Posted on 09/09/2016 8:48:21 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump's campaign manager, sat for an interview with CNN Friday morning in which she became the latest prominent surrogate for the Republican presidential candidate to attempt a walk away from his long support of the disproved notion that President Obama was not born in the United States.
"So, he believes President Obama was born here," Conway said of Trump, quickly pivoting to an argument about Obama's performance in office.
That's a smart pivot by Conway! There are many more people open to an argument about the allegedly poor job Obama has done as president than to one about how Obama was actually not born in the United States.
There's just one problem with Conway's case. The candidate has never given any indication that he is convinced that Obama was born in the United States.
"I don’t talk about it because if I talk about that, your whole thing will be about that,” Trump told reporters earlier this week when asked whether he believed Obama was born in this country. “So I don’t talk about it.” That's a very similar argument to the one Trump made to CNN's Brian Stelter in July. While acknowledging he would "love to" talk about birtherism, Trump added: "If I do talk about it, then what happens, is, that takes up — then we're not talking about the horrible economy."
Despite the best efforts of Conway and Trump surrogate Rudolph W. Giuliani, who has also insisted Trump knows Obama was born in the United States, there is simply no evidence to back up that claim. In fact, there's plenty of reason to believe that Trump still holds that view but has, for political reasons, just stopped talking about it.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Barack Obama let the publisher of his book say he was born in Kenya. Obama went to college as a foreign student. Why else would he seal his college records?
HI is barely the US. Bammy is clearly not “American”.
Disproved???
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Ping to WaPo article on Kellyanne Conway (and other surrogates) trying to distance Trump from “birtherism”...but Trump isn’t exactly cooperating...
Hillary is the first “birther”. It was HER that made the charge in 2008.
Cillizza wants us to stop stop talking about Hillary’s health status.
So he goes with birther claims from 4 years ago.
Why don’t these idiots get it? The whole “birther” thing was a victory for Trump and those of us who have hated the Obama regime.
Trump was the only one to force Obama to show what Obama claimed was his birth certificate. It was a legitimate constitutional question and Trump won the battle to get Obama to show something to validate his eligibility since Obama’s history is so murky.
What Obama actually showed, questionable as it was, is kind of beside the point. Trump forced Obama’s hand when NO ONE else could. That turned my head towards Trump as a guy who wouldn’t back down to the media, Obama, or political correctness.
Yes, my immediate reaction... What has been disproved? What has been proved is that the GOPe are a bunch of spineless worms who have refused to do a thorough investigation on this matter.
Chris “Yes Huma Yes” Cillizza: Hillary is the original birther! Look it up!!
By any of the known facts he was never qualified to be POTUS - alien father; young mother.
Cillizza is a pathetic hack..not a journalist
We know that Hillary is the original birther.
Does not matter where he was born if his father was a foreign national he is not a natural born citizen.
There is no one who believes more than I do, that Obama is in eligible
I also believe that Obama was NOT born in the USA.
The left won this one, PERIOD. It doesn’t matter that they are WRONG.
The left and the media were not going to let a little thing like the constitution stop the FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT from being installed in the white house.
The Certificates of Live Birth or Birth Certificates provided by Obama are all FORGERIES. There is not doubt about this. They all have been manipulated, and information changed, edited, inserted, deleted.
I just have ONE question for deniers..... Why would anyone have a FORGED birth certificate? Or several different versions of them?
Trump should leave this alone. The left and media are trying to use this birther thing as a CLUB to beat Trump up with.
Like I said, we lost this one (for now), maybe forever.
DO NOT give them ammunition for their guns. If you don’t give them any ammunition, they can’t shoot you.
Illary started this $hit.
in eligible = ineligible
Compost
BINGO! Even if Barry was born in the Lincoln bedroom of the White Hut, he is not a Natural Born Citizen. For the same reason Rafael isn’t.
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