Trump Brings Back Birtherism Taunts
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🗓️ 23 January 2024
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That means Trump's fire is concentrated on Haley — a daughter of Indian immigrants. And he's using that heritage to try to undermine Haley's candidacy, and stoke concern about her legitimacy for the presidency.
For the record, that concern is unfounded – Haley, as the Constitution dictates, is a natural-born US citizen.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly and Senior Editor and Correspondent Domenico Montanaro dissect the reasons WHY Trump keeps returning to this particular political playbook.
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| 0:00.0 | It started in early 2011. |
| 0:03.0 | I want him to show his first certificate. |
| 0:06.0 | There's something on that birth certificate that he doesn't like. |
| 0:09.0 | Donald Trump, back when he was thinking about challenging Barack Obama, |
| 0:13.6 | spent weeks questioning Obama's birthplace |
| 0:16.4 | and the legitimacy of his presidency. |
| 0:18.9 | And I'll tell you what, I brought it up just routinely, |
| 0:21.8 | and all of a sudden a lot of facts are emerging and I'm |
| 0:24.8 | starting to wonder myself whether or that he was born in this country. |
| 0:28.0 | Because to be president you have to be a natural born US citizen. |
| 0:33.1 | Trump continued to so doubt about Obama's legitimacy going on talk shows |
| 0:38.0 | and pressuring Obama to release his birth certificate. |
| 0:41.1 | He doesn't have a birth certificate or if he does there's |
| 0:44.1 | something on that certificate that is very bad for him. All while Trump was |
| 0:48.6 | teasing a run for president himself. And if he wasn't born in this country which is a real possibility I'm not |
| 0:54.4 | saying it happened I'm saying it's a real possibility much greater than I thought |
| 0:58.2 | two or three weeks ago then he has pulled one of the great cons and the history of |
| 1:02.1 | politics. |
| 1:03.0 | Trump was so relentless in his hammering on the birther issue that in April of that same year, |
| 1:08.5 | the White House released a long-form version of Obama's birth certificate. |
| 1:12.8 | I know that there's going to be a segment of people for which no matter what we put out, |
| 1:19.8 | this issue will not be put to rest. |
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