{"id":32728,"date":"2016-09-26T22:15:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T05:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32728"},"modified":"2016-09-26T22:32:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T05:32:39","slug":"trump-flat-out-lies-about-his-racist-birther-crusade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32728","title":{"rendered":"Trump Flat Out Lies About His Racist Birther Crusade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight we witnessed the first face-to-face meeting between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Debate watchers might have expected that Trump would unleash a flurry of falsehoods. They were not disappointed. In the next few hours there will be a great deal of fact-checking going on and Trump’s lies<\/a><\/strong> will be revealed in detail. But one exchange in particular deserves some immediate attention.<\/p>\n

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During one segment<\/a><\/strong> moderator Lester Holt asked Trump about his obsession with the birthplace of President Obama. He asked:<\/p>\n

“Mr. Trump, for five years, you perpetuated a false claim that the nation’s first black president was not a natural born citizen. You questioned his legitimacy. In the last couple of weeks you acknowledged what most Americans have accepted for years, the president was born in the United States. Can you tell us what took you so long?”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rather than answer the question, Trump set off on a fantastical diversion. He reiterated the lie that Clinton started the racist Birther conspiracy. Then he went further to claim that Clinton’s campaign manager in 2008 admitted it on CNN last week:<\/p>\n

“[H]er campaign manager, Patty Doyle, went to \u2014 they were in the campaign, her campaign against President Obama, fought very hard – and you can go look it up and you can check it out – and if you look at CNN this past week, Patty Solis Doyle was on Wolf Blitzer saying that this happened.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK. So I did look it up. And guess what I found. Trump was lying through his capped teeth, as usual. From CNN<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

“Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign manager rejected Donald Trump’s claim Friday that the campaign was responsible for the ‘birther’ movement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“‘The campaign, nor Hillary, did not start the birther movement. Period. End of the story,’ Patti Solis Doyle told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Furthermore, Ms. Doyle tweeted the same message the same day:<\/p>\n

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.@HillaryClinton<\/a> or her '08 campaign DID NOT start birther movement. Period. I was there.<\/p>\n

— Patti Solis Doyle (@PattiSolisDoyle) September 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n