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IDemo

(16,926 posts)
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 07:46 AM Jul 2015

Trump says he still doesn't know where Obama was born

Source: CNN

New York (CNN)Donald Trump is standing his ground.

The billionaire businessman was unapologetic -- and as defiant as ever -- about a number of controversies that have inundated his presidential campaign in a wide-ranging interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper that aired on Wednesday and Thursday.

The brash real estate mogul and former host of the reality TV show, "The Apprentice," has come under attack for referring to some immigrants coming into the United States as "rapists." Trump also addressed head-on a Washington Post report that said there were illegal immigrants working at one of Trump's hotel construction sites in Washington. And he said he still isn't totally convinced President Barack Obama was born in this country.

Speaking at the Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan, Trump also took on his fellow presidential candidates and insisted of his long-shot White House bid: "I'm in it to win it."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/08/politics/donald-trump-illegal-immigrant-workers/

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Trump says he still doesn't know where Obama was born (Original Post) IDemo Jul 2015 OP
Stay Classy Donald Botany Jul 2015 #1
But it's a big conspiracy started before he was born Renew Deal Jul 2015 #3
Those Kenyan Muslim Socialists are a tricky bunch ..... Botany Jul 2015 #7
You moron, Trump! gregcrawford Jul 2015 #22
Yeah. That's what they remind us when it comes to Ted Cruz. maddiemom Jul 2015 #24
And Cruz has the Canadian birth certificate to prove it. SwankyXomb Jul 2015 #31
Birthers have the Ted Cruz issue covered EL34x4 Jul 2015 #38
First prez to even be questioned about his birth let alone required to prove it...America is FULL of randys1 Jul 2015 #27
Trump also says he can't find his ass with both hands roguevalley Jul 2015 #42
Didn't Trump claim a while back Dale Neiburg Jul 2015 #2
He was challenged on that by one interviewer I saw passnobuck Jul 2015 #5
He had top men working on it... PoliticAverse Jul 2015 #11
haha ya rtracey Jul 2015 #35
Says the guy who refuses to release his own birth certificate. I'd like to know where the..... marble falls Jul 2015 #4
It very much resembles... CANDO Jul 2015 #8
Or the south end of a north bound yak. marble falls Jul 2015 #12
EXCELLENT! gregcrawford Jul 2015 #23
Credit where credit is due... gregcrawford Jul 2015 #44
I am pleased! marble falls Jul 2015 #46
But we do know where Trump was born: bigot la-la land. sinkingfeeling Jul 2015 #6
All I've got is 5 small words: LibertyLover Jul 2015 #9
It would be nice Turbineguy Jul 2015 #10
not one interviewer has asked him to show evidence of Mex. sending criminals to US wordpix Jul 2015 #13
Hell, I don't know where I was born SCantiGOP Jul 2015 #14
Yeah I feel your pain kydo Jul 2015 #32
kydo-- SCantiGOP Jul 2015 #37
Funny how that works ain't it kydo Jul 2015 #40
Another republican revisionist history - Hawaii was once part of Kenya liberal N proud Jul 2015 #15
That's cool, because I still don't know from what rock Trump crawled out from under. bulloney Jul 2015 #16
All trump threads should be consolidated n/m FollowtheDough Jul 2015 #17
and americans WILL vote for this clown heaven05 Jul 2015 #18
And I don't know what planet Donald Trump is from! George II Jul 2015 #19
Republicans have to allow Trump on fox debates, he leads their polls. Sunlei Jul 2015 #20
Big deal, just because they found the rock you crawled out from under. jtuck004 Jul 2015 #21
And this guy Jeb Bartlet Jul 2015 #25
"The brash real estate mogul" Scootaloo Jul 2015 #26
Trump is a birther idiot Gothmog Jul 2015 #28
Trump has lost 2 big name chefs in his DC post office development... luvspeas Jul 2015 #29
But he's rich. Really, really rich. Billionare rich. pinto Jul 2015 #30
This is why the MSM is obsolete. They have been giving an inordinate amount of time to cover Trump still_one Jul 2015 #33
He's "in it to win itŪ." I_Like_Hammers Jul 2015 #34
Yeah, yeah, Donnie... jmowreader Jul 2015 #36
you don't interveiw Trump olddots Jul 2015 #39
He's in it to "winning" it! d_legendary1 Jul 2015 #41
...and it still doesn't matter where he was born, Donald. roamer65 Jul 2015 #43
That's because he has bricks between his ears. City Lights Jul 2015 #45
It would be helpful if he got his 'ead outta his arse. Cha Jul 2015 #47

Botany

(70,513 posts)
1. Stay Classy Donald
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 07:56 AM
Jul 2015


So not unless Obama owns a time machine it would be impossible to have his birth
annoucement in the newspapers because somebody had to call in or answer the
phone @ the hospital and give all the correct births and deaths and Barack's phony
one too to the Dept. of Health which is where the newspapers got their information.

Renew Deal

(81,861 posts)
3. But it's a big conspiracy started before he was born
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 08:14 AM
Jul 2015

To plant birth announcements in the 60's. And now he is president. Bwahahahaha

Botany

(70,513 posts)
7. Those Kenyan Muslim Socialists are a tricky bunch .....
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 08:34 AM
Jul 2015

.... Obama born in Africa and on the same day "they"planted birth announcements in Hawaiian
newspapers and then had a birth certificate placed into the state government's files.



Good thing that Rince Penis talked to Trump and asked him to back down on bat shit crazy stuff.

gregcrawford

(2,382 posts)
22. You moron, Trump!
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 01:49 PM
Jul 2015

If one parent is an American citizen, which his mother most certainly was, then it doesn't matter if he was born on the fuckin' MOON, He's still a citizen, too! So this asinine argument is utterly meaningless.

Christ, what a waste of skin that guy is.

 

EL34x4

(2,003 posts)
38. Birthers have the Ted Cruz issue covered
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 03:32 PM
Jul 2015

They'll twist themselves into a pretzel to explain how it is that a Kenyan-born (or even Hawaiian-born) Barack Obama is ineligible to be President while a Canadian-born Ted Cruz is perfectly eligible. They'll argue that unlike Cruz, Obama's mother was too young to transmit citizenship.

It's in the Constitution, doncha know! Just don't ask them to point out where in the Constitution.

randys1

(16,286 posts)
27. First prez to even be questioned about his birth let alone required to prove it...America is FULL of
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 02:31 PM
Jul 2015

racists

Dale Neiburg

(698 posts)
2. Didn't Trump claim a while back
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 08:10 AM
Jul 2015

that he had a team of PIs at work in Hawaii investigating Obama's birth? Didn't he say that people would be amazed at what they were turning up?

Maybe somebody might challenge him to go public with all those amazing findings.

 

passnobuck

(92 posts)
5. He was challenged on that by one interviewer I saw
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 08:16 AM
Jul 2015

He brushed it off. Didn't answer, diverted to something else.

In essence, as we all know, Trump is the ultimate liar. There was probably never any investigator.

 

rtracey

(2,062 posts)
35. haha ya
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 02:57 PM
Jul 2015

Hard to find out shit when your boss sends you to Hawaii, and you spend the days on the beach..... They probably went to the courthouse, found the birth certificate was real, said.. shit on this, sat on the beach for 4 days, came home and reported to Trump...Its real, no smoking gun.... Notice that after he said that and said he will announce his findings, he never did.......His interview with Katy Tur...he brushed it off as old news...

marble falls

(57,099 posts)
4. Says the guy who refuses to release his own birth certificate. I'd like to know where the.....
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 08:15 AM
Jul 2015

hair came from.

gregcrawford

(2,382 posts)
23. EXCELLENT!
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 01:52 PM
Jul 2015


I've often said that I was hungry enough to eat the south end of a northbound skunk. And it's way past lunchtime...

gregcrawford

(2,382 posts)
44. Credit where credit is due...
Sat Jul 11, 2015, 04:23 PM
Jul 2015

... just thought you'd like to know that I have credited you at the bottom of the art for inspiring tomorrow's cartoon!

Turbineguy

(37,337 posts)
10. It would be nice
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 08:59 AM
Jul 2015

if as President that's all he had to worry about. It would be bad if he were President, but that's all he worried about. Maybe he's trying to make Sarah Palin look like a good candidate?

wordpix

(18,652 posts)
13. not one interviewer has asked him to show evidence of Mex. sending criminals to US
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 09:18 AM
Jul 2015

Trump says this so convincingly and I want to know if it's true. But they send out little girls who can't stand up to him to interview him, and they ask their canned q's. But when he says something that's "new," they don't question.

SCantiGOP

(13,871 posts)
14. Hell, I don't know where I was born
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 09:26 AM
Jul 2015

I just have a birth certificate that says Nashville, Tennessee, but I really don't remember a thing about it. I couldn't even walk for a couple of years afterwards.

kydo

(2,679 posts)
32. Yeah I feel your pain
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 02:48 PM
Jul 2015

Same thing happened to me. My BC says Maine, and that was the one and only time I was ever in Maine. Don't remember a thing of the whole 24 hours that I was there.

I too didn't walk for about a year afterwards. Talking was touch and go at first as all I said was mama dada. No complete sentences and I had issues with the toilet, didn't know how, just peed and pooped my pants all the time.

kydo

(2,679 posts)
40. Funny how that works ain't it
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 04:14 PM
Jul 2015

We enter this world pooping our pants and we leave this world the same way. That's some crazy shit.

liberal N proud

(60,335 posts)
15. Another republican revisionist history - Hawaii was once part of Kenya
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 09:31 AM
Jul 2015

Even after it became a state in 1959, it was still part of Kenya. It was this wild Kenyan conspiracy to seat an Kenyan as a US President.

And they would have gotten away with it if it were not for Donald Trump and his band of merry birthers who figured it all out all by themselves.



 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
21. Big deal, just because they found the rock you crawled out from under.
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 11:56 AM
Jul 2015

I'm in it to win it."" <i.e. it's a marketing ploy wherein the press keeps giving him free minutes.

What a country.

Lying two-faced piece of crap. He is in it to influence, to advocate for worse positions than his conspirators so theirs don't seem so bad. Takes a lot of heat and ugliness off of them, which is then transferred to his hair. That's why it looks like that. Or maybe it's just naturally like that.

In any event, the idea has been planted in people's minds, so it doesn't seem so new, or so bad.

He reminds me of a scary clown.

luvspeas

(1,883 posts)
29. Trump has lost 2 big name chefs in his DC post office development...
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 02:33 PM
Jul 2015

watch how fast his head will spin once he starts hemorrhaging money. A new day will dawn and he will be Paula Deaning it all over the Today Show.

still_one

(92,216 posts)
33. This is why the MSM is obsolete. They have been giving an inordinate amount of time to cover Trump
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 02:53 PM
Jul 2015

verses the other candidates.

There are a lot of REAL issues to discuss between the candidates, but the MSM thinks it is cute. Is it any wonder that O'Malley hasn't got much coverage, except here on DU. It is because the media does NOT want to inform the public about where the candidates stand on the issues, they prefer to broadcast Trump's racist rants

I_Like_Hammers

(30 posts)
34. He's "in it to win itŪ."
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 02:54 PM
Jul 2015

And people "have no idea what he's worth," to which, toilets all across America reply "We know what he's worth, and it ain't pretty."

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
36. Yeah, yeah, Donnie...
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 03:20 PM
Jul 2015

Let's talk about your three marriages, four government bailouts, the fact you can't make up your mind which political party you're in, and the simple fact that the rank-and-file evangelicals who complain about sin are going to have a hell of a time bringing themselves to vote for a man who's made millions off it.

 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
39. you don't interveiw Trump
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 03:52 PM
Jul 2015

or converse with him .You play straightman to his comic genius ,he is a carny hawker loud mouthed fool who fools people into paying attention to him .

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
43. ...and it still doesn't matter where he was born, Donald.
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 11:07 PM
Jul 2015

His mother was a native born American citizen and the law in 1961 was he was that he was a native born American citizen due to that fact, regardless of place of birth. But keep it up, you idiot. I am intensely enjoying the discord you are bringing to the Rethug party.

Cha

(297,275 posts)
47. It would be helpful if he got his 'ead outta his arse.
Sat Jul 11, 2015, 10:02 PM
Jul 2015

turnip is in to show how damn dumb he is.

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