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MAGA troll behind plot to smear Mueller kindles new racist birther movement to derail Kamala Harris
Jacob Wohl, an Internet troll who plotted to smear special counsel Robert Mueller as a sexual predator, has launched a new conspiracy theory falsely suggesting that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is not an American citizen.
In a tweet on Tuesday, Wohl said that Harris should be disqualified from the presidential race because her parents were not born in the U.S. The attack resembled racist birther claims that were made against President Barack Obama by President Donald Trump and others.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/maga-troll-behind-plot-smear-mueller-kindles-new-racist-birther-movement-derail-kamala-harris/
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)is not alone and the attack on our candidates will intensify.
I had a dream, by the way, people did NOT bad mouth our candidate last time and none of this happened.
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)Kahuna7
(2,531 posts)Last edited Tue Jan 22, 2019, 04:00 PM - Edit history (1)
on edit: He was getting dragged so severely that first he tried to claim that everybody misinterpreted his tweet. Then he just deleted it all together.
Link to tweet
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)the opportunists fools that you are.
These are the voices that gain traction is the republicscum party.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,485 posts)Last edited Tue Jan 22, 2019, 01:58 PM - Edit history (1)
Cruz was born in Canada of an American mother and Cuban exiled father.
The smear against Kamala Harris is going to go nowhere.
UpInArms
(51,253 posts)If McCain is elected president, he'd be the first born outside the 50 states.
But there's more than trivia at play. McCain's birthplace has given rise to one of the more vexing and inconvenient questions of the campaign season: If McCain wasn't physically born in the United States, can he be president?
Ultimately, the issue is rooted in legal opinions (albeit some stronger than others), not facts, and so PolitiFact's customary True-False ratings don't quite fit here. Speculation about how the Supreme Court might rule would be just that. But as the issue has been much discussed and argued, we thought it would be worthwhile to lay out some of the facts behind the main arguments.
Article II of the constitution states: "No person except a natural born citizen ... shall be eligible to the Office of President."
DavidDvorkin
(19,406 posts)What nonsense is this?
rurallib
(62,346 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,406 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,688 posts)Noticed this phenomenon.
grumpyduck
(6,199 posts)believe them. Unfortunately, too many people do both.
Honestly, sometimes I think that some people have this... pathological, or something... need to be angry and will find any excuse to do so. An old friend of mine who just happens to be a Republican still sends me stuff about Benghazi. Fourteen or so years later. WTF????
And please don't tell me what to do about him. We've been down this road before.
akraven
(1,975 posts)But Obama served 2 FULL terms... unlike the dude occupying OUR White House will.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Call it what it is...Racism
Sneederbunk
(14,208 posts)Also there were 7 presidents with at least one foreign-born parent.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)because the usual suspects on the alt-left are smearing Harris just as bad
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)pnwmom
(108,925 posts)And we KNOW he is a bastard, so . . .
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,085 posts)Just in case you don't think this has the Trump stamp of approval all over it.