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Another Trump staffer acknowledges the truth of Obama’s birthplace — layering it (w/falsehoods)
WaPo ^ | September 15, 2016 | Philip Bump

Posted on 09/15/2016 9:54:19 PM PDT by Seizethecarp

On Thursday night, Donald Trump finally acknowledged an obvious, proven fact: President Obama was born in the United States. Or, rather, Trump's campaign said that he acknowledged it, in a statement that was itself riddled with falsehoods.

"Hillary Clinton’s campaign first raised this issue to smear then-candidate Barack Obama in her very nasty, failed 2008 campaign for President," the statement begins. That's untrue — and it's been fact-checked any number of times. In 2011, Politico outlined the origins; in May, our fact checkers dubbed it ridiculous.

"This type of vicious and conniving behavior is straight from the Clinton Playbook. As usual, however, Hillary Clinton was too weak to get an answer," the statement continues. Again, Clinton wasn't looking for an "answer" to the non-question of where Barack Obama was born because her campaign wasn't pressing the issue. Even before the release of Obama's long-form birth certificate, an announcement of Obama's birth was found in a Honolulu newspaper. His 2008 campaign had released a statement of live birth demonstrating where he was born. Anyone who asked the question for whatever reason had the answer in front of them, if they chose to see it.

"Even the MSNBC show 'Morning Joe' admits that it was Clinton’s henchmen who first raised this issue, not Donald J. Trump," the statement goes on. Whether or not someone on "Morning Joe" said it — a show, we will note, that has spent an awful lot of time of late disparaging Trump — that doesn't make it true.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; birthers; clinton; hawaii; hillary; hillarybirther; naturalborncitizen; obama; trump; wapo
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1 posted on 09/15/2016 9:54:19 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
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To: LucyT; null and void; Cold Case Posse Supporter; Flotsam_Jetsome; circumbendibus; Fantasywriter; ...

Ping to latest Trump campaign attempt to distance Trump from “birther” issue after Hillary comes back from sick leave attacking trying to rile up blacks on the issue...


2 posted on 09/15/2016 9:58:31 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
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To: Seizethecarp

A blatant lie. Earlier today I checked to find the origin of the birther rumor, and multiple articles planted the blame squarely on HRC supporters during her 2008 failed campaign. Multiple articles from multiple sources, and all were what I would call Liberal sources.


3 posted on 09/15/2016 9:59:26 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (America IS sick, and tired of the Clintons. It's time to say goodbye.)
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To: Seizethecarp

Barack was born in Hawaii, but the cover up is that his real daddy is Frank Marshall Davis. That’s why the BCs are problematic. Real BCs with the papa altered.


4 posted on 09/15/2016 10:00:22 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: Seizethecarp

The instant I saw it was WAPO, I knew to be prepared for a complete barf fest.


5 posted on 09/15/2016 10:01:01 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Seizethecarp

I didn’t realize Obama was running again if he is will he show us his layered photo-shopped BC?


6 posted on 09/15/2016 10:01:31 PM PDT by funfan
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To: rockinqsranch

It would seem that the author of this article is trying to out lie the biggest liar in politics.


7 posted on 09/15/2016 10:02:21 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Seizethecarp

“Even before the release of Obama’s long-form birth certificate, an announcement of Obama’s birth was found in a Honolulu newspaper. His 2008 campaign had released a statement of live birth demonstrating where he was born. Anyone who asked the question for whatever reason had the answer in front of them, if they chose to see it.”

The Washington Post spin.


8 posted on 09/15/2016 10:03:04 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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If Frank Marshall Davis is his daddy, he is a NBC, unfortunately, but may not unfortunately.


9 posted on 09/15/2016 10:03:07 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: UCANSEE2

Absolutely.


10 posted on 09/15/2016 10:03:10 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (America IS sick, and tired of the Clintons. It's time to say goodbye.)
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To: BigEdLB; shibumi
What's your name?

Who's your daddy?


11 posted on 09/15/2016 10:07:31 PM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To: Seizethecarp

this is na skunk issue. get the hell away from it fast.


12 posted on 09/15/2016 10:08:00 PM PDT by RC one
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To: Seizethecarp
Hysterical. WaPost thought they had Trump in a birther story they could run with like a Khan controversy. But their press release was a thing of beauty, blaming Hillary and accusing her of starting the movement. Now they're forced to fact check a press release. 😂😂😂
13 posted on 09/15/2016 10:08:07 PM PDT by nhwingut (Trump-Pence 2016 - Blow Up The GOPe)
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To: Seizethecarp

Morning Joe.
“Morning Joe: Hypocritical Clinton started Obama-Muslim rumors during 2008 campaign”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73QBivEbGYo

Scarborough: This started by Hillary Clinton and the Clinton team. The honest truth...

“Morning Joe And Mika REMIND Everyone Who ACTUALLY Began Birtherism!! “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV0TUnGDxeQ


14 posted on 09/15/2016 10:08:32 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

They must have really had to work hard to get that out.


15 posted on 09/15/2016 10:13:08 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: nhwingut

My tinfoil hat conspiracy theory is that the birther stories are true, that Obama or his minions got to Trump and informed him in words of one syllable or less that if he didn’t back off he was going down for a dirt nap, and did it in a way that made Trump realize they were deadly serious.

Therein lies the roots of Trump’s presidential ambitions. His thinking goes like this. Obama is the President, NOW. He controls all those nifty secret things NOW. He can take me out if I keep this up.... BUT...

If I become President, I will have all those nifty secret things and I will be immune to his threats. That means, post election, I CAN STOMP HIM LIKE A COCKROACH.

Now, if you will excuse me, the tinfoil is getting a bit thin over my left frontal lobe, so I am going to add another layer....


16 posted on 09/15/2016 10:13:39 PM PDT by Ronin (Blackface or bolt-ons, it's the same fraud. - Norm Lenhart)
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To: Seizethecarp

“Fox News: Hillary Clinton Is The Original Birther “

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIX1hpahzaA


17 posted on 09/15/2016 10:13:48 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Seizethecarp

After Hussein gets out of the white mosque, the MSM vultures will swoop down on his life’s history and will come up with much unexpected information.


18 posted on 09/15/2016 10:15:56 PM PDT by 353FMG (AMERICA MATTERS)
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To: Red Steel

You can tell Steve Bannon is in charge of counter-attacking Hillary now. He knows how to use their own “Rules for Radicals” against them.


19 posted on 09/15/2016 10:22:39 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
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To: BigEdLB

Morning Blow probably regrets it now since Trump using own words. LoL.

And Hillary in 2008 spoke some truth a rarity. ;)


20 posted on 09/15/2016 10:26:18 PM PDT by Red Steel
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