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In reply to the discussion: Jeezus H. Christ on a hockey stick. This is the FIRST time I've ever tried to listen to a Trump [View all]lunasun
(21,646 posts)Back in 2011, when Donald Trump was flirting with a possible presidential bid, he appealed to conservative audiences by questioning, over and over, whether or not Barack Obama was actually born in the United States. At one point, the loudmouthed millionaire even said that he dispatched investigators to Obamas (actual) native Hawaii to see what they could dig up.
Mainstream Republicans seethed, fearful that Trump's shenanigans were off-putting to moderates and a distraction from issues like the economy that could actually unseat an incumbent president.
Three years later, Obama has released his long-form birth certificate, proving beyond any doubt that he was born in Hawaii as he says, and Trump is once again making the rounds at Republican conferences.
And as for that whole birther controversy, he says he regrets none of it.
I dont think it was a distraction. A lot of people love me for it. I got him to produce his so-called birth certificate, or whatever it was, Trump said at a news conference this afternoon. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/30/donald-trump-is-still-a-birther.html