Four-Pinocchios--> Donald Trump’s ridiculous claim that Hillary Clinton started the birther movement

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ICYMI.

LOTS of lies expected from donny's presser today:








Fact Checker
Donald Trump’s 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. She’s the one that started it. She brought it up years before it was brought up by me.”

— Donald Trump, interview with CNN’s 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)

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1. Deplorable Donald

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2. Link ?

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4. Inserted into OP now.

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9. Okay thanks.

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10. Have a nice day.

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3. There simply are not enough Pinocchios to

to grade Trump's statements.

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5. Also PolitiFact and FactCheck.org Also Debunked this............

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 Obama’s 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 it’s 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

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6. I am sure having diligently done his research, Wolf Shitzer or some other press Trump toadie

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!

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7. Joe Scarborough was pushing this lie this morning.

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11. Yes that scumbucket pushed it hard

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13. Bob Somerby did a column today about the falsehood

Joe and Mika were spreading this morning.

http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/

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14. Thanks for that. Yes I too was really surprised with the moral cowardice of Ratner and Robinson (or

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.

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8. Trump attempts to hang his hat on "Hillary did it first" will fall flat. n/t

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12. This is a disgusting man....NT