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Ed Mazza\n<\/a>The Hufffington Post<\/span><\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s former campaign manager reignited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/04\/27\/obama-birth-certificate-r_n_854248.html\" data-beacon=\"{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":1}}\">long-debunked \u201cbirther\u201d conspiracy theory<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Corey Lewandowski, now a CNN analyst\/in-house Trump surrogate, suggested that President Barack Obama hadn\u2019t released his Harvard transcripts because they might show he wasn\u2019t a citizen of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The bizarre claim came after political commentator Angela Rye noted that Trump\u2019s attacks on the president began long before the election season, as Trump had repeatedly demanded that Obama release his birth certificate and college transcripts to prove he was an American.<\/p>\n<p>It was a passing example of how Trump has been verbally assaulting the president since at least 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski seized on that opening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell,\u00a0you raised the issue, I\u2019m just asking,\u201d Lewandowski said in a clip posted online by Media Matters.\u00a0\u201cYou raised the issue, did he ever release his transcripts or his admission to Harvard University? You raised the issue, so just \u2018yes,\u2019\u00a0or \u2018no\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After some back-and-forth, Lewandowski went into full birther mode:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe only reason it\u2019s germane is because she brought the issue up, and said Donald Trump raised the issue of his Harvard transcripts. And I just simply said \u2018have those ever been released?\u2019 And the question was \u2018did he get in as a U.S. citizen, or was he brought in to Harvard University as a citizen who wasn\u2019t from this country?\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump made the \u201cbirther\u201d conspiracy theory a core issue when he was toying with the possibility of entering the 2012 presidential race. While he hasn\u2019t spoken about the issue lately, he has never disavowed it.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about it last year by Stephen Colbert on the \u201cLate Show,\u201d Trump refused to acknowledge that the president was indeed an American citizen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-stephen-colbert-birther_us_56022a33e4b00310edf92f7a\" data-beacon=\"{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":2}}\">I don\u2019t talk about that anymore<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0was all he could muster.<\/p>\n<p>Obama, for the record, has released both his \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/rss_viewer\/birth-certificate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" data-beacon=\"{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":3}}\">short-form<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2011\/04\/27\/president-obamas-long-form-birth-certificate\" target=\"_blank\" data-beacon=\"{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":4}}\">long-form<\/a>\u201d birth certificates. In addition, two Honolulu newspapers printed birth announcements at the time.\u00a0Speaking at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner after the release of the long-form birth certificate, Obama said Trump \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UIkxoq0agNo\" target=\"_blank\" data-beacon=\"{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":5}}\">can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter, like, did we fake the moon landing<\/a>?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former campaign manager brings back what was once Trump\u2019s core issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s former campaign manager reignited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/04\/27\/obama-birth-certificate-r_n_854248.html\" data-beacon=\"{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":1}}\">long-debunked \u201cbirther\u201d conspiracy theory<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Corey Lewandowski, now a CNN analyst\/in-house Trump surrogate, suggested that President Barack Obama hadn\u2019t released his Harvard transcripts because they might show he wasn\u2019t a citizen of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The bizarre claim came after political commentator Angela Rye noted that Trump\u2019s attacks on the president began long before the election season, as Trump had repeatedly demanded that Obama release his birth certificate and college transcripts to prove he was an American.<\/p>\n<p>It was a passing example of how Trump has been verbally assaulting the president since at least 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski seized on that opening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell,\u00a0you raised the issue, I\u2019m just asking,\u201d Lewandowski said in a clip posted online by Media Matters.\u00a0\u201cYou raised the issue, did he ever release his transcripts or his admission to Harvard University? You raised the issue, so just \u2018yes,\u2019\u00a0or \u2018no\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After some back-and-forth, Lewandowski went into full birther mode:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe only reason it\u2019s germane is because she brought the issue up, and said Donald Trump raised the issue of his Harvard transcripts. And I just simply said \u2018have those ever been released?\u2019 And the question was \u2018did he get in as a U.S. citizen, or was he brought in to Harvard University as a citizen who wasn\u2019t from this country?\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump made the \u201cbirther\u201d conspiracy theory a core issue when he was toying with the possibility of entering the 2012 presidential race. While he hasn\u2019t spoken about the issue lately, he has never disavowed it.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about it last year by Stephen Colbert on the \u201cLate Show,\u201d Trump refused to acknowledge that the president was indeed an American citizen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-stephen-colbert-birther_us_56022a33e4b00310edf92f7a\" data-beacon=\"{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":2}}\">I don\u2019t talk about that anymore<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0was all he could muster.<\/p>\n<p>Obama, for the record, has released both his \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/rss_viewer\/birth-certificate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" data-beacon=\"{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":3}}\">short-form<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2011\/04\/27\/president-obamas-long-form-birth-certificate\" target=\"_blank\" data-beacon=\"{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":4}}\">long-form<\/a>\u201d birth certificates. In addition, two Honolulu newspapers printed birth announcements at the time.\u00a0Speaking at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner after the release of the long-form birth certificate, Obama said Trump \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UIkxoq0agNo\" target=\"_blank\" data-beacon=\"{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":5}}\">can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter, like, did we fake the moon landing<\/a>?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former campaign manager brings back what was once Trump\u2019s core issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}