Politico, November 2011
Just when it appeared that public interest was fading, celebrity developer Donald Trump has revived the theory that President Barack Obama was born overseas and helped expose the depth to which the notion has taken root—a New York Times poll Thursday found that a plurality of Republicans believe it.
If you haven’t been trolling the fever swamps of online conspiracy sites or opening those emails from Uncle Larry, you may well wonder: Where did this idea come from? Who started it? And is there a grain of truth there?
The answer lies in Democratic, not Republican politics, and in the bitter, exhausting spring of 2008. At the time, the Democratic presidential primary was slipping away from Hillary Clinton and some of her most passionate supporters grasped for something, anything that would deal a final reversal to Barack Obama. (See: Bachmann: Birther issue settled)
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Let the POS get away with pulling the biggest hoax in U.S history? He’s paid lawyers millions to seal his records.
The birth certificate was a forgery.
Obama’s legacy as president to very precious to him and his fellow rats.
Trump should expose him after he is elected and let him go down in history for what he is: a foreign born usurper/traitor’
Vet him. Destroy his precious legacy!
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