Weekend News Hosts Battled With Donald Trump’s Surrogates Over Five-Year Birther Conspiracy
Donald Trump’s acknowledgement of President Obama being born in the United States on Friday, 16, continues to be an issue the press will not put to rest, but neither will the Trump campaign, which was apparent when his campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, GOP strategist Alex Castellanos, and vice presidential running mate Mike Pence — as Inquisitr also wrote about — were on all three of last week’s Sunday morning news round-up shows, doing public relations for the billionaire.
Another Inquisitr article talks about Donald Trump as if he had “eaten crow,” when he finally admitted to the president’s actual birth origins, but then positioned himself during the same press conference to suggest that the birther issue was a great waste of his time.
But Donald Trump also gave the news outlets something to chew on, with suggestions that Hillary Clinton started the birther controversy during the 2008 campaign, which all of the anchors on the weekend news shows disputed.
Kellyanne Conway On Face The Nation
Trump aide blames Clinton campaign for “birther” movement https://t.co/cWKfR2tjkQ
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) September 18, 2016
When Kellyanne Conway was on Face The Nation, there was a constant back-and-forth between journalist John Dickerson and the campaign manager for Donald Trump, before she finally said to his question as to why Donald Trump had been lying for five years that John Dickerson would have to ask him. One pundit would later say of her suggestion that she had just given the open door that the birther controversy was not over.
But this was also the case on Meet The Press where Chuck Todd went after Kellyanne Conway, trying to get her to answer his questions about why Donald Trump perpetuated the birther issue for five years, but she would always go back to Hillary Clinton originating the conspiracy.
During This Week with George Stephanopoulos, which is referred to in the Inquisitr article mentioned above, another pundit suggested that Donald Trump’s campaign was trying to unload their baggage before the upcoming debate in the final stretch to the end of the presidential race.
Mike Pence Attacks Media, Deflects Focus Off Birther Conspiracy
.@mike_pence on @realDonaldTrump's birther comments: "He brought that issue to an end this week." https://t.co/U9K27wuawS #ThisWeek
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) September 18, 2016
But the other issue is about the suggestion that those looking into this birther controversy were wasting his precious time, which in itself should be obscene because initially, it was in fact Donald Trump who has wasted everyone else’s time for about five years, building up the mass momentum for the “birther” movement in order to discredit the president.
That in fact is the reason why Donald Trump is credited with leading that front against President Obama. Not because Hillary Clinton’s volunteers forwarded email from a campaign strategist who suggested that Obama’s heritage was un-American, but because he led the movement for half a decade.
Donald Trump Owned Birther Conspiracy For At Least Five Years
Mark Penn is the campaign aide who all of Donald Trump’s surrogates blame for the birther controversy, with the memo he sent out via email which, according to one article by ABC News, was forwarded by a volunteer who was immediately fired.
The article also provides links to the 67 times that Donald Trump tweeted out about the birther controversy, long after Hillary Clinton put a stop to who his loyalists are committed to referring to as the source of the conspiracy.
Two things to note here are the idea that everyone else is wasting Donald Trump’s time with the birther issue and the claim that Hillary Clinton started the conspiracy.
In all three of the Sunday morning shows, the surrogates for Donald Trump were busy dismissing the five years he kept bringing up the conspiracy, which in itself is deflecting, and that Donald Trump blames everyone else for bringing it up is part of their plan to ignore those years and those referred to tweets along with it, in order to make people believe that the momentum of the birther conspiracy from Donald Trump has nothing to do with why it prevailed in the first place.
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