Trump gleefully promoted the birther conspiracy for five years. Given multiple opportunities in this campaign to abandon the idea, Trump demurred. Just this year on CNN, Trump said he was going to write a book on Obama’s real birthplace. “[I]t will do very successfully [sic],” Trump told Wolf Blitzer.
The Trump campaign, more broadly, is premised on the idea that Obama is a fraud who has turned the country over to foreigners. After the gun massacre in Orlando that left 49 people dead in June, Trump suggested that Obama could have stopped it but “had something else in mind.”
“The something else in mind, people can’t believe it,” Trump said. Except Trump’s supporters did believe it. 59 percent of them, according to one recent poll, believe Obama was secretly born outside the United States. Just 13 percent believe he is a Christian....
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