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Originally Posted by hcap
Has been discuses many times and each time that has been shown to be a rotting right wing POS.
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A member of her campaign floated Obama as someone who is "not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and his values." Direct quote from a Clinton aide at that time.
Also, it's been widely reported that Clinton supporters started the birther movement, not Trump.
But of course, that's been scrubbed from the internet....thankfully, we still have the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200218...upporters.html
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It was not until April 2008, at the height of the intensely bitter Democratic presidential primary process, that the touch paper was properly lit.
An anonymous email circulated by supporters of Mrs Clinton, Mr Obama’s main rival for the party’s nomination, thrust a new allegation into the national spotlight — that he had not been born in Hawaii.
“Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy,” it said. “She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth.” Then in August 2008 Phil Berg, an ex-deputy attorney general for Pennsylvania and a renowned conspiracy theorist, filed a lawsuit alleging that Mr Obama was ineligible to be a candidate.
“Obama carries multiple citizenships and is ineligible to run for President of the United States. United States Constitution, Article II, Section 1,” it said.
By then, the Obama campaign had posted a copy of his “certificate of live birth” — a shorter version of the birth certificate, which is accepted as proof of birth from applicants for a US passport.
But the fact it was not the full, original certificate — and that the campaign failed to show the serial number and other details in their scan — meant that the conspiracy theorists were unbowed.
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Trump didn't take up the mantle until 2011, a full three years later.
So you're wrong. Trump DID NOT CONCOCT THE THEORY.
You are WRONG. DEAD WRONG. Just admit it.
He ran with the theory...but he did not invent it.
