Inside the Six Weeks Donald Trump Was a Nonstop ‘Birther’

The New York Times ^ | July 2, 2016 | ASHLEY PARKER and STEVE EDER

[Seizethecarp]

In the birther movement, Mr. Trump recognized an opportunity to connect with the electorate over an issue many considered taboo: the discomfort, in some quarters of American society, with the election of the nation’s first black president. He harnessed it for political gain, beginning his connection with the largely white Republican base that, in his 2016 campaign, helped clinch his party’s nomination.

The more Mr. Trump questioned the legitimacy of Mr. Obama’s presidency, the better he performed in the early polls of the 2012 Republican field, springing from fifth place to a virtual tie for first.

That frenzied period culminated six weeks after it began in a surreal televised split screen between Mr. Trump and the White House briefing room, where aides released an image of the president’s birth certificate proving he was born in Honolulu and Mr. Obama directly addressed the issue.

It was a remarkable moment that Mr. Trump celebrated as a political victory.

Then Mr. Trump did something decidedly un-Trump-like: He dropped the issue and rarely spoke of it publicly again.

According to people apprised of the conversations, people close to him had been worried about the negative attention. Officials at NBC had also been concerned that he was alienating the large black audience of his hit show, “The Apprentice.”

But for all of his fascination with the president’s birth certificate, Mr. Trump apparently never dispatched investigators or made much of an effort to find the documents.

Dr. Alvin Onaka, the Hawaii state registrar who handled queries about Mr. Obama, said recently through a spokeswoman that he had no evidence or recollection of Mr. Trump or any of his representatives ever requesting the records from the Hawaii State Department of Health.

[Seizethecarp]

NY Times smears Trump, and Obama eligibility investigators aka the "birther movement" as basically having totally racist motivation, of course!

The comments have hit over 700 and are a wasteland of low information liberal piling on, as usual, but with a few feeble attempts to correct the record or stand up for Trump or question Barry's BC authenticity in the Hawaii archive.

[wetgundog]

Remember my friends, Hillary Clinton’s campaign started the “Birther Movement”, not Donald Trump.

[fieldmarshaldj]

And to this day, we still know less about this President’s personal background than any other in the history of the republic. Exactly how the media and the political establishment wants it.

[Seizethecarp]

Ping to major NY Times “birther” article bashing Trump’s six weeks as a “birther”.

Article says Trump backed off in 2011 because Blacks would be offended he was going after Barry and stop watching The Apprentice.

Whenifhow, please ping LucyT’s list if you are still doing that for her...

[TakebackGOP]

It was the capture of Bin Laden that got rid of this from the headlines and the phony bc that Obama released. The NY Times and the Washington Post had articles about McCain’s birth issue.

[D_Idaho]

“Birther”, my ass. The COLB posted on the White House was as phony as they come. What are they hiding?

[Pic7]

Let them open the pandoras box to Zeros past.

Zero used multiple SSN. This article isn’t about Trump. It’s about Zero and his fake past. However, this is a non story. The libs have said their tactic against Trump is going to be ridicule and scorn. HAAA That strategy is going to backfire.

The lying liberal Left needs to get up to speed that those who espouse and promote being politically correct will now be seen in a negative light with 2016 voters. People see right through the bias in the article. NYT is still playing the politically correct card which has been shunned by the majority of voters in the 2016 primary.

[basalt]

so true..this whole Obama thing is just plain bizarre. No ones ever heard of this guy,,then, hes elected President of the USA. There’s whole sections of this guys life that no one knows about.All very odd..

[RC one]

I know he’s the least American President in American history.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Was his carcass born in USA, who knows.

But his soul seems to have been forged on Mars.

[tumblindice]

The New York Times: ‘All The **** Unfit To Print’.
More journalistic skidmarks on the panties of the Old Grey Whore.

[Sarah Barracuda]

There is a reason why Obama NEVER released his college records..Bush did, remember how the media made fun of his grades, if Obama is such a “Genius” like the media always portrays him as, lets see his grades, let’s see how he paid for college..from what I have heard he got financial aide for a “Foreign born” college student

[Lurkinanloomin]

Who would have thought that Justice Scalia would sit back and let a man he knew was not a natural born citizen take the oath of office?
Not just him, either. All of them. Dick Cheney knew, you can see it in his eyes in that famous picture on Usurpation Day. None of them said anything.
They all took an oath to defend the Constitution and none of them did.
Some of them actively colluded with the Democrats to obscure Obama’s ineligibilty.
The Republic was lost on that day.
Trump is our only hope of a restoration.

(A year ago, I thought Trump was not a serious candidate)

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“Remember my friends, Hillary Clinton’s campaign started the “Birther Movement”, not Donald Trump.”

Yes, with video evidence if I remember correctly. This is an easy one for Trump to diffuse, and actually provides him with a great opportunity.

[KamperKen]

I think the media has given up on trying to portray Obama as a genius.

I stumbled across a list recently of the 15 smartest US presidents by estimated or measured IQ, and much to my pleasant surprise, he wasn’t on the list.

[SERKIT]

When Barry leaves and as his records are unsealed, this will turn out to be the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on this country. Lineage, marriage, children, sexual stuff, college records, adoption records, travel records and passports, selective service records....it will become a best-selling book and biggest black mark (racist, I know) on this country.

[luvbach1]

To my knowledge his Hawaiian birth certificate was proven to be a fake, largely by informed analyses by Freepers, so I’m not one to poo poo “birthers.”

[LucyT]

NY Times smears Trump, and Obama eligibility investigators aka the "birther movement" as basically having totally racist motivation, of course!

The comments have hit over 700 and are a wasteland of low information liberal piling on, as usual, but with a few feeble attempts to correct the record or stand up for Trump or question Barry's BC authenticity in the Hawaii archive.

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Remember my friends, Hillary Clinton’s campaign started the “Birther Movement”, not Donald Trump.

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Check out article and comments.

Thanks, Seizethecarp.

[kiryandil]

Oh, look!

MORE Hillary @sslampreys!

[Crucial]

Trump supposedly took advantage of the fact that the Republican base is largely white. So whites don’t have a right to band together dor political purposes, no matter the purpose? That’s what the Left is always insinuating. The NY Times is full of racists.