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Trump Pulls Out His Birther Bag of Tricks
The New York Times ^ | Aug. 6, 2024 | Jamelle Bouie, Opinion Columnist

Posted on 08/06/2024 9:56:28 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

For years, before he won the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, Donald Trump was something like the spiritual leader of the Republican Party’s right-wing base. He earned his place in the hearts and minds of conservative voters by doing what most Republican politicians at the time refused to do: He attacked Barack Obama as a foreign interloper and openly questioned his right to serve as president of the United States.

Birtherism made Trump a celebrity on the right. It made him a force to reckon with in the Republican Party. It made him so popular with Republican voters that, while fighting to win the 2012 race for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney ventured out to Las Vegas to receive Trump’s blessing and support. “There are some things that you just can’t imagine happening in your life,” Romney said at the event. “This is one of them. Being in Donald Trump’s magnificent hotel and having his endorsement is a delight. I’m so honored and pleased to have his endorsement.”

It may not have looked like it at the time, but birtherism also put Trump in a position to win the Republican presidential nomination for himself just four years later. Birtherism sits at the foundation of Trump’s political career. It is the energy that fueled his ascent to the highest peak of American politics. And as he tries to scale that peak for a third time — and for the first time against a nonwhite opponent — he has returned to birtherism as he makes his case to the public.

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


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: anchorbaby; fakenews; horizontalharris; jamellebouie; naturalborn
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To: ComputerGuy

The hospital shown on Obama’s “BIRTH CERT” is the name of a hospital created when 2 other hospitals MERGED-——5-6 YEARS AFTER BARRY WAS BORN.

The FORGERS didn’t do much research.


21 posted on 08/06/2024 10:49:28 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

While I appreciate Trump’s cajones in going against the grain on so-called birther issue, I have another reason to support him.

I have followed him off and on for decades as he built his real estate empire. He tells it like it is. He has that NYC grit that is essential for making it in Manhattan.

More than that, he has helped people all along the way without asking anything in return or seeking publicity for it. And none of these people were in a position of doing anything in return for the Donald. And - he actually cares about the country! A rarity these days.

Of course his taste in women is second to none, but we’ll save that for another time.


22 posted on 08/06/2024 10:49:57 AM PDT by Thorium90
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To: Tommy Revolts

AND ONLY AN ANCHOR BABY


23 posted on 08/06/2024 10:50:12 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump pounces!


24 posted on 08/06/2024 10:50:54 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: ChessExpert

“The term “Birtherism” is slander.”

They are trying to elevate it to the level of “racism,” the all-purpose epithet that causes everybody to run in fear.


25 posted on 08/06/2024 10:55:10 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: one guy in new jersey

Do we if Ivana was a “Naturalized Citizen of the US” BEFORE the children were born? If so, they are all NBC. Just curious.

In my own family, my Irish Grandfather “Naturalized” after the 1922 Irish Republic’s freedom. He and Kate’s first six of nine children would not have been NBC. Interesting.


26 posted on 08/06/2024 10:56:52 AM PDT by Joe Marine 76 ("Honor is a gift a man gives to himself." - Rob Roy MacGregor)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The “Original Birther” was Hillary Roadkill Clinton. She and lawyer, Phil Berg, filed the first lawsuit.


27 posted on 08/06/2024 10:58:09 AM PDT by Joe Marine 76 ("Honor is a gift a man gives to himself." - Rob Roy MacGregor)
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To: Joe Marine 76

Yeah, we know. It was after.


28 posted on 08/06/2024 10:58:15 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: ridesthemiles

Kapiʻolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital? It got that name 30 years before he was born and that name is on the birth certificate.


29 posted on 08/06/2024 10:59:45 AM PDT by x
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To: one guy in new jersey

Thanks, New Jersey.


30 posted on 08/06/2024 11:00:09 AM PDT by Joe Marine 76 ("Honor is a gift a man gives to himself." - Rob Roy MacGregor)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

https://www.nytimes.com/by/jamelle-bouie

Another interesting hire.


31 posted on 08/06/2024 11:01:57 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Joe Marine 76

From factcheck.org (didn’t bother to look for a more reputable source):

A Misleading Take on the Trump Family’s Citizenship
By Angelo Fichera

Posted on September 5, 2019

President Donald Trump’s first wife, Ivana, became a U.S. citizen in 1988 — years after the last of the couple’s three children, Eric, was born in 1984.


32 posted on 08/06/2024 11:03:54 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: ridesthemiles

The LFBC was cobbled together from parts of several different documents. And then, in a supreme fit of stupidity, they forgot to collapse the layers!


33 posted on 08/06/2024 11:11:49 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Joe Marine 76

Also, from www.politifact.com:

“Barron Trump was born in March 2006 and Melania wasn’t a legal citizen until July 2006.”


34 posted on 08/06/2024 11:12:52 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

One thing is pretty clear: this country badly needs clear, concise, no-argument definitions of citizenship qualifications for office. And clear, deterrent-level penalties for conspiring to defraud the people with forged documents. Also, it has to be a whole hell of a lot harder for judges to nullify law by maintaining that no one has standing to bring suit. That one is way, WAY abused, and our rights are trampled as a result.


35 posted on 08/06/2024 11:18:24 AM PDT by _longranger81
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Obama’s “birth certificate” never was verified by a forgery expert.

Now it’s under orders to be destroyed before anyone can examine it in Hawaii.


36 posted on 08/06/2024 11:31:18 AM PDT by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: one guy in new jersey

Are saying Donald isn’t a citizen of the USA?🤔


37 posted on 08/06/2024 11:35:01 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: BiteYourSelf

No, merely that Donald Trump, Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, and Barron Trump are all non-NBCs.


38 posted on 08/06/2024 11:39:44 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Not this s again...


39 posted on 08/06/2024 11:47:26 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: one guy in new jersey

Eh?

Did you mean all born in NYC except Tiffany?


40 posted on 08/06/2024 12:02:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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