Trump: Bill Ayers Wrote Obama's Book! & "Look, he was born 'Barry Soetero."

[Pirate Smile]

Trump: Bill Ayers Wrote Obama's Book!

During an interview aired Friday night on Sean Hannity's TV show, Donald Trump branched out beyond his simple commitment to birtherism as a political issue -- and also advocated vigorously for another conspiracy theory regarding President Obama, alleging that Bill Ayers was the true author of Obama's 1995 book, Dreams From My Father!

Trump has previously talked about this particular conspiracy theory. But in this case, it was on the most high-profile platform yet, in the form of a featured extended interview on Fox News. The long discredited theory has also been propagated by the right-wing web site World Net Daily, whose founder Joseph Farah claims to have been talking with Trump "quite a bit."

During the Hannity interview, Hannity and Trump speculated that Obama's real birth certificate might contain information he does not want the public to see, such as information stating that he was a Muslim. Trump then segued into questioning Obama's whole background.
"Look, he was born 'Barry Soetero.' Somewhere along the line, he changed his name," said Trump -- referring to the surname of Obama's mother's second husband, Lolo Soetoro, whom she married four years after Obama was born. "I heard he had terrible marks, and he ends up in Harvard. He wrote a book that was better than Ernest Hemingway, but the second book was written by an average person."

"You suspect Bill Ayers?" said Hannity.

"I said, Bill Ayers wrote the book," Trump replied.

Trump also added during the discussion: "He was best friends with Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers was a super-genius. And a lot of people have said he wrote the book. Well recently, as you know last week, Bill Ayers came out and said he did write the book."
"Barack Obama wouldn't be president -- and, you know, I wrote many best sellers, and also, number one bestsellers including The Art of the Deal. So I know something about writing. And I want to tell you, the guy that wrote the first book didn't write the second book . Obama made a big mistake when he wrote the second book. Because the second book was not Ernest Hemingway, it was about 37 classes below. So, the first book is Ernest Hemingway-plus. The second book was written by somebody that was much more average."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/trump-bill-ayers-wrote-obamas-book-video.php?ref=fpb

The lunacy WILL continue and it will Grow. :crazy:

This fool, who thinks he is so brilliant, has actually bought into all of these old, idiotic conspiracies. Such a buffoon.

It is simultaneously hilarious and infuriating.

[Unvanguard]

1. Please, please, please let him win the Republican nomination. n/t

[SkyDaddy7]

10. You have far more confidence in the American People than I!! nt.

[Faygo Kid]

2. And the FReepers will love him unconditonally.

Trump will get the GOP nod unless Fox derails him.

[Ian David]

9. The FReepers will hate him because his daughter converted to Judaism. n/t

[Dkc05]

51. Tramp is a FRAYER............

Look it up.

[jenmito]

11. I just browsed at Freeperville. They're on to Trump! They have links posted showing his

support of Hillary during the last election, his contributions to Weiner, Schumer, Reid, Emanuel, etc., and his positions on the issues-pro-choice, pro-gay rights, pro-gun control, etc. And they discovered this from Mark Levin's radio show. They say they love Trumo for doing this birther stuff, but they don't believe for a SECOND that he's a conservative/teabagger, and most say they would NOT vote for him.

[Pirate Smile]

12. He actually does seem like some of those Hillary supporters who just couldn't accept Obama and

bought into every conspiracy theory. It was a small percentage but they were potent - and some are still around.

The most bizarre part of this is that Trump is just learning of and buying into conspiracy crap that is years and years old and was long ago debunked. He treats it like it is new. I want to know what the people around him are doing? They have to see what an absolute fool and idiot he is making of himself - along with what a hateful bastard he sounds like. It is all so incredibly bizarre.

[jenmito]

13. I agree...

and it's fun to see the freepers "outing" him as a "'Rat' in Birther/Conservative clothing," asking where he was 2 years ago when the tea party was speaking out about Obama. I think he is NOT really buying into the birther stuff, but he knows it's getting him attention, probably for his show.

[JTFrog]

57. Bought into? They started the birther shit.

They came up with the fake Kenyan birth certificate. Hillary and her he's not Muslim "as far as I know..." horseshit.

Yea, they didn't need to "buy" into anything.

[trud]

58. Hill's folk

They should be thrilled about Obama, except for his gender. Is there anyway in which their policies differed during the campaign where he hasn't changed to hers?

[TheBigotBasher]

65. A billionaire PUMA

well they fail at everything

[walldude]

3. You know the best thing about that appearance is

2 nights before that Hannity had Ann Coulter on pushing the mem that only the liberal media was reporting on Trumps birtherism because they want the Republicans to look like fools. Thank god Places like Fox News aren't helping Trump push his birtherism. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Ozymanithrax]

4. President Trump would be the same person as President Obama

I know that is true because I've seen the pictures that morph Bush to Obama, which makes them the same person. If that is true, President Obama will just morph into President Trump.

I'll bet they are the same person now. I mean, have you ever seen them together in real life? It doesn't matter if you've seen them together on Televison. I saw the White Hosue and the Empire State building blown up on TV. The can do anything on TV.

We are a nation ruled by some evil alien who, in the guise of King George of England, morphed into President George Washington and has continued to morph into every President since then.

And that means that Obama wasn't born in the Kenya, but on Llyrdis, the fourth planet orbiting Aldebaran where Cthulu lives, when Cthulu isn't dead in a city under the pacific.

[Capn Sunshine]

27. I'm glad you cleared that up

Certainly many DUers agree with your subject line, which is one of the problems with this place.

[Ozymanithrax]

44. I don't see different opinions as a problem...

Let them think whatever they want. Some see Corpranazi's under every rock. I see the world as a little more complex than that.

[Fuddnik]

30. Of course! All of our presidents are reptilian shape shifters.

A nut I used to work with, explained it all to me. So is the British royal family.

[Ozymanithrax]

43. Reptilians are a myth. I know that because an Leprechaun told me...

so.

Trans cosmic gods, however, are real.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Trump's going for the full-on "I'm a racist motherfucker" line, I see

Bill Ayers never said anything of the kind, and the charge of having a white man write a black person's writing goes back to Phyliss Wheatley. This is real bottom of the barrel racist stuff.

[Pirate Smile]

6. I know this whole thing cracks Bill Ayers up and he likes to play with the crazy people so he'll say

things to get them all in a twitter.

I never was interested enough to really bother reading the details.

[bigdarryl]

7. He's going nowhere but down hill all this Obama racist shit is going to get people tired

[Ian David]

8. He's like the Neocon Jesse Ventura. n/t

[GoCubsGo]

14. Our President is a time traveller!

He's the son of a man his mother met AFTER his birth! Amazing.

[mainer]

42. no, it makes his mother the time traveler!

She went 4 years into the future, had sex with Lolo Soetoro, and then returned to give birth four years earlier.

[Beaverhausen]

15. My god I had no idea Trump was this gullible

really- how did he get to where he is when he is this clueless?

[kwassa]

16. Trump isn't gullible, he is calculating ...

He knows this stuff is bullshit, he doesn't care, he is trying to build a base, and will do anything to achieve that.

[NYC Liberal]

18. I think I'm starting to believe what was posited in another thread...

that he is doing this to try to hurt the cons.

He's an opportunist and not loyal to one party or another (much like Michael Bloomberg is) but that doesn't mean he isn't sabotaging the Republicans.

Or maybe he IS just nuts.

[flpoljunkie]

19. Nah, Trump's just a self-promoting jerk who said he supported Dems in NY because it's so blue

Trump is all about Trump.

[harun]

63. He is doing it to win over the Puke base. He knows it is BS.

[Mz Pip]

17. I'm almost starting to believe

that Trump is doing this to make the GOP look stupid. Given his previous support of Democratic candidates it's sort of hard to imagine he had some "Come to Jesus" moment with Teabaggery.

He's out there spouting the most stereotypical birther teabag nonsense and getting all kinds of press for it. It's like he's airing their dirty laundry. He's drawn them in and is getting their support.

Whether or not it is intentioned he's shining a light on the cockroaches.

If we didn't have more pressing things to be focusing on I would really be enjoying the sideshow.

[gordianot]

20. I have also been wondering the same thing Trump is trying to make the GOP sound stupid.

It is not very difficult to make the GOP sound stupid when the radical conservatives serve up a plate of sheer ignorance every day. Given Trumps quick turn in political leaning in recent days I have been wondering just why he has made this turn. Some say it is to boost the ratings of his pathetic television show which is possible. In the immortal words of another ( and very effective politician) he is doing this because he can, What is the our outcome in a critical period when the GOP needs to develop a viable candidate to run in 2012? Trump is sucking all of the proverbial oxygen out of the room very early. He is playing to the most ignorant elements of the Republican Party laying out all of the stupidity that has emerged from the far right Tea Party types. Any one else uttering the same bullshit from the far right is going to sound like a Donald Trump clone. Let an opportunistic, self rightous, demagouge steal from the GOP. Surely Trump knows he is really helping the Democratic Party specifically Barak Obama. For the first time Obama is in a position to make Birther jokes about himself. My bet is Trump knows very well who stands to benefit from his ranting. Trump's sincerity lines sounds to me like the boast monolouge from a professional wrestler before the match. The outcome is similar Trump got some immediate (preplanned?) media exposure.

[CakeGrrl]

36. "Shining a light on the cockroaches" - that's exactly what I like about this.

And the MSM is all too happy to oblige because it's sensationalist.

[trud]

59. No it;'s not a fake by Trump

How could he believe he'd make the birthers look stupid? It has to be impossible for them to look any stupider than they are.

It's Trump wanting the spotlight. Some people are odd that way, who knows why.

[krawhitham]

21. BREAKING: TRUMP thinks Bill Ayers is better than Ernest Hemingway

[Cass]

61. Lol, love it!!

[madmom]

22. Trump keeps talking about how brilliant he is and how he is a genius and he knows so

much about everything...this sounds to me like someone who is trying to get approval from the masses. Why does he have to keep reminding himself (and everyone else) that he is so smart? Really if he was as smart as he thinks he is, wouldn't he see that people are laughing AT him not WITH him? What a douche :eyes:

I learned a long time ago when someone has to keep reminding you how smart he/she is....they aren't.

[Ikonoklast]

24. Trump was smart enough to inherit hundreds of millions of dollars.

If he was only smart enough to inherit his Dad's watch, no one on this planet would have known who he is.


But he may have gone bankrupt the same number of times, however.

[Fuddnik]

31. But, it takes a special genius to bankrupt his own casino.

[Ikonoklast]

35. Hey, you try it.

Saddling your own concern with a mountain of debt while looting it of value, without getting thrown in the clink for fraud ain't easy.

[PatSeg]

23. Trump has to keep his name and face in the news

until May 22nd (season finale) and I think he knows that the birther crap is wearing thin, so he has to keep throwing new lunatic theories out there. He has over a month to go, so it should be interesting to see what else he comes up with between now and then. Well, maybe not "interesting".

[and-justice-for-all]

25. Talking themselves futher down the diluted rabbit hole...nt

[toddwv]

26. Here's the thing...

While only a fringe element truly believe most of the stuff, there is a HUGE contingent of people who just simply hate Obama and love to see other people lambasting him in public. Hell, just take a look here around DU to see.

So while Trump's latest meanderings appear to be the desperate "look at mes" of someone wanting attention, in fact, there's a significant portion of those who don't believe the crap that he's shilling but love gloating because someone is putting President Obama down.

[area51]

28. Wow.

His birth certificate might contain "information stating that he was a Muslim."

WTF? You aren't born a certain religion. Typical stupid republinazis.

[Pirate Smile]

32. We know - because the state of Hawaii has told us - that there is not even a spot to put down the

religion of the baby on the Birth Certificate/COLB - including the Long Form BC that the state has.

They allude to this being the "secret' Obama is trying to hide but not only have the Hawaiian authorities said it is not included on the COLB/Long Form but that there isn't even a spot for it.

[chrisa]

48. LOLOLOL

This whole thing is making me lol, and it's even more funny that it happened on "Hannity."

[GameOn]

29. was Barack Obama running for anything during the 1st book? The 2nd book was politician Obama.

The 1st book seemed to have the kind of honesty that someone not thinking about politics at all would write. Oh, Trump is an idiot

[Pirate Smile]

34. I should have posted my post about the two books to you because you actually brought it up - but I

didn't see it yet.

Check out post 33.

[OhioBlue]

45. exactly. n/t

[Pirate Smile]

33. Interesting tweet on this ridiculous crap from Walter Shapiro:

"waltershapiroPD Conspiracy-mad Trump claims Obama didn't write his first book. It's the second that's dubious - Obama thanks 25 people for manuscript help. "

http://twitter.com/waltershapiroPD/status/59651001191370752

I thought that was kind of an obvious yet, so far, unsaid point.

The more policy/political book he wrote after he became a Senator had people doing research, helping, blah, blah, blah.

That was the book that wasn't as personal or uniquely his own voice as the first one was.

[Thumper79]

37. I think Trump knows exactly what he's doing.

Trump gets so much attention for his loony tune life. He knows nothing he says is true but it gets him more press. He's not running for president and behind the scenes, he's laughing that people are so gullible. This is all due to Trump's 'show boating.' Trump just gave $50,000 to R. Emanuel for his mayoral bid. Trump will not allowing anyone to see his finances. He says he will, but then he knows he's not running so he'll never have to. I know he will make up some more tidbits that he knows outright aren't true but he wants to be a wacko to get more press and viewers to his reality show. I will agree that Trump is a buffoon, but he's playing a lot of people like a fine tuned violin. :tinfoilhat:

[Empowerer]

38. Funny that he assumes the "Hemingway-like" book, not the average one was written by a white guy

I guess that's because one of "the blacks" couldn't have demonstrated such insightful and eloquent writing.

This attitude is so common and such a familiar one for most black folk that I know - we're assumed to be unable to measure up and when we prove that we can, certain white folks surmise - often out loud - that the superior work product couldn't be ours but was instead produced for us by a white person.

Good Lord - why is this guy being taken seriously by anyone!?

[alcibiades_mystery]

39. I should just note that it was the Hillaryites who started this particular bit of racist nonsense

Just sayin'...

[mainer]

40. Huh? Obama was born "Barry Soetoro," not "Barack Obama"??

And later changed his name to Obama?

He was born with the name of a man his mother didn't meet until four years later? Is this a misquote or is Trump really that confused?

[CakeGrrl]

41. That's one of the original birther canards

Somewhere there's a lawsuit brought up against "Barry Soetoro" for illegally occupying the office of the Presidency or some crap.

That's why I'm with those who wonder if Trump's doing this to hang this stuff around the Republicans' necks like cement bricks. He's bringing out all the old birther/'bagger chestnuts. And now he's urging the congressional Repubs to keep up the rallying cry?

But why? The state of Hawaii is WAY over this crap and has said as much. Everything he's said can be disproven, yet he's polling the highest among potential Repub nominees.

It's as if he's leading them over a cliff...

:evilgrin:

[JaneQPublic]

46. Ever hear the old line, "If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?"?

With Trump, the question is, "If you're so rich, why are you so dumb?"

[chrisa]

47. Trump is such a dumbass. HE WASN'T BORN BARRY SOETERO!!!

His last name became Soetero because his mother remarried in Indonesia. His father was "Barack Obama Sr."

What an idiot.

[LeftishBrit]

49. 'Soetero'? So now he's the son of his *step*father?

[Dkc05]

50. Show me proof........

Eom

[DinahMoeHum]

52. Trump - dumbfuck douchebag with a toupee. . .

and Daddy's money - don't forget that. He's NOT a self-made man, no matter how much he tries to market himself as such.

You have to be born a Donald Trump. Anybody can be a Barack Obama.

[KalicoKitty]

53. Is Rick Perry from New World Order...

the same creepy Rick Perry who is governor of Texas?

This was posted by Rick Perry, written by an ex IRS investigator: "SURPRISE! SURPRISE!…OBAMA IS A LIFETIME CRIMINAL!"
http://nwodaily.com/2011/04/surprise-surprise-obama-is-a-lifetime-criminal/

This disusting piece of crap has been posted on Facebook.

Thanks for a reply!

:yoiks:

[fried eggs]

54. Of all the things they think barack obama was able to do,

How do they explain him not changing his name to something more american sounding? I mean, if he could fake everything else, why not the name too?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

55. The perfect GOP candidate! Birther extraordinaire!

He's got all the raving loony attributes. Does he believe they landed on the moon?

[Mimosa]

56. Unlikely he was born B.Soetoro since his mom hadn't met Soetoro yet.

BUT it is likely Obama's name had been legally changed when he was adopted by Lolo Soetoro. Who knows when -or even if- Obama legally changed it back. He's never said he did.

[Pirate Smile]

62. Why are you buying into this garbage?

[Mimosa]

64. I'm not 'buying' anything.

I'm having some name problems myself right now very similar to what Barack Obama may have experienced when he started using the name Barack Obama instead of Barry Soetoro.

I was born when Social Security numbers were not issued at birth. One applied when one got a job for which taxes were deducted. So in the late 1960s I was able to get a S.S. card bearing the name I preferred not the one on my birth certificate. All my driver's licenses have been in my chosen first name not my birth certificate first name. The last name has remained the same.

Now at the Dept of Motor vehicles they are telling me i need to get my name legally changed to renew my D.L. (now expired because they wouldn't renew it!)

I've learned quite abit about name change issues. I wonder when/if Barack Obama legally changed his name to barack Obama. His mother had obviously had it changed when her husband Lolo Soetoro adopted Barack.

[Cass]

60. WTF???

So Obama was born and raised in Kenya, but is the son of his Indonesian step-father. Yeah that makes SO much more sense.

I think all the spray tan and hair gel is killing his brain cells. :crazy:

[LynneSin]

66. I swear I keep expecting to see links to "The Onion" for this crap

:scared: