It's Not Just Birtherism: The Long List Of Trump's Dark Conspiracy-Mongering

[DonViejo]

If only one could – after years of peddling a race-baiting conspiracy theory– walk up to a lectern, declare Obama was born in America in a few breaths and walk away without consequences.

Sorry, Donald Trump, that is not how it works. And even if he could, birtherism is just the tip of the Trump conspiracy iceberg.

It is just one in a long list of half-baked, racially-charged, historically inaccurate, mean-spirited attacks Trump has projected on his opponents in recent years. Need proof? Behold, a long list of Trump's conspiracy theories in recent years.

Trump Claims People At Columbia Don't Remember Obama

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Trump Again Casts Doubt On How Obama Got Into The Ivy Leagues

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"I heard he was a terrible student, terrible," Trump told the Associated Press. "How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard? I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his records."

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Bill Ayres Wrote Obama's Autobiography

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Trump Perpetuated Bogus Crime Data

Trump retweeted a graphic of fake crime data in 2015 that alleged that 81 percent of the white homicide victims in the United States were killed by black people. At the time many news outlets quickly corrected the information. CNN reported that in fact the FBI statistics showed that "of the 3,021 homicides of white people in 2014, 82 percent were committed by white people, while 15 percent of the offenders were black."

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Trump Claims Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia's Death Was Fishy

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[wiggs]

1. Points out one of the ways media is shaping public opinion. They isolate issues, distilling a

record of poor behavior down to one facet such as the birther deal. We have to pretend that trump AND THE GOP don't have a horrendous record of racist / dominance speech and actions.

LET THEIR RECORD inform how to interpret their current remarks. Don't let them get away with gray shading and explanations of mis-speaking or mis-interpretation. Good god...it should be easy for journalists and pundits to use the google machine and do some research. But they aren't interested in putting issues to rest, coming to conclusion, shedding light. Confused viewers will continue to watch a battle of memes between two surrogates, which is nearly worthless in advancing public discourse.

Thanks for the post and for showing msm how to do their jobs