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Binkie The Clown

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Sun Sep 18, 2016, 12:21 AM Sep 2016

CNN: No. Hillary did not start the "birther" movement.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/17/politics/hillary-clinton-birther-conspiracy/

No, Hillary Clinton did not start the 'birther' movement

By Gregory Krieg, CNN

Updated 8:20 PM ET, Sat September 17, 2016

(CNN)After more than five years of touting "birther" conspiracy theories, Donald Trump on Friday finally conceded a simple truth: "President Barack Obama was born in the United States."
He did not apologize or speak to his own role in spreading the falsehood, which many people see as an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of America's first black president. Instead, Trump offered a curt admission tainted by yet another demonstrably false charge: that Hillary Clinton and her 2008 primary campaign "started" the racially charged smear.

Both FactCheck.org (working with CNN's Jake Tapper) and PolitiFact have refuted the suggestion on multiple occasions. But the revisionist telling that Clinton was somehow involved persists, thanks in large part to Trump. He has peddled it for years and is now promoting it to deflect attention from his own leading role in advancing the lie. (My emphasis)


Amazing! Corporate media using the word "lie" in referring to what Trump said. That must be a first.
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