Donald Trump's Greatest Self-Contradictions Politico

. . . Over the past four decades Trump has talked about every imaginable subject: gun rights to germs, the nature of competition to pre-nuptial agreements, love and sex, self-promotion and politics. And on every one of those topics, he has taken positions that directly contradict exactly what he has previously said.

In a world where candidates have lost elections over a single flip-flop, Trump has turned the self-contradiction into an art form. To create the definitive archive of Trump’s long argument with himself, Politico mined an almost limitless seam of his radio and TV interviews, newspaper and magazine profiles, books written about him and books written by him, rambling campaign speeches and late-night tweets. Read them together and they reveal a person who may be amazingly good at gauging the moment, but whose principles, beyond simply winning, remain elusive—perhaps even to himself.

Did Hillary Clinton start the Obama birther movement? PolitiFact

FALSE

Donald Trump made news on CNN's Wolf Blitzer on May 4, 2016, resurrecting his accusation that Hillary Clinton launched the anti-Obama birther movement. PolitiFact rates this claim as FALSE!

John Avlon, editor-in-chief of the Daily Beast, explored the roots of the birther movement in his book Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America. Avlon described a posting on the PUMA. He wrote that a Clinton volunteer and convention delegate in Texas, Linda Starr, played a key role in spreading the rumor.

Reading 'Where's Linda Starr, the Inventor of the Birfer Story?, Starr does qualify as a Wingnut.

"Starr connected with Pennsylvania attorney Philip Berg in August and Berg followed up by suing in federal court to block Obama’s nomination. The suit was thrown out repeatedly on the grounds that Berg lacked standing and the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately refused to hear his appeal."

Subsequently, Phil Berg sued Linda Sue Belcher, aka Linda Starr, on behalf of his assistant Lisa Liberi for libel. Linda has ublicly accused Phil Berg of incompetence. These are the real nutjobs who invented the Obama birther story.

Hillary Clinton Not Involved in Birther Story

There is no record that Clinton herself or anyone within her campaign ever advanced the birther claims against now President Obama. A review by our fellow fact-checkers at Factcheck.org reported that no journalist who investigated this ever found a connection to anyone in the Clinton organization.

It seems that President Obama was satisfied with Clinton's innocence if he asked her to be his secretary of state.

Clinton, herself, addressed this outrageous accusation after Trump's tweet during an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon. Lemon asked Clinton if she started smear campaigns that Obama was born outside the United States.

"That is – no. That is so ludicrous, Don. You know, honestly, I just believe that, first of all, it’s totally untrue, and secondly, you know, the president and I have never had any kind of confrontation like that," Clinton said. "You know, I have been blamed for nearly everything, that was a new one to me."

The Atlantic reported that Clinton even rejected her campaign staff's divisive strategy in the 2008 campaign that played to Obama's lack of American roots. "Let's explicitly own 'American' in our programs, the speeches and the values. He doesn't" (Mark) Penn suggested. But he added: "We are never going to say anything about his background."

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