Birthers Firm Despite Obama Birth Certificate [View all]
By MATT NEGRIN (@MattNegrin)
May 25, 2012
... Democrats also revived Trump's flirtations with birthers on Thursday, as Romney announced a contest to share a meal with the real estate mogul for a $3 donation to his campaign. Trump famously crusaded against Obama's claims of citizenship last year, creating a media frenzy that led the president to put his long-form birth certificate online for everyone to see.
"Once again Mitt Romney is failing the moral leadership test," Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Melanie Roussell said in a statement. "Instead of rejecting Donald Trump's 'birther' conspiracy theories and divisive attacks, he's endorsing them by campaigning and fundraising with him. Romney has shown time and again that he's not ready to have his John McCain 2008 type moment by speaking out against these types of attacks against the President. This type of false and extremely divisive rhetoric has no place in the political discourse of our country and Mitt Romney should stand up against it instead of standing with Donald Trump to raise money for his campaign." ...
Leo Berman, a state representative in Texas who also filed a birther bill, said he doesn't believe Obama was born in the United States because of YouTube videos he said he's seen that show Obama and the first lady admitting that he wasn't born in the country ...
According to an ABC News/Washington Post survey from about a year ago, only 77 percent of people polled said they knew Obama was born in the United States. Of those who didn't, 3 percent said another country, and 19 percent said they had no opinion.
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