"Something fishy about the whole thing"
by digby
So Trump said today that Hillary Clinton started the birther rumor and that he was the one who ended it. It's all her fault and the issue has been settled. It's all over.
For once the press doesn't seem to be buying it and are pushing back hard on his lies even the part about Clinton which is unusual. But then he also made the fatal error of promising to take questions and then not doing it and his campaign pushed around a pool reporter and wanted the press to broadcast a live advertisement for his new hotel in DC without asking him any questions. They refused and they're angry about what happened. So they may stay on this issue today. (Remember, it's all about them.)
Trump is a racist piece of work and we've known that for a very long time. He was tweeting this stuff as recently as 2014. Slate captured them all. Here's the most recent:
Here's a compilation of the despicable lies he told on TV:
Apparently, they wanted to "get this out of the way" before the debates so it wouldn't be brought up. I'm going to guess it's going to be brought up.
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