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Inside the Six Weeks Donald Trump Was a Nonstop ‘Birther’
The New York Times ^ | July 2, 2016 | ASHLEY PARKER and STEVE EDER

Posted on 07/02/2016 9:17:50 PM PDT by 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.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: birftards; birthers; desperate; josephfarah; naturalborncitizen; obama; slimes; smearattempt; trump; trumpbirther
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To: wetgundog

The POS in the White Mosque used his Kenyan birth to get free money in his college days. He himself published his Kenyan birth.


41 posted on 07/03/2016 3:50:55 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: generally
My speculation: Trump dropped the investigation into the BC for one or both of the following reasons:
1. Trump’s tv show was threatened
. 2. The network told him to knock it off.
3. He decided to go after bigger fish

4. He investigated and figured out the BC is a complete waste of time.

42 posted on 07/03/2016 3:54:20 AM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet over to foreign enemies)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I’m thinking the BC issue and Trump are still residing in the heads of the NY Times’ editors. They now see Hilldibeast in a criminal investigation and Obozo will not be far behind her when Trump becomes president. The reason that Trump is silent is the he needs to take a hands off to the work of his AG on Obozo. Trump forced Obozo to incriminate himself with the phony BC. That was ‘check mate’ for Trump. Now the prosecution for fraud is a slam dunk case with Joe’s leg work.


43 posted on 07/03/2016 4:03:30 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: Seizethecarp
Discomfort about a black president?

How about the ILLEGALITY of electing a KNOWN FOREIGNER!

We all knew he wasn't a US citizen before he was s elected. You can bet W knew and knows, yet he failed and continues to fail his sworn oath of office, as do the entire congress, and courts!

The whole lot of our govt needs to be lined up!

44 posted on 07/03/2016 4:14:23 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist
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To: onyx
I usually like to bring up his pronunciation of OB/GYN as oh-bee-guy-knee, instead. Particularly to women who I suspect voted for Obama in the past.

Either that, or the time he used a TelePrompTer when giving a speech to 6th graders.

In any case, this fraud is not nearly as intelligent as his sycophants in the media would have us believe.

45 posted on 07/03/2016 5:01:25 AM PDT by mellow velo
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To: D_Idaho
I analyzed that COLB myself, just out of curiosity. Because it is a monospaced font on a typewriter, you should be able to take text from one part of the document and compare it to another by cutting and pasting directly underneath text in another part of the document, as I did above putting the text in the red rectangle under a previously typed segment and lined up the "a" near the end of the words "Highway" and under it, "Hospital".

As it is easy to see, the monospaced text does not line up. Perhaps from a different typewriter? I doubt it:

This alone doesn't mean Obama should not have been ineligible for the Presidency. I means they lied, obfuscated, and forged. And that is my fundamental issue.

46 posted on 07/03/2016 6:08:54 AM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: generally

The left and the media, oops I repeat myself, successfully labeled (there they went again with their word games) anyone questioning Obama’s eligibility a “BIRTHER”.

BIRTHER = Racist, Bigoted, Crazy, Stupid, Moronic, unintelligent, Idiotic, Conspiracy theorist, Hate mongering, Despicable, Piece of human debris.

So being labeled a “Birther” became worse than being labeled a cannibalistic pedophile.

Trump made the right decision to stop digging and cut his losses in a NO WIN situation.


47 posted on 07/03/2016 6:15:54 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: rlmorel

What are trying to point out?


48 posted on 07/03/2016 7:07:53 AM PDT by GregNH (If you can't fight, please find a good place to hide!)
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To: Seizethecarp

Riddle me this.
Why does said mullato, or anybody, need a fake, forged and fraudulent government birth certificate?

That is the only question


49 posted on 07/03/2016 7:13:34 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: GregNH

Two different monospaced fonts on the same document supposedly typed at the same time with vastly different spacing.


50 posted on 07/03/2016 7:13:46 AM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: GregNH

1960 era clerks used a manual typewriter.
You pushed down on a button, and the letter, attached to an arm, would fly up, strike a ribbon, and “stamp” a letter onto the paper positioned behind the ink soaked ribbon.

The entire assembly would advance, left to right, the same predetermined distance. Each typed letter/number occupied the same amount of room on each line.

Each typewriter was unique. You tie a document back to the typewritter used.

The OP demonstrates that two different typewriters were used to fill out the form. In fact, some demonstrate multiple types of font and spacing.

The Birth Certificate pdf is a fake, and compiled from more than one sample document from the 1960’s


51 posted on 07/03/2016 7:29:23 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Steven Tyler; rlmorel

I just don’t understand the manipulated image rlmorel posted. I know there never was a document. Just don’t understand the “p” and “l” comparison.


52 posted on 07/03/2016 7:38:32 AM PDT by GregNH (If you can't fight, please find a good place to hide!)
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To: GregNH

The typewriter carriage mechanically advances the same distance, left to right, with each keystroke.

The mechanical typewriter does not know what letter or number you will type next.

The typewriter gives each letter/number the same linear space.

Imagine vertical plumb lines dropping from the sides of each letter. The space between the lines is always the same.

When you line up the letters “a”, you expect the sixth letter to the right, and the eighth letter to the left, to be directly below a letter from the comparative sentence above!

Seems to me a clerk typed one line on the pre-printed form, inserted the form into a second typewriter, lined everything up, and proceeded to type a second line, then repeating and moving to a third typewriter for the third line, etc.

A clerk ought to use one typewriter to fill out the form


53 posted on 07/03/2016 7:55:30 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
I could go on for months but you know what I’m saying.

Fine summary. And there is a video tape of Obama at a meeting with some mohammedan, can't remember the name, that the Los Angeles Times spirited away for safe keeping. All in all, Obama's history was scrubbed and white-washed for public consumption. I imagine that there will be a cornucopia of books about him after he leaves office.

54 posted on 07/03/2016 8:05:21 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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To: GregNH
What I understand:

Every member of Congress **KNOWS** Obama’s documents are fake.

Every governor of every state **KNOWS** Obama’s documents are fake.

Every judge who has refused to hear a case on Obama’s eligibility **KNOWS** Obama’s documents are fake.

Every conservative talk show host and most of the Marxist media **KNOW** Obama’s documents are fake.

But... the very saddest of all.....ALL of very highest military **KNOW** that Obama’s documents are fake but have refused to legally and peaceful ask congress and the courts for clarification and/or RESIGN their commissions. Instead, they have subjected the honorable and highly trained troops under their command to the whims of a usurper. SHAME SHAME SHAME on them!

55 posted on 07/03/2016 8:07:18 AM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: Arthur McGowan

‘average IQ, at best.’

All indicators taken together, the operative words are “at best.” Odds are very good to excellent that Obama’s IQ is slightly-to-somewhat below average.


56 posted on 07/03/2016 8:39:07 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: generally
My speculation: Trump dropped the investigation into the BC for one or both of the following reasons:

And as far as the public was concerned, that appears to be what he did. He let it go.

However, that Trump is now in contention for the presidency perhaps speaks to what he uncovered in that research, along with all he's learned in all these many years of watching the "Powers That Be" in action from his unique vantage point.

As I watch the many now come against him, I pray for Trump's continuous divine protection and guidance.

Few in this world have the gnarliest of narlies it takes to kick the NWO's American-based hornet's nest.

But, in one of the most surprising things I've seen to date, Trump not only took their PC shtick away from them, he then started swinging it hard and whacking their hornet's nest like it's a pinata, over and over again!

Wahoo! Batter, batter...swing batter! That stirred 'em up real good!

Yep, pray for Trump's continuous divine protection and guidance.

Whatever else he may be, right now he is our best hope for change and probably our last exit off this heavy toll road for the next 100 years.

57 posted on 07/03/2016 8:39:31 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: Fantasywriter

The only records more tightly held than Baraq’s school / test transcripts are his golf scores.


58 posted on 07/03/2016 8:40:35 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: rlmorel

On a side note, the address is a lie. Stanley Ann was not living at that location when she birthed Little Barry.


59 posted on 07/03/2016 8:41:49 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Steven Tyler

There are hundreds of issues with the creation of what was posted on WH.gov and most were known within hours of it’s appearance. The post on the previous page does not say anything to me and probably more who look at it without an explanation.


60 posted on 07/03/2016 8:44:37 AM PDT by GregNH (If you can't fight, please find a good place to hide!)
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