Birtherism was why so many Republicans liked Trump in the first place
By Michael Tesler September 19 at 5:00 AM
Birtherism quickly became a major campaign issue last week when Donald Trump refused to say that President Obama was born in the United States. Instead, he told The Washington Post’s Robert Costa, “I’ll answer that question at the right time. I just don’t want to answer it yet.”
Apparently the right time was Friday morning. After five years of raising doubts about the president’s birthplace, the Republican presidential nominee finally admitted that “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period.”
The campaign of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, however, had already seized upon the opportunity to remind voters that Trump had long been a leader of the “racist birther movement.” Or as Clinton tweeted Thursday night:
Hillary Clinton ✔
@HillaryClinton
President Obama’s successor cannot and will not be the man who led the racist birther movement. Period.
11:20 PM - 15 Sep 2016
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