Posted on 04/14/2011 6:25:59 PM PDT by 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."
There’s nothing speculative about the BC unless you try to think of reasons why he’s hiding it. That’s where the speculation starts.
Where speculation ends and the fact start is: Obama has yet to release his long form and all of his other past records.
Speculation about the eligibility of the President of the United States is the reason why he needs to release his records. All doubt will be gone when he verifies his eligibility.
You want to see speculation? (this may be true or it may be false... but here’s a result of hiding documents...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2704560/posts
Trump IS getting info from other sources...
P.I. Susan Daniels Explains Obama’s Social Security Number Fraud
(in the “video”—it’s a phone interview—Susan Daniels says she has sent a package to Trump’s people...he’s getting info from so many other sources that another Freeper said NOT to e-mail him at the address that was posted for a few days...it’s overloaded; he gave an address to mail info to Trump.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZlaIS5o9Vs&feature=player_embedded
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I hadn’t seen this certification of live birth! You are correct there is missing data. I also love the fact that a stamp is there right on the front of the document as it should be.
Who in their right mind places a stamp on the back of a document? That is unless they don’t want to certify what is written on the front.
It’s not just his birth certificate that’s the problem as this Private Investigator says
I would prefer we document the crap he is doing before our eyes.
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It will take someone like Trump with the guts and resources to expose the Marxist/Muslim isurper.
The evidence is there.
Go Trump!
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“This week Farah admitted WND publishes “some misinformation by columnists.” “
Back in my day, that was called lying.
I have no doubt she is a spin meister
So how much HAS Obama spent fighting this?
I have no doubt she is a spin meister
I aint taking her side.
It is unresolved. I for one, have not forgotten it at all. The very notion that a state privacy law should be permitted to trump an Article of the U.S. Constitution is the most extreme case of “tail wagging the dog” of which I have ever heard!
Arizona and Oklahoma are about to make this story serious. What they are doing is what should have been done in all 50 states. “Won’t let us see your REAL birth certificate? You don’t get on the ballot! “
It isn’t about the birth certificate.
It’s about re-energizing the Tea Party which many thought was dead after the 2010 election.
The Donald may be quirky but he has balls, big brass ones and nothing to lose by calling Obama out. That’s got to scare the hell out of the man child.
I’m not on the Donald bandwagon just yet and believe there are better candidates however America needs a businessman who isn’t afraid of making tough decisions.
He's already admitted on tape that he was a f**k up in school, goofing off in class, not taking coursework seriously, and doping.
The existing evidence is staggering. O sealed all of his records by executive order as soon as he was sworn in - why? 30 years ago the main stream journalists would have cracked this case already and O would have gone the way of Nixon...the liberal colleges have done a very good job of creating Marxist journalists who parrot the party line instead of digging out the truth. Sorry, but O has lots to hide and so far the main stream media has done a great job of helping him...
He hasn’t spent a dime - we on the other hand have spent a lot on his defense lawyers fighting each case. I’ve seen a lot of the briefs and I’m sure these lawyers are not working for free.
Bambi doesn’t have to pay for his own defense, the taxpayers pay for it!
Are you aware that the Hawaii Department of Health has indirectly confirmed in 2 different ways that the Factcheck COLB is a forgery?
One of the ways is by indirectly confirming that Obama’s BC was amended in 2006, which would have to be noted on a COLB from their office printed on June 6, 2007 - but isn’t noted on the Factcheck COLB. That amendment renders the BC legally invalid.
The other way was by confirming that the BC# for Oahu BC’s was always given by the HDOH office on the “date filed”. Because the Factcheck COLB has a “date filed” 3 days earlier than the Nordyke BC’s but was given a number later (higher) than theirs, the Factcheck COLB is known as a forgery. Either the BC#, the “date filed”, or both have been altered.
The fact that Obama didn’t even know a valid BC#/”date filed” combination to use on his forged COLB strongly suggests that he has never had a valid HAWAII birth certificate to copy that information from.
This information has basically been out there since January of 2010 when I posted it on my blog. Were you aware of that information? If not, a good question is why you haven’t heard it. Even WND is so scared of being called “conspiracy theorists” that they won’t touch any evidence of the law-breaking by government officials - who know that Obama is not Constitutionally eligible and have been lying publicly, breaking laws and rules, and altering records on his behalf.
And I don’t say any of those things lightly. This is based on what I can document. Documentation is posted at my blog, starting at http://www.butterdezillion.wordpress.com
I am now inclined to believe bo is Malcom X’s prodigy or some one else in Wash State. He may have been born in Wash or Vancouver. The grand parents just sought some kind of legitimacy for the kid and met BHO Sr and paid him off for use of his name. He was probably born in early 1961 which explains why Stanley Ann was able to be in school in Wash State Aug 19, 1961.The date of birth announcement was after the grand parents had hooked up with BHO Sr. There is no BC but various amendments to his history as in adoption and foreign status while under 18 is a legal hodgepodge.
The forgotten lessons of the 2004 attempt at stealing an election.
Look.
IMHO we do great work debunking BS
Freeper Buckhead sniffed the truth fast on Dan Rather.
It’s just My opinion that this birther thing is a cold trail and is now working to our detriment.
The fact that Trump is selling tickets and renewing interest doesnt make me want to vote for him.
I want a candidate that will focus on the crimes underway, not the speculated ones that have been widely dismissed.
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