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Lies Upon Birther Lies - don't let Trump off the hook for it.
By Robert Schlesinger | Managing Editor
Sept. 16, 2016, at 12:35 p.m.
If Donald Trump is talking, Donald Trump is lying. He lied – lied – in asserting Friday that Hillary Clinton started the birther movement of which he was the highest profile member. He didn't apologize for leading a racist witch-hunt and shouldn't be permitted to so quickly and mendaciously elide what for years was his signature political issue.
Trump had spent the campaign assiduously stonewalling on his birtherism until he gave a classic non-response – "I'll answer that question at the right time," Trump told The Washington Post's Robert Costa on Thursday. "I just don't want to answer it yet." – and all of a sudden it was a thing again. And with Trump pretending to try to appeal to nonwhite voters, he was forced to address the issue squarely, or at least as squarely as he is capable of doing.
So he blamed it all on Clinton. "Hillary Clinton in her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it," he said. This is – let's be very clear – bullshit.
...http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-09-16/trump-lies-in-walking-back-his-birther-lies
Sept. 16, 2016, at 12:35 p.m.
If Donald Trump is talking, Donald Trump is lying. He lied – lied – in asserting Friday that Hillary Clinton started the birther movement of which he was the highest profile member. He didn't apologize for leading a racist witch-hunt and shouldn't be permitted to so quickly and mendaciously elide what for years was his signature political issue.
Trump had spent the campaign assiduously stonewalling on his birtherism until he gave a classic non-response – "I'll answer that question at the right time," Trump told The Washington Post's Robert Costa on Thursday. "I just don't want to answer it yet." – and all of a sudden it was a thing again. And with Trump pretending to try to appeal to nonwhite voters, he was forced to address the issue squarely, or at least as squarely as he is capable of doing.
So he blamed it all on Clinton. "Hillary Clinton in her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it," he said. This is – let's be very clear – bullshit.
...http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-09-16/trump-lies-in-walking-back-his-birther-lies
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