CNN's Acosta: Trump Thinks Standing by Obama Birtherism Would've Helped Him in Election [View all]

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Source: Mediaite

So not only is President Trump‘s birtherism back in the news this week, but now CNN is reporting that Trump thinks he’d have done better if he never held that press conference saying Barack Obama was born in the U.S.

This is what the New York Times reported yesterday:

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But on CNN tonight, Jim Acosta reported the following:

“According to a source who is close to the White House… apparently President Trump, ever since that day when he finally acknowledged that Barack Obama was born in the United States, was questioning, and has questioned since then, the politics of that decision, meaning that he feels he would have done even better in the November election last year had he just stood his ground and insisted that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. He feels he would have performed even better in the polls.”

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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-acosta-trump-thinks-standing-by-obama-birtherism-wouldve-helped-him-in-election/

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Video at the link.