More than five years after Donald Trump began pushing the
lie that President Obama was not an American, and less than two months before
the 2016 election, he has admitted he lied.
And he couldn’t admit he lied without lying again, trying to
say Hillary Clinton had started the conspiracy lie. Many major publications,
including the Washington Post and New York Times, investigated the claim
against Clinton and found it was a lie.
Trump left his press pool stuck at the airport so they could
not hear him say: “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period.”
He joked about the media didn’t get to his announcement, which served as an
infomercial for a new Trump building.
I”t was not true in 2011, when Donald J. Trump mischievously
began to question President Obama’s
birthplace aloud in television interviews. “I’m starting to think that he was
not born here,” he said.
… “It was never true, any of it. Mr. Obama’s citizenship was
never in question. No credible evidence ever suggested otherwise.
Yet it took Mr. Trump five years of dodging, winking and
joking tosurrender,
finally on Friday, to reality after a remarkable campaign of
relentless deception that tried to undermine the legitimacy of the nation’s
first black president,” the New York Times said.
“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,”
the Washington Post said.
Few expected his base, who he once said would forgive him
for shooting someone on the street, will be angered by this announcement even
though it amounts of clear cut racism.
However, his effort to reach out for support from
African-American votes ended Friday. Whether the media will continue to allow
themselves to be used is another question. He has fooled them dozens or more
times.
He got away with an infomercial a day earlier when he said
he released his medical records, but didn’t. And the media, apparently afraid
of being accused of “fat shaming” Trump barely mentioned his dangerous obesity.
One pundit did say he is 40 pounds over weight or 70. His weight was variously
given as 237 and 267.
CNN Anchor Jake Tapper said: “The mainstream media was
played. Big time, and they know it.
“And they're mad.
“Trump used them for a 29 minute ad for both his hotel and
his campaign.
“That's not all.
“(the) CNN anchor called the spectacle a "political
Rickroll." (A Rickroll is
a bait-and-switch.)
“It’s hard to imagine this as anything other than a political
Rickroll,”
“We were told that this was going to be Donald Trump
addressing something that his top campaign advisers, many people in the
Republican National Committee want him to address, and clear up, and then stop
talking about,” The New Civil Rights Movement reported. Trump took no questions
about the announcement.
Tapper said “Trump has been trafficking in a
“discredited lie for "more than half a decade.”
“It was very clever on one level. On another level, it does
speak to the integrity of the Trump campaign.”
Sadly, the media has given Trump such carte blanche it was
difficult to believe even this grandest of all lies will hurt him. A Clinton
victory will depend on an alliance of groups Trump has insulted, a bigger
bankroll for commercials and a vastly superior game getting out voters.
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