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ICYMI.
LOTS of lies expected from donny's presser today:
Fact Checker
Donald Trumps ridiculous claim that Hillary Clinton started the birther movement
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/05/06/donald-trumps-ridiculous-claim-that-hillary-clinton-started-the-birther-movement/
By Michelle Ye Hee Lee May 6
Donald Trump's latest Four-Pinocchio statements
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been repeating some false statements over and over again. Here are the last four of his claims that the Post's Fact Checker gave Four Pinocchios. (Jenny Starrs, Michelle Lee/The Washington Post)
You know who started the birther movement? You know who started it? Do you know who questioned his birth certificate, one of the first? Hillary Clinton. Shes the one that started it. She brought it up years before it was brought up by me.
Donald Trump, interview with CNNs Wolf Blitzer, May 4, 2016
Zombie claims are stubborn things. No matter how many times you debunk them, they keep rising from the dead even eight years later.
Clinton slams Trump's 'insidious' birther movement against Obama
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke at an NAACP dinner in Detroit on May 1. She criticized GOP front-runner Donald Trump's involvement in the birther movement, saying, "We cannot let Barack Obama's legacy fall into Donald Trump's hands." (Reuters)
napkinz
(17,199 posts)underpants
(182,904 posts)riversedge
(70,310 posts)underpants
(182,904 posts)riversedge
(70,310 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,373 posts)to grade Trump's statements.
riversedge
(70,310 posts)https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/05/06/donald-trumps-ridiculous-claim-that-hillary-clinton-started-the-birther-movement/
..............Trump was one of the most high-profile birthers during President Obamas 2012 reelection campaign. Starting early last year, Trump and other Republicans blamed Clinton for starting the birther movement. Our friends at FactCheck.org thoroughly disproved this and found no link between Clinton and the birther rumors. When Trump repeated it months later, PolitiFact and our colleague David Weigel again debunked it.
Not one to be deterred by facts, Trump said it yet again May 4, 2016, the day he officially became the presumptive Republican nominee for president. So we decided its our turn to get to the bottom of leading theories underlying this claim. Of course, the Trump campaign as usual did not respond to our request for information.
The Facts
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)immediately called him on it. On the other hand as a member of the 2016 press corps, also known as the Trump steno pool, he probably said okay fine Donald, lets move on to just how great a president do you think you would be? Thank you sir, I love you!
lapucelle
(18,351 posts)OnDoutside
(19,974 posts)lapucelle
(18,351 posts)Joe and Mika were spreading this morning.
http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/
OnDoutside
(19,974 posts)Washington as Trump called him). It just goes to show that Scarborough rules the roost on that show, and most wouldn't cross him for fear the gravy train would end for them at MSNBC.