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24 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
On this day in 2012, (via @Trumphop) Trump was on a tweet-storm demanding that President Obama release records to prove he was born in the U.S., pushing the racist lie that the nation's first black president wasn't born in the U.S.

2/ Not surprisingly, Trump found plenty of support in right-wing media for his racist nonsensical birtherism.

3/ It wasn't just that day. For months Trump posted videos, tweets and more trying to undermine the nation's first black president as not a "real" American.

4/ It was such a distraction and had found such an audience in the GOP, President Obama had already sent aides to Hawaii to obtain a copy of his long-form birth certificate. That was in April 2012; six months later Trump was still demanding more.

washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/…
5/ Incidentally, *six* years ago today Trump was attacking President Obama for how he handled a pandemic.

Ultimately no one who contracted ebola in the U.S. died from it.

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