Trump Forced to Walk Back Birtherism

[JurisDictum]

After briefly flirting with the idea of continuing birtherism, Trump finally admitted he thinks Obama was born here.

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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...s-media-228310

“It's hard to imagine this as anything other than a political Rick-roll,” CNN anchor Jake Tapper vented on air after Trump’s hotel event. His colleague John King followed up with, “We just got played.”

Only after that extended infomercial did Trump deliver the goods — a speedy statement that Obama was indeed born in the United States, coupled with a blatantly false accusation that Hillary Clinton started the conspiracy to begin with.

The media got punked.

“It's hard to imagine this as anything other than a political Rick-roll,” CNN anchor Jake Tapper vented on air after Trump’s hotel event. His colleague John King followed up with, “We just got played.”

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Of course now the Fox line is going to be about how Clinton started it all. In a very vague since, she was the first to question his background (background not birth certificate). Some of her surrogates were more bold -- but she's Hillary Clinton -- she has a lot of surrogates. Not to mention they were mostly in a blind panic because Clinton was unexpectedly losing from some green politician out of no where.

This is the alt right site I came across when looking it up: http://www.dailywire.com/news/9200/h...ont-john-nolte

If you read the facts and ignore the tone, not even this propaganda job says anything truly damning. Clinton fired those caught race-baiting, and never once said a conclusive statement that he wasn't born here or that there was reason to doubt him. They linked a Chris Matthews clip....IDK WTF was going on with Matthews at the time, but I remember in 2008 the guy was a massive Obama fanatic. He made it his personal mission to tear down Clinton as much as possible after Obama's Victory in Iwoa. If you want to see Matthews at his most dishonest -- check out the clip.

Meanwhile Trump's entire presidential bid in 2012 was based on birtherism... But It was cleaver to bring up the Clinton thing. His campaign has obviously put a lot of thought into it.

Edit: I didn't realize they did such an annoying fucking edit job on that clip. It must be something with the mopes that normally read this shit.