Just hours before joining Mitt Romney at a campaign fundraising event in Nevada, Donald Trump decided to spend even more time spewing nonsense about his favorite conspiracy theory.
"A lot of people are questioning his birth certificate," Trump said of President Obama on CNBC's Squawk Box. "They're questioning the authenticity of his birth certificate. I've been known as being a very smart guy for a long time. I don't consider myself birther or not birther, but there are some major questions here and the press doesn't want to cover it."
Well, if the reality-show host, who's gone bankrupt four times, has been known for being a very smart guy for a long time, I suppose that settles it.
Mitt Romney not only gave this clown a prominent role in his presidential campaign, he still refuses to distance himself from Trump, even as the guy's ridiculous antics intensify. Why? Because according to Romney, he needs to "get 50.1% or more" of the vote, and if that means palling around buffoons, so be it. Decency is a luxury the multi-millionaire apparently cannot afford.
Leaders -- those with character and courage, who command respect -- are supposed to know better. But Romney has a list of priorities, and demonstrating leadership isn't on it.
Incidentally, Igor Volsky noted that in October, when Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) partnered with right-wing pastor Robert Jeffress, Romney demanded that Perry "repudiate" him. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), a leading Romney surrogate, added that for a national candidate to stand with a offensive character was "beneath the office of president of the United States."
One wonders if Romney thinks he'll look presidential in Las Vegas tonight.
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I love how Trump has to tell us how smart he is as though that is proof of his assertions.
Tell me why OBIGOT has sealed most all of his records?
Why has he been so secretive about his past?
Why did his grandmom say he was from Kenya?
What about his book he wrote that said he was from Kenya?
namvet
All records are sealed for privacy purposes
He wrote a book about his past. How secretive is that?
The old lady is rattled
He never said in any book that he was from Kenya. He said his father was from Kenya.
Now I know you'll believe a word I write because actually you're the bigot.
Trump has the Fox News manufactured thing down. "A lot of people say.....", provides the excuse to treat anything as "news" as if one is just being fair and balanced.
So, a lot of people say that Donald is just a relentless self promoter out to plump his TV ratings as the rest of his "empire" is not doing so well.
Paid flunkies who are afraid you'll fire them for saying the wrong thing or not agreeing with your batsh!t insane ideas do not count as "a lot of people"; someone needs to remind Trump of this.
So Donald has no questions about Senor Mitts birth certificate? Interesting.
I hardly even agree with George Will (except baseball) but 'bloviating ignoramus' and 'making a lot of money is not evidence of a high IQ' strike me as just RIGHT in describing The Donald. Myself, I just call him an attention seeking POS and Romney as the 'perfectly self-lubricating weathervane' will just keep on keeping on with these jerks.
It's a scam.
The guy has to stay on the TV or loose his show.
It's unfortunate that CNBC has lowered itself to these standards. At what point does a media outlet cease to give forums to people like this?
Stop the nonsense.
Just for fun I'm going to take the bait.
If Barrack Obama was born in Kenya, shouldn't there be a record if of his entry, as an infant, into the United States? Or did the Communist, Fascist, Mau-Mau loving, gays in the Dept. of State scrub the records, knowing that he would be elected President of the United States in 2008?
That is interesting..I have read/heard that birthers do point out that there is a missing week around the time of his birth - apparently his mother was traveling during this week - from the immigration records. I think it was that sheriff in AZ that requested the microfilm(fiche?) and that one week was blurred or compressed so that no documents could be seen. IF you were a birther you would find this fishy. I am not sure of its validity. They also repeatedly bring up his college records which I think ARE sealed (Trump brought this up again too). They say his records are sealed because they would show that he got student aid for "foreign" students - and that is why his records are sealed. Again, I am not a birther, but I do not know why his records are sealed. The man graduated with honors from Harvard, but his records are not available. If I graduated from Harvard with honors I would have them on a billboard :).
Oh, stop beating the weeds for scandal! All we need to know is 'Obama is Black'. Or at least black enough for us to cast our vote elsewhere. . .
Of course, Progressives love it when the GuanoNutz throw their money- and energy- down a rat hole!
His college records are sealed, as mine are, because all college records are sealed under Federal privacy laws.
Just because birthers say all those things doesn't mean they're true. Since most of what they claim is blatantly false and easily disproven, it's up to them to provide actual sources; it's not up to the rest of us to scramble disproving whatever bull@!$%# they sling.
His college records aren't "sealed"; they're private, just like everyone else's. If I apply for a job, I can request that my college transcript be sent to them, but some random person can't just contact my college and ask for it. If I graduated from Harvard with honors, I would know that every sane person would accept that without my having to put every detail on a billboard to satisfy insane conspiracy theorists.
You do know that "I'm not a birther, but.." telegraphs to everyone that you're a birther, right?
Redshift,
You may not know me that well here. I do tend to bring up points like the birther crap just as an FYI. I really am not a birther - he is a citizen and he is the POTUS. I like to keep up on what is going on - from all sides - so I look into what is being talked/blogged about so I can debate/comment on the topic. I was merely pointing out some of the finer points of what those yahoos (birthers) are saying is their evidence. And as for the college transcripts - yes they are private, but I do think that most Presidential candidates routinely release their college records (that is how we know GW was an average student, if that). So....if this certain candidate/President - who already has a bunch of folks questioning his eligibilty - decides not to voluntarily release things like his college records just adds to their silly little conspiracy fire.
It doesn't matter to me if you or anyone else thinks I am a birther....I am not. I just think that "knowing your enemy" (in this case birthers or outright racists) is an advantage, especially when it comes to debunking their theories. I personally find this issue amusing and I take it for the proverbial grain of salt, but I still like to know what they are basing thier "theories" on. That's all.
CNBC is pandering to this load of crap. They are on a race to the bottom with the other bottom feeder FOX News.
Maybe CNBC is just positioning in the event of the demise of FOX News to take over the market share.
Romney judges a man not by the color of his skin, but by the color of his money.
RM, Trump... Still a mystery? Not really. The reason and/or the answer: He believes he is simply promoting family's mandate "Trumped Up Charges....Carry On, Regardless"
All above fictional. Any similarity to real person(s), place(s), event(s) coincidental. Not responsible for errors. The story to be continued.
Mitt does NOT need 50.1% of the popular vote.
Mitt needs 270+ electoral votes to win.
Mitt continues to lie and mislead.
I think you're giving him too much credit here. On this particular point, he's just an idiot. I hope someone in his campaign explains the electoral college to him soon.
Or not ... we like us some stupid Mitt who will miscalculate his campaign based on that Texas Schoolbook common knowlege
Wait ... does that mean whoever gets the majority of the votes is elected president? Does former President Gore know that?
All I can say is : Thank You Donald .
The fetid stink of your self promoting racist soul will waft over the Romney campaign like a dead rat in the attic... which reminds me of a Wodehouse quote that is appropriate ;
His whole attitude recalled irresistibly to the mind that of some assiduous hound who will persist in laying a dead rat on the drawing-room carpet,
though repeatedly apprised by word and gesture that the market for same is sluggish or even non-existent.
WILLARD MITTENS ROMNEY: SHOW US YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!
You say you were born in America, but your family comes from MEXICO.
Were you really born here, or on your family estate in MEXICO?
Was your family visiting there, or is America your second home??
Are you really an Anchor Baby??
We demand to see your long form birth certificate. The original paper one, not the fake one someone made up and put on the Web. And also the hospital certificate, and newspaper announcements--the original newsprint announcements!
If we don't have all that, you may be asking America to vote for a Mexican National! Don't turn America over to a stealth alien. Show us the proof.
Willard Mittens Romney: El candidato Manchuriano.
Viva la reconquista!
El candidato Manchuriano.
............I really like that one.
Feel libre to use it at any Romney mitin.
As my momma used to say, "If you have to tell someone how smart you are, you ain't."
I cannot for the life of me understand why people could ever take seriously a multiple bankrupt filing, lie promoting (oh, but I do not consider myself a birther reveals in egomaniacal terms the furthering of a falsehood to promote whomever is the nominess to pander to birthers who don't consider themselves birthers- w h a t ?) aristocrat. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/aristocrat People that view themselves entitled. It seems to be the perfect fit, though, Mitt and the Donald-both egocentric self absorbed unconcerned souls that would throw anyone under a bus to make themselves and co-horts more wealthy. Maybe there is another party emerging… the Aristocrat party.
After he loses the election, Mitt is going to be washing the Trump Taint off of his hands for months.
" washing Trump Taint off his hands for months"
Eooooow I need brain bleach after that image! Mitt with Trump's taint on his hands. That's too disgusting. Yeah I went there everyone. :-)
Trump can't possibly be as smart or as wealthy as he claims to be; who with half a brain or that kind of money would appear publicly with that hair?
Trump's money provides excellent insulation from reality.
I think Trump should be Romney's VP selection.
Yes, there's the danger they might win, but that would be my cue to emigrate.
EVEN IF he were born in Kenya, with a full blooded American citizen mother -- or is Trump thinking his mother was also a phony and was really a black African???? -- he qualifies to be president.
So really, what is this about in fact? It's similar to the Romney/ D'Souza idea of painting Obama with the anti-colonial brush of African movements -- to paint him as a Mau Mau, in other words, and align him with the all too common "scary black man" theme.
Really, Trump is preposterous and always has been. But this effort to depict Obama as filled with 'black rage' is so dated (late 60's anyone?) and stale that it is not only risible: he should be hooted off the airwaves for good.
Actually, no, he would not qualify, as you must be born on US soil. Not just born to citizen parents. Children who are born in foreign countries while their parents are on vacation there are not eligible to be POTUS.
Actually, this has never been ruled on by the SC.
Mitt's dad ran for president, he was born in Mexico.
No one stopped him.
McCain was born in the Canal Zone, not the US.
No one stopped him.
Complete and utter fiction. The Constitution only states that all persons born or naturalized in the US and subject to US jurisdiction are citizens, and that only persons born citizens qualify to be president. There are only those two classes of citizenship: born and made. The rest you just made up. It is not possible under the law to be both born a citizen and not be qualified to be president. If you think that it is, you must cite the relevant statute or court case to prove your claim. The text of the Constitution is not your friend in this.
But for the accident of his birth as the son of an already-rich man, Donald Trump at best would have turned out to be a small-time con artist, with plenty of time spent in prison for his various cons, if not beaten to death by one of his victims. I doubt he'd have made it as far as John Cusak's character did in "The Grifters"
Romney will scoop up whatever The Donald can raise and then throw him under the bus.
time to start hammering them on their lies. If Romney tacitly accepts Trump's lies, call him on it. There needs to be a constant appeal on Rachel's show for these idiots to either present evidence for their lies or to recant them. They need to be held responsible.
Decency is a luxury the multi-millionaire apparently cannot afford.
You've nailed it yet again, Steve.
There is a big difference between Mr. Romney and Mr. Trump. Romney will change his stance on anything while Mr. Trump can not. Isn't it quite likely that Mr. Trump's bankruptcies and investments have been a result of a bull headed sense of certainty and perhaps Mr. Romney emulates that? Governor Christy has that same stubborn attitude....Paul Ryan does too. Maybe Romney hopes that by association, that ability to 'sound' like he believes what comes out of his mouth will rub off....
While it is well and good to rightfully criticize the Donald and his dubious relationship to Mr. Romney, however, we have had our fun and it is time for the charade to end. From a character perspective, what this says about Mr. Romney, on many levels, disqualifies him as a serious candidate for President. Why? Mr. Romney's inability to produce a John McCain moment and stand up to the racist element in his party demonstrates that what we already know to be true about Mr. Romney; his lack of a core, is true. Whether one agrees or not with all of the policy decisions made by the current POTUS, what we do know, based upon fours years of experience, who he is and he is not a racist nor would he tolerate such behavior in his campaign. Lastly, we've had our fun it is now time to do what was done to Russ Limbaugh when he got out of his cage, put him back in. Maybe it's time the sponsors of the Donald's lame show got a call
They both seem to be throwing feces, don't they?