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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump’s ridiculous claim that Hillary Clinton started the birther movement
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/05/06/donald-trumps-ridiculous-claim-that-hillary-clinton-started-the-birther-movement/You know who started the birther movement? You know who started it? Do you know who questioned his birth certificate, one of the first? Hillary Clinton. Shes the one that started it. She brought it up years before it was brought up by me.
Donald Trump, interview with CNNs Wolf Blitzer, May 4, 2016
Zombie claims are stubborn things. No matter how many times you debunk them, they keep rising from the dead even eight years later.
Trump was one of the most high-profile birthers during President Obamas 2012 reelection campaign. Starting early last year, Trump and other Republicans blamed Clinton for starting the birther movement. Our friends at FactCheck.org thoroughly disproved this and found no link between Clinton and the birther rumors. When Trump repeated it months later, PolitiFact and our colleague David Weigel again debunked it.
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Lyin' Donald
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Mike Nelson
(9,990 posts)...is repeated on FOX during their chatting sessions. It's even been repeated here on DU.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)spanone
(135,952 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)to hear a trump line on the Morning "trump cheerleading" Joe Show at 4:30a.m., and read that same line on DU at 4:35a.m.
spanone
(135,952 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Instead of Fox News coining the term to tie the Affordable Care Act to Obama's then-low ratings.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)She hasn't shown initiative to start anything at all in her career, in DC or away.
She did, of course, dive into pushing that meme as we all remember, but she never started it. To mix a metaphor or three, all Clinton has ever done is look at the windsock, slash the tires of persons better qualified to lead, and jump on the bandwagon that would bring in the most votes.
sorefeet
(1,241 posts)Hawaiian investigation???? He had a shit load of HIS people over there and they were hot on the trail. And he would break the news any day now.