But Trump wasn’t satisfied with merely denying his own public statements. He went further, claiming that it was actually Hillary Clinton who was responsible for birtherism. The “evidence” brought out to support this claim is ludicrous. At first, the Trump campaign seized on the fact that Hillary Clinton fired a campaign volunteer in 2008 who forwarded an email suggesting Obama was a Muslim. This, of course, is the opposite of perpetuating a conspiracy.
Later a reporter claimed that Sidney Blumenthal, a friend of the Clintons but not a member of the 2008 campaign, approached him privately and encouraged him to investigate rumors that Obama was born in Africa. Blumenthal denies the allegations. But even if the allegations were true, this is not at all equivalent to Trump’s public, five-year campaign to sow doubts about Obama’s legitimacy as president.
Multiple news organizations fact checked this claim and found no facts to support it.
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