Birther Czar Joseph Farah: I've Been Talking To Donald Trump 'Quite A Bit'

Talking Points Memo ^ | April 14, 2011 | Jillian Rayfield

[2ndDivisionVet]

Looks like Donald Trump is taking his birtherism to the next level -- by soliciting advice from birther czar Joseph Farah.

Kendra Marr of Politico reports that Farah says he and Trump talked every day this week, and he has been advising Trump on the basics of birtherism. "We've have been speaking quite a bit," Farah said.

Since he started maybe-running for president, Trump has repeatedly questioned the legitimacy of President Obama's U.S. birth. Conspiracy theories about Obama's birth certificate have been repeatedly debunked, but that hasn't stopped Trump from speculating that the President's grandparents planted a birth announcement in a Hawaii newspaper to get government benefits like welfare and hospitalization.

According to Marr, Farah said he offered to give Trump a tutorial in birtherism once Trump started publicly asking questions about President Obama's birth certificate. "His people were very quick to respond," Farah said.

If there was any question about Trump's legitimacy as a presidential candidate, his association with Farah should answer it. As the founder and editor of the influential right-wing "news" site WorldNetDaily (WND), Farah has continued to give the birther issue oxygen, long after it was abandoned by mainstream conservatism.

This week Farah admitted WND publishes "some misinformation by columnists." Farah was responding to questions from Salon's Justin Elliott about WND's repeated (and erroneous) claim that Obama has spent $2 million on a legal team to fight the birther lawsuits, a claim that was eventually picked up by Trump.

With Trump, Farah has found someone who gets enough publicity to bring the birther issue back to the forefront. Farah wrote recently on his website: "And so it is in 2011, in the USA, when suddenly, with childlike innocence and a natural-born sense of curiosity, billionaire and would-be presidential candidate Donald Trump shouted from a media pedestal no one could ignore, 'Look, the emperor has no birth certificate!'"

Farah doesn't stop with birtherism, though. He's also questioned whether Obama is a Christian: "Here's the truth: Obama is not a Christian. He doesn't even know what it means to be a Christian."

And he's said a few inflammatory things about gay people too, comparing speaking to the gay conservative group GOProud with addressing the KKK, calling for conservatives to "purge" the movement of GOProud and gay rights supporters, and saying that "German-style Nazism was a pagan, homosexual cult."

Farah and WND have been rejected by the broader conservative movement. They were barred from holding a panel on birther issues at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2009, and haven't been welcomed back since.

This year WND ran an article theorizing that CPAC had been infiltrated by Muslims.

TPM readers may also remember that WND was behind a book about how the Council On American Islamic Relations (CAIR) allegedly used interns to secretly infiltrate Capitol Hill offices, written by a man who posed as a Muslim to get an internship at CAIR. Four House Republicans picked up the claims from the book, called Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America. As Farah describes it, it exposes the "international cabal working on behalf of Saudi-style Shariah law right here in America."

[2ndDivisionVet]

Comments?

[mylife]

I dont think WND or Farah help us a bit.

WND makes a living selling red meat to conspiracy hungry conservatives.

JMO

[LibLieSlayer]

My comment is that when doing research... one interviews subjects close to the source of the investigation.

LLS

[IH8DEMS]

Trying to paint Farah as a right wing extremist and implying those are the only people who would support Trump.

[Mortrey]

GOOD!!!!

[mylife]

There is nothing wrong with looking at these angles, but it seems WND specializes in them.

They have been all over this stuff since before the election.

My problem is that we are beating the same drum, that was ignored earlier.

I havent seen any new compelling evidence.

[mylife]

Jack Cashill does a pretty good job of that.

[tsowellfan]

Since he started maybe-running for president, Trump has repeatedly questioned the legitimacy of President Obama's U.S. birth. Conspiracy theories about Obama's birth certificate have been repeatedly debunked,

I stopped here. This story has been debunked by it's claims about the Birth certificate.

[mylife]

At least the liberal author isn’t trying to tie us to Alex Jones and “Prison Planet”

[tsowellfan]

Have you heard this yet?

“Ultimately, the DPH’s rejection of Obama was due to a refusal by Obama to make available the original documented evidence confirming his eligibility. However, this justifiable lack of certification by the DPH was followed by a covert attempt by the Democratic National Committee, chaired by Nancy Pelosi, to artificially proclaim Obama eligible in Hawaii by submitting two separate, sworn Official Certifications of Nomination (OCON) for Obama, each containing different legal language. Both versions of the OCON were sent to the Hawaiian Office of Elections while only one version was submitted to other states’ Election authorities. The DNC’s fraudulent OCON was an obvious, desperate attempt to control damage and prevent Obama from being disqualified from the Hawaiian ballot and prevent public awareness of the DPH’s refusal to certify Obama’s eligibility.”

[sinanju]

It’s a legitimate inquiry, but most of us really don’t give a damn if Obama was born here or there.

I think most Americans would be more inclined to support a serious inquiry into Obama’s school transcripts and college/law school work. Why would the most brilliant man in America keep them locked up?

The revelation that Stanley Ann Dunham boffed Frank Marshall Davis would be anticlimatic. I’m surprised Obama doesn’t come clean about it. It would probably gain him sympathy votes.

[DiogenesLamp]

I agree. I have not seen any evidence that the “birth certificaTION” issue has been debunked. As far as i’m concerned, Obama hasn’t even established that he’s an American Citizen, let alone a “Natural Born Citizen.”

Show us the REAL birth certificate.

[mylife]

The truth is that the BC story is speculative.

A lot of work was done in the early days to get traction on this line of inquiry and it was fruitless.

Why the sudden resurgence? with no new evidence?

I think we should focus on the everyday BS he is doing to this country that should have him removed from office.

[sten]

czar?? really, the commies need to just stfu

Conspiracy theories about Obama's birth certificate have been repeatedly debunked

they haven't been debunked... just dismissed at every turn, never addressing the issue

if there are no questions, then answer these:

• what hospital was 0bama born at?
• what time?
• how much did he weigh?
• who was the doctor? nurse?
• country of origin of father? (as per docs associated with 0bama's birth)

here's the certification of live birth (different from a certificate of live birth) presented by 0bama's people.

now compare to another certification of live birth from hawaii:

note the missing data on the lower right

and here is a hawaii'n certificate of live birth:

[tsowellfan]

The only evidence is that Obama’s first action as President was to sign an executive order to seal all records of his history.

It’s hard to get any new compelling evidence without Boenher stepping in (like Nancy Pelosi stepped in against Panama born McCain) and demand that Obama release his records.

[tsowellfan]

This would be a good counter post to the next post containing a list of Trumps donations to liberals

[Mortrey]

Here’s some “fresh” info....

IMMIGRATION records exist for Little Stevie Dunham....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vibLN8XP0Q

[mylife]

HIPPA laws may prevent him from revealing every detail.

You cant access my BC.

I know it’s all fishy, but if we dont have traction on this after 3 years why are we still focusing on this issue?

The guy is “in the act” of raping the country and constitution, and we are chasing this rabbit.

[jcsjcm]

I wish he had chosen another route! Donofrio/Apuzzo/Butteredzillion would have been much better choices. I probably would have gone that route instead!

WND does a good service and they have some great information, but sometimes they go over the top and we really don’t need Trump feeling overwhelmed with some items that are way too far out there.

Even Freerepublic is a better source since we tend to sift through the muck and get right to the point! Sometimes we are wrong and we correct ourselves, but it’s a great place for information!

[mylife]

I am sick of chasing this rabbit while Holder and Obama just ignore the constitution and Federal law.

Lets screw him on what is going on before our eyes.
Things we can all document!