Name:   copperline - Subject:   Trump the birther Date:   9/16/2016 11:38:17 PM

Are Trump supporters simply going to overlook what has happened here?   Trump made the birther thing into his main marketing plank for several years, collecting & encouraging people to believe the President was an alien.... an imposter who had taken over the White House.   He used that story line to whip up lots of people... many here on this forum... who believed he was telling them the truth.

Now he finally says this.   OK, but now what?  Are we supposed to forget how he used this misleading junk on us?   He says he knows it wasn't true now.  I think the next questions should be "At what point in all this did you decide you were wrong?"   What specific piece of information, or conversation , or research finally arrived and changed your mind?"   

But really, one question should be "Do you think you owe an apology to all those people who heard you and believed you, & responded to your campaign suggestions with a great deal of outrage, suspicion & outright condemnation of the POTUS?"

Personally, I think Trump has come up with a marketing strategy that is somehow bringing people to hold contradictory opinions.   Trump is a man of character.   But Trump makes things up, uses these things, then casts them aside.   In order to support Trump, you have to ignore a lot of what you know, see & hear.

Better dust off your copy of Orwell's 1984 and remind yourself what "double-think" means.