I checked to see who started the birther thing regarding Obama. I found it came from a group that referred to itself as PUMA (Political Unity My Ass). This was a group of pro-Hillary Clinton people who in 2008 felt that Hillary and not Obama should be the Democratic nominee for president. They felt Hillary had been cheated and they were not going to take it lying down. It was they who first questioned Obama's place of birth.
They argued that Obama's mother had lived with his father for a short period of time in Kenya and that, because of her pregnancy, she was not allowed to travel by air back to Hawaii for Obama's birth. This was false. But, it was Hillary supporters who nurtured this rumor, not Trump. Only much later did Trump say that maybe PUMA might have had it right. He no doubt should have examined this issue more thoroughly, but he had nothing to do with starting the rumor. It was indeed the Hillary people who did that. But, of course, by this time we know Hillary is really good at establishing deniability when it comes to anything she might have done or did not do.
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