{"id":667,"date":"2016-09-20T03:56:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T03:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=667"},"modified":"2016-09-21T17:49:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T17:49:22","slug":"donald-trump-and-his-associates-disgraceful-birtherism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump and His Associates&#8217;s Disgraceful Birtherism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack&nbsp;Obama was born in the US.&nbsp;We all knew it in 2004, in 2008, in 2012. Now, holy cow, even Donald Trump agrees that&#8217;s true. Boy genius!<\/p>\n<p>But why did Trump spend seven years insinuating that Obama wasn&#8217;t born in the US?<\/p>\n<p>Was it because there were legitimate questions? Or was it because Trump could gain political advantage by exploiting the prejudices of people who weren&#8217;t comfortable having a Black man with an unusual name as president?<\/p>\n<p>Where do you stand?<\/p>\n<p>This story is a good resource:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2016\/09\/priebus_pence_christie_conway_all_lie_about_birtherism.html\">http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2016\/09\/priebus_pence_christie_conway_all_lie_about_birtherism.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack&nbsp;Obama was born in the US.&nbsp;We all knew it in 2004, in 2008, in 2012. Now, holy cow, even Donald Trump agrees that&#8217;s true. Boy genius! But why did Trump spend seven years insinuating that Obama wasn&#8217;t born in the US? Was it because there were legitimate questions? Or was it because Trump could gain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=667\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donald Trump and His Associates&#8217;s Disgraceful Birtherism<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link","category-news","category-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}