Black Trump surrogate continues birther myth
After Rudy Giuliani said Trump is owed an apology for being called a racist and defending his birtherism on CNN, a black Trump surrogate added fuel to the fire on MSNBC.
…Trump surrogate Paris Dennard said over the weekend that black voters knew that there were “legitimate questions” about President Barack Obama’s birth certificate…
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“I think idea that members of my community are somehow sitting around the kitchen table and wondering, ‘Donald Trump, should he apologize for raising legitimate questions about the birth certificate of President Obama?’ That’s not the main issue today,” Dennard said. “That’s not what’s on the minds of people in my community.”“You say that it was a legitimate issue,” MSNBC host Alex Witt replied. “It’s not a legitimate issue. Let’s be real. Come on. And this was something that was started by Donald Trump back in the day. It could be something, if he were to apologize, people would see, ‘Alright, I’m capable of apology. I have a change of heart. I realize that it was wrong to put so much into this birther movement.’”
“Don’t you think that would go a long way?” the MSNBC anchor asked.
“I believe that if truth be told, it was Hillary Clinton and the Clinton campaign in ’08 who started this whisper campaign about President Obama,” Dennard insisted. “Would it help if Hillary Clinton apologized for calling Donald Trump a racist, a bigot and all these things that are unsubstantiated? I don’t think that’s going to move the needle.”
The fact checking website Politifact has examined Trump’s claim that Clinton started the birther movement and determined it to be “false.”
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