussion of issues was ever required.

[Turbineguy]

6. Which is another way of saying,

"There are more idiots in the U.S. than are dreamt of in your philosophy!"

[L. Coyote]

8. Mental illness.

[TexasBushwhacker]

9. So he's saying he wasn't quite racist enough?

I hope Mueller blows things wide open soon. I'm tired of Trump's "another day, another deflection" while our country goes to hell.

[Gothmog]

10. Trump is delusional

[jgmiller]

11. Sadly he's probably right although

I do wonder if he had stuck by it and Hillary's campaign hadn't been so clueless they could have used that to rally the black vote in the states she should have won. Again it would have required outreach that seemed to be beyond them though so it's a moot point.

[Aristus]

12. Gaslighting the Hillary Clinton campaign is not a good idea around here.

We are the Democratic Underground, not the Republican Underground, or the Independent Underground.