4 Mar 2020 12:29 pm
Hatchetmen......ROFL.Termin8tor » 04 Mar 2020 6:31 am » wrote:When are you going to stop citing Fake News sources, psycho?Misty » 03 Mar 2020 6:20 pm » wrote:No, I never called her a racist because like most things you say, that is a bald faced lie.THE GAPING ASSHOLE SAID:Actually it was Hillary Clinton who was the first Birther. I don't recall you ever calling her a racist.
You believe every filthy lie that the Liar-In-Chief tells you.
Hillary is smart enough not to put her fingerprints directly on it, so she has trusted hatchetmen do it.
John Fund......Termin8tor » 04 Mar 2020 6:31 am » wrote:Just like she colluded with the Russians through Fusion GPS.
Sidney Blumenthal, Birtherism, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
By JOHN FUND
Hillary Clinton’s 2008 supporters set in motion Trump’s candidacy when they began spreading rumors that Barack Obama had been born in a foreign country. It wasn’t until 2011 that Donald Trump picked up that bizarre torch and ran with it, only to finally drop it in September when it was clearly a spent flame.
The same mainstream media that slammed Trump for his birther obsession has long failed to properly mention its origins in the “dark ops” wing of the 2008 Hillary campaign. As Britain’s Telegraph reported in 2011: In April 2008, “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.” The first lawsuit to make birther claims was filed by Phil Berg, a Democratic attorney and a Hillary Clinton supporter.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/11/ ... p-victory/
And you talk about my FAKE News sources?
After years of denying the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s presidency, it was only in the midst of his own presidential campaign that Donald Trump began falsely claiming Hillary Clinton was the true progenitor of the “birther” conspiracy theory claiming Obama was not born in the United States.
But that’s swapping one discredited claim for another.
Numerous fact checks, reports and interviews — in 2008 and 2011, when Trump revived the controversy — revealed that although some Clinton supporters circulated rumors about Obama’s citizenship, the campaign and Clinton herself never trafficked in it.
“There has never been evidence that Clinton or her campaign started the birther rumors,” said Ben Smith, editor in chief of BuzzFeed, who as a POLITICO reporter in 2011 linked the origin of the “birther” movement to a fringe politician in Illinois.
Some hardcore Clinton backers circulated the rumors in 2008, but the campaign itself steered clear.
“As we reported, some of her supporters flirted with the idea in 2008 — but it has its origins in the fever swamps beginning in Illinois in 2004,” he said.
In fact, birtherism, as it’s been called, reportedly began with innuendo by serial Illinois political candidate Andy Martin, who painted Obama as a closet Muslim in 2004.
That spiraled into a concerted effort by conspiracy theorists to raise doubts about Obama’s birthplace and religion — and essentially paint him as un-American.
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Clinton’s former senior aide Patti Solis Doyle acknowledged that a volunteer coordinator in Iowa forwarded a birther-related email.
“Hillary made the decision immediately let that person go,” she said.
“We let that person go. It was so beyond the pale of the campaign Hillary wanted to run and that we as a staff wanted to run that I called David Plouffe who was managing Barack Obama to apologize to say this is not coming from us, that this was rogue volunteer.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/ ... ton-228304