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from the Los Angeles Times....

Donald Trump finally concedes that President Obama was
born in the U.S. after years of promoting conspiracy theory


By LISA MASCARO and NOAH BIERMAN - reporting from Washington D.C. | 3:25PM PDT - Friday, September 16, 2016



DONALD TRUMP's rise to political prominence grew partly out of his willingness to stoke fringe theories about President Obama's birthplace, views that made him popular with many Republicans and conspiracy buffs but became a drag on his White House aspirations.

Trump sought to sweep away five years of questioning Obama's legitimacy in a few seconds on Friday. He did so not with a thoughtful reflection exploring his change of heart or an apology, but a quick statement at the end of a promotional media spectacle showcasing his newest hotel.

And rather than acknowledge his role in the so-called birther movement that spread false claims about the president, Trump instead sparked two new unfounded theories: He blamed rival Hillary Clinton for having started it and took credit for being the one who “finished it”.

“President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period,” Trump said in quick remarks at an event honoring supportive veterans. “Now, we all want to get back to making America strong and great again.”

As the press shouted questions, Trump walked off stage and began touring the new hotel for the cameras.

The moment was classic Trump, a nothing-to-see-here reversal that may allow the GOP to begin to put Trump's birther days behind them, but not without facing critics who say Trump's campaign is built on falsehoods with few limits on what he will say in his pursuit of the presidency.

“We know who Donald is,” Clinton said to an African American women's group in Washington, accusing Trump of “feeding the worst impulses” of bigotry with his campaign.

“For five years, he has led the birther movement to delegitimize the first black president,” she said. “His campaign was founded on this lie. There is no erasing it in history.”

The episode drew in Obama, who has endured questions about his birth in Hawaii for years, and appeared disdainful when asked about it on Friday in the Oval Office.

“I was pretty confident about where I was born,” Obama told reporters. “I think most people were as well, and I would hope that a presidential election reflects more serious issues.”

As the presidential contest narrows, Trump has come under increasing pressure to distance himself from his role in the birther movement, which had long been consigned to the realm of fringe conspiracy theories. Democrats — and even some Republican leaders — have called the theory an effort to undermine the nation's first black president.

Trump was the most prominent person to promote the view that Obama was born elsewhere, which aligned him with white nationalists but alienated many mainstream voters who have little interest in such conspiracy theories and whose votes are vital in the final weeks of the chaotic campaign. In 2012, Trump offered to donate $5 million if Obama would produce records related to his citizenship.

Long after Obama released a copy of his birth certificate and others had stopped pressing the case, Trump continued promoting the view.

“The president should come clean,” Trump said on Irish television in 2014, in a clip unearthed by BuzzFeed late on Thursday that showed him refusing still to accept that Obama's Hawaii birth certificate was genuine proof. “A lot of people feel it wasn't a proper certificate.”

As recently as Wednesday, Trump refused to concede in an interview published on Thursday by The Washington Post that Obama was a natural-born American, which is a requirement for the presidency.




On Friday, the staging of his announcement, like so much of the campaign, was unusually promotional for such a serious issue.

As protesters rallied outside Trump's Pennsylvania Avenue hotel, Trump told Fox Business News that he did not yet want to answer a question about Obama's birthplace because he “wanted to keep the suspense going.”

Trump gathered media for what was expected to be a frank exchange. But it ended up being little more than a showcase for his new position — and new Trump property.

“Nice hotel!” Trump exclaimed, taking the stage in the Presidential Ballroom, a gold and neon-accented venue with several hanging chandeliers in the new hotel blocks from the White House.

After listening to veterans who endorse him laud his candidacy, Trump made his statement and abruptly left, ignoring reporters' questions after claiming credit for resolving the problem.

In a statement, his aides accused Clinton of promoting the rumors during her long and fraught 2008 Democratic primary fight against Obama. At the time, a Clinton advisor had suggested in an internal memo that the campaign should focus on her middle-American roots, a counter to Obama's multicultural upbringing in Hawaii and Indonesia. The strategy was rejected and no evidence has emerged that she or her staff embarked on any organized effort to target his citizenship.

The Trump campaign promoted a clip on Friday that seemed to show the opposite of what was intended — in it, Clinton's 2008 campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, talks about firing either a low-level staffer or a volunteer who admitted to forwarding an email espousing unfounded assertions about Obama's birthplace.

And as for Trump's insistence that he “finished” the debate over Obama's birthplace, he continued to question it long after 2011, when, his campaign said, he brought “this ugly incident to its conclusion” when Obama released his long-form birth certificate.

“What a liar,” Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the top Democrat in the Senate, said in a CNN interview shortly after Trump's announcement. “He is just such a phony.”

Leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus, who were holding an annual gathering in Washington, denounced Trump as a “fraud” and “con artist”.

“It's a defining moment for all those who want to denounce bigotry and racism,” said Representative Barbara Lee (Democrat-Oakland). “Demand an apology from this man.”

Representative G.K. Butterfield (Democrat-North Carolina), the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said, “Most Americans can see right through what he was trying to do today.”

Republicans, though, were pleased that Trump has distanced his campaign from some of the harsh rhetoric in its final weeks.

“This is a ‘let's move on’ moment,” said Frank Luntz, a Republican who helps candidates craft messages. “He has to become tolerable among independents and swing voters…. With every passing day, he becomes more tolerable and she becomes less,” he said of Clinton.

Others, though, were less enthused, seeing instead a nominee who once again veered off message when his campaign has been gaining in polls.

“The bar is so low with Trump that admitting that the incumbent president was born in the United States was viewed as progress by some,” said Ryan Williams, a GOP consultant and former spokesman for Mitt Romney.

“I don't think it's enough to sway undecided voters,” he said. “It really says a lot about things when major news outlets say it's ‘breaking news’ that the Republican nominee for president admits the outgoing president is legitimate, eight years after he took office.”


Los Angeles Times staff writers Michael A. Memoli and Evan Halper contributed to this report.

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from the Los Angeles Times....

What Donald Trump has said through the years
about where President Obama was born


By CHRIS MEGERIAN | 1:20PM PDT - Friday, September 16, 2016



DONALD TRUMP stood before television cameras on Friday and acknowledged a well-known fact that he had spent years denying — “President Barack Obama was born in the United States.”

It will be up to voters to determine whether that one sentence can erase years of Trump's lying about whether Obama was born an American citizen, a long history of the Republican nominee attempting to undermine the legitimacy of the country’s first black president.

Here's a look at Trump's history of spreading falsehoods about Obama's origins.


2008: Obama first faces questions about his birthplace

With rumors percolating about whether Obama was born in the U.S. and thus eligible to serve as president — a movement that would be dubbed birtherism — his campaign released a certification of live birth to prove he was born in Hawaii in 1961.

Spring 2011: Trump joins the movement

Three years later, Trump began pushing the issue in television interviews as he was considering whether to run for president in 2012.

“I have some real doubts,” Trump told the “Today” show. He claimed to have sent his own investigators to Hawaii, where Obama was born. “I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding.”

Trump raised another falsehood in an interview with “Good Morning America”, suggesting Obama was trying to conceal his religion by withholding his birth certificate. “Maybe it says he's a Muslim,” he said. Obama is Christian.


April 2011: Obama releases his long-form birth certificate

After weeks of Trump stirring the pot, the president called a White House news conference to release his long-form birth certificate. Obama called the issue a distraction pushed by “carnival barkers”, an implicit dig at Trump.

In response, Trump bragged about forcing Obama to release the document. He said he was “very proud” of himself and the birth certificate would have to be examined to ensure it was authentic.

Obama got the last word in this chapter.

At the White House correspondents dinner, in front of high-ranking lawmakers, top journalists, powerful Washington insiders and Trump himself, Obama skewered him.

"Now he can get back to focusing on the issues that matter,” Obama said while the New York businessman sat in the audience, unsmiling. “Like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened at Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?"




2012: Trump presses birther issue during election

Trump's campaign claimed in a statement on Thursday evening that he “brought closure” to the issue in 2011 when Obama released his birth certificate. But it's clear that Trump didn't consider the matter to be settled while Obama was running for re-election.



Trump even encouraged Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, to press the issue during a debate. In his tweet, Trump cites a promotional booklet for Obama's autobiography that inaccurately says he was born outside the U.S.



2013: Trump keeps the falsehood alive

Trump continued to spread conspiracy theories about the birth certificate the year after Obama was re-elected, suggesting the death of a Hawaiian official was somehow related to a cover-up of the president’s true origins.



In an interview with ABC News, Trump said the issue “made me very popular.” Pressed to acknowledge that Obama was born in the United States, he said, “I'm saying I don't know. Nobody knows.”

2015: Trump launches presidential campaign

Trump announced in June 2015 that he would run for president as a Republican. A month later, he renewed his doubts about Obama's birthplace. "I don't know. I really don't know," he said during a CNN interview.

Donald Trump poses with his family after announcing his candidacy for president in New York in June 2015. — Photograph: Christopher Gregory/Getty Images.
Donald Trump poses with his family after announcing his candidacy for president in New York in June 2015.
 — Photograph: Christopher Gregory/Getty Images.


Early 2016: Trump dodges birther questions

As he began to inch closer to the GOP nomination, Trump started to shy away from the issue.

“Who cares right now? We're talking about something else, OK?” he told CNN. “I have my own theory on Obama. Someday I will write a book.”


Summer 2016: Trump's campaign starts to say he's changed his belief

In recent weeks, top members of Trump's campaign began trying to walk back the nominee's statements. His running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, said he knew Obama was born a citizen. His campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said last week that Trump believes Obama was born in the U.S., and a statement from a senior communications aide late on Thursday asserted the same.

But none of those comments came from Trump himself, who declined to answer questions on the topic as recently as Wednesday in an interview with The Washington Post.


September 2016: Trump acknowledges the truth about Obama

Five years after began doing television interviews about Obama's birth certificate, Trump declared at his new hotel in Washington that the president was born in the United States. Trump did not apologize, nor did he explain why he changed his mind.

At the same time, he claimed it was Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent who ran against Obama in the 2008 primary, who originally raised questions about the president's birth. There's no evidence of that.


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from The Washington Post....

Trump may want the birther issue to go away,
but it will always be part of his history


By DAN BALZ | 10:40AM EDT - Saturday, September 17, 2016

Donald Trump spent a lot of time raising doubts over President Obama's birth certificate in 2011. He finally admitted Obama was born in the U.S. on September 16th, but falsely accused Hillary Clinton's campaign of starting the rumor. — Photograph: Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post.
Donald Trump spent a lot of time raising doubts over President Obama's birth certificate in 2011. He finally admitted Obama
was born in the U.S. on September 16th, but falsely accused Hillary Clinton's campaign of starting the rumor.
 — Photograph: Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post.


DONALD TRUMP has prided himself on having unerring instincts and a flair for showmanship, attributes that helped dispatch his Republican rivals in the primaries and that he hopes will land him in the White House in January. His handling of the birther issue — past and present — says just the opposite.

Trump's performance on Friday was a hurried and defensive effort to put to bed a lingering controversy that was suddenly resurrected because of his own stubbornness — and his unwillingness to acknowledge error or express regret. In trying to get beyond it on Friday, he compounded his error, perpetuating another falsehood about Hillary Clinton's role while mischaracterizing his own actions over the five years since he first elevated the lies and conspiracy theories about whether President Obama was born in the United States.

His 31-word statement, delivered at his new hotel in Washington at the end of an infomercial and campaign rally combination, will not end the discussion. Given the questions he left hanging, it's now impossible to believe that his role in perpetuating the birther issue will not become a topic of further discussion, much as Trump and his advisers want it to go away.

The danger for Trump is that the next time he might have to address the issue publicly will be with the biggest audience of the campaign watching, at the first presidential debate on September 26th at Hofstra University. What any smart campaign would have dealt with long ago now lingers with just seven weeks left before the election.

Clinton refused to let the issue drop in the hours after Trump's Friday statement. “The birther lie is what turned Trump from a reality TV star into a political figure,” she tweeted. Will she not challenge Trump on it at the debate? Many Democrats would accuse her of malpractice if she does not. Just as likely, the issue will be raised by NBC's Lester Holt, who will moderate the first debate. Is Trump prepared to offer an apology or expression of regret if confronted in that forum?


President Obama responds to a question about Donald Trump questioning his place of birth during a meeting in the Oval Office on September 16th. — Photograph: Win Mcnamee/Getty Images.
President Obama responds to a question about Donald Trump questioning his place of birth during a meeting in the Oval Office
on September 16th. — Photograph: Win Mcnamee/Getty Images.


Trump's new campaign team had served him well over the past few weeks, bringing greater discipline to his message (by forcing him to deliver speeches from a teleprompter), having him offer policy proposals designed to appeal to voters where his support is weaker than it should be (even while raising questions of how the arithmetic adds up or the ideology fits with traditional GOP conservatism) and avoiding, where possible, unforced errors.

The strategy in part helped turn what once was a clear Clinton advantage in the polls into competitive contests in many battleground states. Meanwhile, Clinton was stumbling through one of the worst stretches of her campaign, a descent from the lofty post-convention weeks, when Trump was floundering, to fresh controversy over emails, the Clinton Foundation and questions about her guardedness.

But Trump's team proved unequal to a candidate determined to play by his own rules and who had famously remarked that his advisers could say what they wanted about him but that only he could say what he believed. Somehow, Trump managed to change the discussion at the worst possible moment.

It's not as if he hadn't been forewarned that the birther issue remained a problem. More than once in recent weeks, he was asked about it. Fox News's Bill O'Reilly put the question to him earlier this month, linking Trump's history on the issue to the candidate's calls to African American voters to give him a fresh look. He dismissed those questions. He didn't want to talk about it anymore, he said without giving a straightforward answer.

Inquiries about what Trump believed prompted campaign advisers to claim that he now accepted that Obama's birthplace was the United States. The candidate, however, would never confirm those claims, leaving the issue to fester. When The Washington Post's Robert Costa asked Trump about the issue aboard the candidate's airplane on Wednesday night, Trump hedged, once again too clever by half — and the issue blew up in his face.

The publication of Costa's report on Thursday evening set off a scramble inside Trump's campaign. Just after 10:15 p.m., a tortured statement was issued in the name of the campaign's communications director that gave political spin a bad name. It asserted anew that Trump did accept that Obama was born in the United States, although the statement was still in someone else's voice. It also repeated the false claim that it was Clinton who had given birth to birtherism during the 2008 campaign.

That assertion is based in part on a memo written in March 2007 by Clinton's chief strategist, Mark Penn, urging the campaign to make note of Obama's “lack of American roots.” His advice was dismissed by others in the campaign. Some Clinton supporters distributed emails toward the end of the 2008 primaries spreading rumors that questioned Obama's birthplace. Other claims have been offered but without any evidence that Clinton or her campaign did what Trump's team has asserted, according to fact checkers.


Reporters shout questions at Donald Trump during a campaign event on September 16th at Trump International Hotel in Washington. — Photograph: Evan Vucci/Associated Press.
Reporters shout questions at Donald Trump during a campaign event on September 16th at Trump International Hotel
in Washington. — Photograph: Evan Vucci/Associated Press.


The campaign's Thursday night statement also sought to make Trump the hero of the whole story for having prompted Obama to release his long-form birth certificate and thereby answer the question of his birthplace once and for all, as if it were actually in doubt. The campaign email said, “Mr. Trump did a great service to the president and the country by bringing closure to the issue.”

That last statement could not withstand even the skimpiest of scrutiny. Trump himself never accepted that version of events. If he had actually ended the controversy in the spring of 2011, he somehow refused to act on it, continuing to raise doubts about Obama's birthplace for years afterward, insinuating there was still something fishy there.

Trump's behavior helped give comfort to the many Americans who still believed that Obama was neither born in the United States nor a Christian. It is not surprising that African Americans and others see racism at the root of this ugly chapter of the Obama presidency.

Trump's decisions to push the birther issue in 2011 and then not give it up even after the president's birth certificate was released will always be part of his history. He cannot wash it away with one terse statement and an exhortation to everyone to move on. Voters can judge him on the totality of that record.


• Dan Balz is Chief Correspondent at The Washington Post. He has served as the paper's National Editor, Political Editor, White House correspondent and Southwest correspondent.

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Related stories:

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« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2016, 05:35:22 pm »

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A 1991 literary promotional booklet identified Barack Obama as having been born in Kenya.







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So are you telling us that when Donald Trump declared the other day that Barak Obama was BORN in the USA, he was full-of-shit?

Oh, dear....you worship an idiot who is full of shit!!   
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Bombshell: ‘Washington Post’ Confirms Hillary Clinton Started the Birther Movement



New analysis from the Washington Post removes any doubt that the anti-Obama Birther movement was started in 2007 and 2008 by Hillary Clinton, her campaign, and her Democrat supporters.

As Breitbart News reported earlier this month, other left-wing media outlets, like Politico and the Guardian, had already traced the Birther movement back to Democrats and Ms. Clinton. Using his wayback machine on Wednesday, the Post‘s David Weigel took an in-depth look at the origins of the false rumors that President Obama is a practicing Muslim who was not born in a America. Weigel’s reporting contains the final pieces of a very disturbing puzzle.

What Weigel found and re-reported was astounding, details many of us had forgotten or never heard of, including a 2007 bombshell memo from the Clinton campaign’s chief strategist.

What the left-wing Weigel left out of his reporting was even more astounding, including a documented confrontation between Clinton and Obama over the Birther issue, and video of Hillary herself stoking doubt about Obama’s Christian faith.

Because the Washington Post‘s primary job  is to protect Democrats, Weigel’s headline and conclusion are an objective lie. Despite the fact that what he uncovered (and chose to not cover) points directly to Ms. Clinton and her campaign, Weigel concludes she had nothing to do with the Birther movement.

Naturally, Weigel’s own facts support the exact opposite conclusion.

His research, however, is all that matters.

 

Defcon 4: Mark Penn’s March 2007 Strategy Memo

Everything began in March of 2007 when Hillary’s chief strategist, Mark Penn, wrote a now-infamous campaign memo laying out his overall plan to win the election.

Weigel sums up the Birther elements of Penn’s memo as a nothingburger; indeed, according to Weigel, the memo actually proves that the Clinton campaign wanted nothing to do with Birtherism: “But Penn wrote that as a warning, not a strategy,” Weigel writes.

While most of Weigel’s lies in his defense of Clinton are of omission and deflection, the wrist-flicking of Penn’s memo is pure audacity.

Because this is important, I’m not asking anyone to believe my interpretation of the memo. You can read the memo for yourself here. Below are two mainstream media sources. [emphasis added] As you’ll see, the idea that the memo was a warning against “othering” Obama is preposterous:

The Atlantic:

[Penn] wrote, “I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values.” Penn proposed targeting Obama’s “lack of American roots.”

Bloomberg

The idea of going after Obama’s otherness dates back to the last presidential election—and to Democrats. … Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist, Mark Penn, recognized this potential vulnerability in Obama and sought to exploit it. … Penn wrote: … “[H]is roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited. I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and his values.”

Penn also suggested how the campaign might take advantage of this. “Every speech should contain the line that you were born in the middle of America to the middle class in the middle of the last century,” he advised Clinton. “And talk about the basic bargain as about [sic] the deeply American values you grew up with, learned as a child, and that drive you today.” He went on: “Let’s explicitly own ‘American’ in our programs, the speeches and the values. He doesn’t … Let’s add flag symbols to the backgrounds [of campaign events].”

Bloomberg adds: “Penn was not a birther.”

His memo didn’t raise the issue of Obama’s citizenship. Furthermore, he was acutely aware of the political danger that a Democrat would court by going after Obama in this way, even subliminally: “We are never going to say anything about his background,” he wrote.

That is what the memo said. The truth, though, is that the attacks on Obama’s background would come the following year, and those attacks would not only come from Hillary’s supporters but directly from her own campaign and her own mouth during a nationally televised 60 Minutes interview.

In March of 2007, the campaign could afford to attack Obama’s otherness “subliminally.”

By the following year, as the primary losses mounted, the gloves came completely off.

 

Defcon 3: Hillary Clinton and Her Supporters Birth ‘Birtherism’

Weigel’s superb reporting uncovered how the Clinton campaign and legions of diehard Clinton supporters took Penn’s othering campaign and the questions surrounding Obama’s faith and birthplace to the next level.

It was no longer subliminal.

By now Clinton’s 2008 presidential aspirations were in serious jeopardy. Pay special attention to what Weigel writes about John Heilemann. Weigel’s lie of omission here is crucial and I’ll address it below:  [emphasis added]

According to John Heilemann and Mark Halperin in Game Change, the most ludicrous “othering” theory that Clinton allies engaged in was that a tape existed, somewhere, of Michelle Obama denouncing “whitey” — and that Clinton herself believed it when consigliere Sid Blumenthal talked about it.

But the Clinton campaign never pursued the idea that Obama was literally not American, and therefore ineligible for the presidency. A small group of hardcore Clinton supporters did. Specifically, anyone reading the fringe Web in the summer of 2008 could find the now-defunct blog called TexasDarlin, the now-defunct blog PUMAParty, and the now-conservative blog HillBuzz posting updates on the hunt for a birth certificate. It was a thin reed, and they knew it.

“It looks like Obama was born in Hawaii, based on a recently discovered birth announcement found in a Hawaiian newspaper,” one HillBuzz blogger wrote in July 2008. “It also looks like the reason Obama refuses to produce his actual birth certificate is that it very likely records dual Kenyan and U.S.  citizenship at Obama’s birth.”

Weigel’s sleight of hand here is genius. Let’s unpack the lies of omission.

1. Weigel uses Bloomberg’s John Heilemann as a witness for the defense of Hillary but intentionally chooses not to tell his readers that a mere two days earlier, on Monday, Heilemann confirmed on MSNBC’s Morning Joe that the Birther movement began with the Clinton campaign.

Again, I’m going to quote a left-wing source:

Host Joe Scarborough called Clinton’s attack on Trump “rich,” saying, “For Hillary Clinton to come out and criticize anybody for spreading the rumors about Barack Obama, when it all started … with her and her campaign passing things around in the Democratic primary[.] … This started with Hillary Clinton, and it was spread by the Clinton team in 2008.” …

Heilemann, author of the insider account of the 2008 election Game Change, said it was the case that Clinton spread the rumors. “It was the case,” he said. “I’m affirming the Scarborough-Brzezinski assertion.”

2. Weigel also chose not to report:

It was not until April 2008, at the height of the intensely bitter Democratic presidential primary process, that the touch paper was properly lit.

An anonymous email circulated by supporters of Mrs. Clinton, Mr Obama’s main rival for the party’s nomination, thrust a new allegation into the national spotlight — that he had not been born in Hawaii.

3. Pretending to be naïve, Weigel uses these third party Democrat attacks on Obama’s identity as proof! that Hillary’s hands are clean, you know, because it’s her supporters raising the conspiracy, and not Hillary.

Apparently, it’s only Republicans who are held accountable for the actions of their supporters.

Apparently, only Republicans are capable of coordinating with outside groups to do their dirty work.

Despite more smoke than you’ll find in Jeff Spicoli’s van, Weigel uses that smoke as proof that there is no fire. This isn’t journalism, it’s desperate partisan spin.

4. Weigel says nothing about the Clinton campaign’s shattering silence during this smear campaign.

5. Weigel doesn’t want his readers to know that Barack Obama himself believes Hillary Clinton started the Birther rumors, even though this fact was reported by no less than Weigel’s own employer at The Washington Post:

Obama and Clinton were both at Reagan National Airport on their way to Iowa for a [2007] debate, and the candidates met on the tarmac for what became a brief but heated conversation. Then-Obama personal aide Reggie Love witnessed the event and describes it in his new memoir:

[Obama] very respectfully told her the apology was kind, but largely meaningless, given the emails it was rumored her camp had been sending out labeling him as a Muslim. Before he could finish his sentence, she exploded on Obama. In a matter of seconds, she went from composed to furious. It had not been Obama’s intention to upset her, but he wasn’t going to play the fool either.

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Perhaps Donald Trump should be brave and do what he is advocating somebody else should do and withdraw his own armed security bodyguards.

I betcha he'd end up wearing a bullet internally within 24 hours, which is why he is no doubt too much of a gutless coward to do what he advocates others should do.



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trump already admits he is armed and often carries his own personal weapon

trumps point is hillary and obama want to take the law abiding americans guns away, so trump is merely questioning if hillary would like to practice what she preaches.

meanwhile trump supports the 2nd amendment right of us citizens to be armed for their own self defence

so unless you're going mad or either grasping at straws because you think hillary is losing the election what's the point of you're stupid cartoon
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Are you sick of the bullshit from the sewer stream media spewed out from the usual Ken and Barby dickless talking point look a likes.

If you want to know what's going on in the real world...
And the many things that will personally effect you.
Go to
http://www.infowars.com/

AND WAKE THE F_ _K UP

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