{"id":49107,"date":"2016-09-16T18:43:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T18:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49107"},"modified":"2016-09-16T18:50:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T18:50:25","slug":"trump-drops-false-birther-theory-but-floats-a-new-one-clinton-started-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49107","title":{"rendered":"Trump Drops False \u2018Birther\u2019 Theory, but Floats a New One: Clinton Started It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/17\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-birther-obama.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Trump Drops False \u2018Birther\u2019 Theory, but Floats a New One: Clinton Started It<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2016-09-16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maggieNYT\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Maggie Haberman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arappeport\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Alan Rapperport<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\">Donald J. Trump<\/a> publicly retreated from his \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories\" target=\"_blank\">birther<\/a>\u201d campaign on Friday, tersely acknowledging that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> was born in the United States and saying that he wanted to move on from the conspiracy theory that he has been clinging to for years.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump made no apology for and took no questions about what had amounted to a five-year-long smear of the nation\u2019s first black president. Instead, he claimed, falsely, that questions about Mr. Obama\u2019s citizenship were initially stirred by the Democratic presidential nominee, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hillary_Clinton\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>, in her unsuccessful primary contest with Mr. Obama in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Mr. Trump\u2019s brief remarks, tacked onto the end of a campaign appearance with military veterans at his new hotel in downtown <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington,_D.C.\" target=\"_blank\">Washington<\/a>, amounted to a sharp reversal from a position he has publicly maintained, over howls of outrage from all but the far-right extreme of the political spectrum, since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Barack Obama was born in the United States, period,\u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cNow, we all want to get back to making America strong and great again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump\u2019s refusal to disavow the birther issue helped drive his standing among black voters to historically low levels, with some public opinion polls showing him supported by zero percent of African-Americans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Mr. Trump made no apology for and took no questions about what had amounted to a five-year-long smear of the nation\u2019s first black president. Instead, he claimed, falsely, that questions about Mr. Obama\u2019s citizenship were initially stirred by the Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, in her unsuccessful primary contest with Mr. Obama in 2008&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/17\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-birther-obama.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Drops False \u2018Birther\u2019 Theory, but Floats a New One: Clinton Started It The New York Times 2016-09-16 Maggie Haberman Alan Rapperport Donald J. Trump publicly retreated from his \u201cbirther\u201d campaign on Friday, tersely acknowledging that President Obama was born in the United States and saying that he wanted to move on from the conspiracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20],"tags":[24985,24986,21057,9500,19370,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-49107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-alan-rapperport","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-maggie-haberman","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49108,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49107\/revisions\/49108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}