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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 07:47 AM Sep 2016

Another Trump staffer acknowledges the truth of Obama’s birthplace — layering it...

Another Trump staffer acknowledges the truth of Obama’s birthplace — layering it with a number of falsehoods

By Philip Bump September 15 at 11:46 PM


On Thursday night, Donald Trump finally acknowledged an obvious, proven fact: President Obama was born in the United States. Or, rather, Trump's campaign said that he acknowledged it, in a statement that was itself riddled with falsehoods.

"Hillary Clinton’s campaign first raised this issue to smear then-candidate Barack Obama in her very nasty, failed 2008 campaign for President," the statement begins. That's untrue — and it's been fact-checked any number of times. In 2011, Politico outlined the origins; in May, our fact checkers dubbed it ridiculous.

"This type of vicious and conniving behavior is straight from the Clinton Playbook. As usual, however, Hillary Clinton was too weak to get an answer," the statement continues. Again, Clinton wasn't looking for an "answer" to the non-question of where Barack Obama was born because her campaign wasn't pressing the issue. Even before the release of Obama's long-form birth certificate, an announcement of Obama's birth was found in a Honolulu newspaper. His 2008 campaign had released a statement of live birth demonstrating where he was born. Anyone who asked the question for whatever reason had the answer in front of them, if they chose to see it.

"Even the MSNBC show 'Morning Joe' admits that it was Clinton’s henchmen who first raised this issue, not Donald J. Trump," the statement goes on. Whether or not someone on "Morning Joe" said it — a show, we will note, that has spent an awful lot of time of late disparaging Trump — that doesn't make it true.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/15/the-trump-campaign-acknowledges-the-truth-of-obamas-birthplace-layering-it-with-a-number-of-falsehoods/?wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1
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Another Trump staffer acknowledges the truth of Obama’s birthplace — layering it... (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2016 OP
One wonders if any of Trump's staffers anoNY42 Sep 2016 #1
I want to hear Donald say it himself with apologies... Mass Sep 2016 #2
 

anoNY42

(670 posts)
1. One wonders if any of Trump's staffers
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 07:50 AM
Sep 2016

recognize the irony of their calling any other campaign "very nasty"...

Mass

(27,315 posts)
2. I want to hear Donald say it himself with apologies...
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 10:06 AM
Sep 2016

No serious reporter should take a campaign statement at face value. Too often, Trump has been saying the opposite of his statements.

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