Birtherism is embedded in Trump’s campaign. Just look at who spoke at Trump’s event
A birther!
Updated by Jeff Stein @JStein_Vox Sep 16, 2016, 1:40p
Birther and retired Air Force Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney introducing Donald Trump today ... at an event disavowing Birtherism. (CSPAN screengrab)
Donald Trump sure has a strange way of trying to make clear that he’s disavowing the “birther” conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama’s birthplace.
On Friday, Trump gave a press conference in which he said he now believes Obama was born in the US, reversing years of unfounded accusations. He then tried to falsely pin the origin of the conspiracy theory on Hillary Clinton, going so far as to take credit for helping to debunk it.
Less noticed was that even during this late and half-hearted acknowledgement, Trump stood right next to — and was even introduced by — a leading advocate of the birther movement: retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney.
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