Let us continue our exploration with Birtherism and the rise of Donald Trump
Remember
-the rumor started in 2004
-took off in 2008
-Barack Obama told russia and the "Family" to STFU at the National Prayer Breakfast in 2010
Then came Donald Trump
Dondal Trump first brought up Birtherism in 2011 at CPAC, when he was first exploring a Presidential Run
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Trump would immediately hop on phons and call Joseph Farah, Jerome Corsi's partner in crime at World News Daily
“What can we do to get to the bottom of this?” Mr. Trump asked him. “What can we do to turn the tide?” Trump and Joseph Farrah 
Trump would go on the View in March of 2011 and say Obama was hiding something in his birth certificate 
Five days later on March 28, 2011 Trump would appear on @foxnews to claim Obama wasn't born in America
@FoxNews Then Lauren Ingraham and say
"There's something on that certificate that is very bad for him. Now, somebody told me
it might have 'Muslim.' And if you're a Muslim, you don't change your religion, by the way."
@FoxNews and @NBCNews and the @TODAYshow would platform Trump's birther lies in 2011
"I have people that have been studying [Obama's birth certificate] and they cannot believe what they're finding"
Nobody ever got in trouble for any of these lies
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow Trump would head from the Today show to @morningjoe to make the same lies on April 7, 2011
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@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe Then later that day [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) released his long form Birth Cerificate
And [@realdonaldtrump](https://micro.blog/realdonaldtrump) pretended the "issue" was resolved, for a hot minuteobamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/04/2…
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) Once the Romney campaign kicked off Trump became @GOP besties again and started pushing birther lies
Y'all gotta stop thinking MAGA happened over night or that Tim Pool and Tenet Media are isolated events
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@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP The Tea Party trolls of the Kich Network and @FoxNews like Dick Morris were proud of Trump's birther stance
It legitimizes his candidacy,” Dick Morris told Bill O’Reilly in April 2011. “It empowers Trump,”
Bill O'Reilly felt the same
Birtherism made Trump into the @GOP
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP Then @CNBC would pick up and run with Trump's birtherism in 2012
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@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC And Trumped hopped right back on the Birtherism lie
Nobody ever stopped these lies, nobody ever got in trouble for Birtherism
There is no MAGA without Birtherism attacks on [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) 
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC Trump would go as far to start saying people were being assassinated to hide Obama's Birth Certificate
Shamefully exploiting a tragic plane crash:
Trump was always a man of no moral character hawaiinewsnow.com/story/31899587…
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC Trump would start gearing up for a Presidential run in 2014 with Birtherism:
If you don't think the Mercers and Steve Bannon weren't tracking and pushing these lies through Cambridge Anaylitca and Palantir...that's crazybuzzfeednews.com/article/andrew…
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC Trump's entire campaign was run on racism and lies
Trump claimed to Wolf Blitzer on January 6, 2016 that he would write his own book on Barack's citizenship
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@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC Birtherism would get tied up with Benghazi and Barack protecting Muslim's in secret and needing to be Impeached
Impeachment Theater been a key @gop strategy since Council for National Policy's Winter 1997 meeting
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC All of the Birthers wanted to Impeach [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama)
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC And the disinfo campaign pushed by Mercers, Trump, @foxnews, and Russia worked
By 2013 64% of Republicans think Obama is hiding something about his past 
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC And of course we would get an Agenda21 throwback with Birtherism
We can't leave out Big Oil and the John Birch Society
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC Once 2016 election was in full swing all the russian backed assets, like Roger Stone, and the super racist publications like Post & Mail took up the Birtherism mantel
It had fallen out of mainstream but thrived in "alternate media"
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC By the time the 2016 Election rolls around now a whopping 72% of Republicans doubt President Obama’s citizenship
russia, Cambridge Analytica, Breitbart and @foxnews made it so a whopping 3 out of 4 @gop members did not believe Obama was a citizen
That's how MAGA happened
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC And it didn't stop in 2016
By 2020 the Claremont Institute which gave us the likes of John Eastman and Piss Boy Poso were pushing Birther lies
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC In 2023 the National Federation of Republican Assemblies would pass a Birther resolution
Their legal justification Dred Scott case ...Hwe icky
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC And let's throw in some flat earthers from Georgia...why not
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC And then perennial crying Laura Loomer,
when not trying to bed her next nazi conquest
would start off another birther rage about Kamala Harris's birth certificate
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC Birtherism of [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) really hit it's two decade mark this year.
It has been 14 years since President Obama asked Evangelicals, russia, and the NRA to stop at the National Prayer Breakfast in 2010
yet the othering coninues
Think it may be trolls? and a Black thing?
some lesser known names over the twenty years
Kenneth Allen-Plaintiff in Orley Taitz case
Pamela Barnett who brings in a Western Journalism connection with he book Obama Never Vetted: The Unlawful President,
Tom Arnold-Report Obama to police for stealing social security #
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC You got Dianna Cotter, who literally wrote for russian media and tied up with Leo Donofrio, a Birther lawyer filing lots of suits
Frank Gaffney..because if it is an Islamaphobia narrative, Gaffney isn't far behind
Bradlee Dean...beause what is Birtherism without some Evangelical Christian Heavy Metal
You have Mikhail Kryzhanovsk and his piece Является ли Барак Обама шпион КГБ? It sounds a little russian, me thinks
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC Dean Haskins would go as far as organizing a birther summit conference.
..But sure it's all organic no Koch and russian money
No rentech, i360, or Cambridge analytica data meshes, ever, I am sure
Entire legal strategy behind birtherism and Orley Taitz just SCREAMS Larry Klayman @tomfitton and @JudicialWatch
Klayman was all over Birtherism
@judicial watch is a key point between CNP, Evangelicals, MAGA, and russia
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC @TomFitton @JudicialWatch @judicial If you think the @GOP using the Libertarian Party is new..well ask Gail Lightfoot about Birtherism
She was a litigant in the lawsuits 
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC @TomFitton @JudicialWatch @judicial Miki Booth was a Birther who ran as Fr candidate for U.S. House of Representatives Dist. 2 OK
Colonel Lawrence Sellin Ret was a speaker at the Birther Summit
Lyle Rapacki fancied himself a forensic investigator
so many weirdos, nobody stopped it
@FoxNews @NBCNews @TODAYshow @MorningJoe [@BarackObama](https://micro.blog/BarackObama) [@realDonaldTrump](https://micro.blog/realDonaldTrump) @GOP @CNBC @TomFitton @JudicialWatch @judicial hey @threadreaderapp unroll