Donald Trump’s ridiculous claim that Hillary Clinton started the birther movement

[jpak]

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. She’s the one that started it. She brought it up years before it was brought up by me.”

— Donald Trump, interview with CNN’s 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 Obama’s 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

yup

[Mike Nelson]

1. This lie...

...is repeated on FOX during their chatting sessions. It's even been repeated here on DU.

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. And, it will be posted to DU, again.

[spanone]

5. yep, it was recently posted here.

[1StrongBlackMan]

9. As I wrote the other day ... It's kind of sad ...

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]

10. trolls! they're everywhere

[DetlefK]

3. Prediction: In 2 years, Fox News will claim that Obama coined "Obamacare" out of vanity.

Instead of Fox News coining the term to tie the Affordable Care Act to Obama's then-low ratings.

[Android3.14]

4. As if.

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.

[Jokerman]

7. +1

[sorefeet]

6. What ever happened to Trumps

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.

[Nitram]

8. To paraphrase: a lot of sound and fury, signifying absolutely nothing.