7 of Donald Trump’s Own Tweets and Comments Prove He Is Trying to Rewrite His Nasty Birther History

Trump in February 2015: ‘I Don’t Know Where He Was Born. I Would Like to See His College Records, I Think That’s Important.’

Donald Trump’s campaign late Thursday night released a statement saying the GOP nominee not only “believes that President Obama was born in the United States,” but that Trump is the one who deserves credit for “bringing closure to the issue.”

Just for the record, Trump is one of the main advocates for birtherism, the racist lie that President Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen and was not born in America. Behind it? The deeply-rooted desire to “prove” Obama isn’t “one of us,” he’s an “other,” and illegitimate. 

If the Trump campaign statement were not stunning enough, it continued with this:

“In 2011, Mr. Trump was finally able to bring this ugly incident to its conclusion by successfully compelling President Obama to release his birth certificate.”

So Trump is trying to re-write his own ugly, nasty, racist birther history.

Why?

One campaign spokesman Thursday night said Trump was unaware how deeply the African American community was hurt by Trump’s birther statements. So he’s doing this to try to win more African American votes – or stir up more racist agitation.

Already, pundits like Bill Kristol and Don Lemon have said Trump will get credit, or deserves credit, for putting the birther issue behind him.

Hopefully they’re wrong.

Why?

Because Trump’s campaign statement is an outright fabrication. A lie.

Trump not only did not bring the birther issue to a conclusion in 2011, as recently as last year he continued to make public statements saying he doesn’t know where Barack Obama was born. 

Here’s a collection of comments, including a wide variety of tweets, all from Donald Trump, all proving he either was lying when he claimed President Obama’s place of birth was unknown, or he’s lying now claiming he believes Obama was born in America. 

August 2012:

September 2013:

October 2013:

December 2013:

September 2014:

February 2015:

“Hey look,” Trump told Sean Hannity at CPAC, President Obama “wrote a book when he was a young man and it said ‘born in Kenya,’ blah blah blah. I don’t know where he was born. I would like to see his college records, I think that’s important.

“As far as the birth certificate, Hillary Clinton wanted his birth certificate. Hillary is a birther. She wanted it but she wasn’t able to get it. John McCain fought really hard and really viciously to get his birth certificate. John McCain failed. Couldn’t get it. Trump comes along – and I’m not a sitting senator, I’m not a sitting anything else, I’m a good businessman – but Trump comes along and I said, ‘Birth certificate.’ He gave a birth certificate.

“Whether or not that was a real certificate, because a lot of people question it, I certainly question it—but Hillary Clinton wanted it, McCain wanted it, and I wanted it. He didn’t do it for them, he did it for me. So in one sense I’m proud of it. Now all we have to do is find out whether or not it’s real.”

There is more, this is just a quick first look.

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