Here’s a timeline beginning in 2008 to 2011 of how Trump promoted a lie saying that Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States.

As late as 2017 Trump was continuing to question the veracity of Obama’s birth certificate.

President Donald Trump questioned the politics of his decision to finally acknowledge former President Barack Obama was born in the US, which he did late during the campaign in 2016, according to a source close to the White House. 

The source said that shortly after he made the statement, Trump told aides that he would have done better in the polls had he continued to stand his ground on the birth certificate issue. 

Trump has continued to question the legitimacy of Obama’s birth certificate during private conversations in recent months, The New York Times reported Tuesday, citing advisers who discussed Trump’s statements.

Trump still questioning Obama’s birthplace is just one of several instances The Times pointed to as examples of the President’s reliance on “manufactured facts,” as the newspaper reported Tuesday. 

One sitting US senator quoted by the Times, “who listened as the President revived his doubts” about the issue, “chuckled” when speaking about what was said. Trump “has had a hard time letting go of his claim that Mr. Obama was not born in the United States,” the senator, who “asked not to be named to discuss private conversations,” told The New York Times.

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The following is an excerpt from a New York Times article about Trump backtracking and saying the voice on the Access Hollywood bus tape might not be his. It references the Obama birth certificate lie.

One senator who listened as the president revived his doubts about Mr. Obama’s birth certificate chuckled on Tuesday as he recalled the conversation. The president, he said, has had a hard time letting go of his claim that Mr. Obama was not born in the United States. The senator asked not to be named to discuss private conversations.

Mr. Trump’s journeys into the realm of manufactured facts have been frequent enough that his own staff has sought to nudge friendly lawmakers to ask questions of Mr. Trump in meetings that will steer him toward safer terrain.

To the president’s critics, his conspiracy-mongering goes to the heart of why he poses a threat to the country.

“It’s dangerous to democracy; you’ve got to have shared facts,” Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, said in an interview on Tuesday. “And on so many of these, there’s empirical evidence that says no: You didn’t win the popular vote, there weren’t more people at your inauguration than ever, that was your voice on that tape, you admitted it before.”

It should be needless to point out that Trump has a visceral hate for Barack Obama with the proof being that he has confused him with President Biden seven or eight times in speeches.

This is from USA Today:

WASHINGTON − Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly referred to President Joe Biden as “Obama,” most recently in a campaign speech Saturday.

“Putin, you know, has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word,” Trump said at a rally in Virginia on Saturday. He later added, “We have a fool as a president.”

Trump has confused Biden and former President Barack Obama at least seven times before in recent months, according to Forbes.

Trump seemingly made the same mistake on Fox News last month when telling Sean Hannity that Obama is “going to end up being indicted when he leaves office” if the Supreme Court doesn’t endorse Trump’s expansive view of presidential immunity.

USA Today

Perhaps one of the reasons Obama lives in Trump’s brain as if he’s running against him is because his first attempt to promulgate a really big lie was a garganutan failure. He dared Obama to release a certified long form of his birth certificate apparently believing that his own wishful thinking or delusion would make this impossible. Strategically Obama held off on doing this allowing Trump to dig himself more deeply into a hole. When he did make it public Trump had major egg on his face and was the subject of ridicule.

Trump no doubt suffered through the eight years of Obama’s largely successful presidency in part because he had to be reminded that the attempt to prove he was an illegal president because he was born in Africa was the politcal equivalent of the Titanic sinking.

Trump is now having more success with his second big lie, that the election was stolen. Some 35 percent of Americans—including 68 percent of Republicans— believe this particular Big Lie.

After Three Years and Many Indictments, the “Big Lie” That Led to the January 6th Insurrection Is Still Believed by Most Republicans.

I’d like to see a poll asking whether Republicans believe Obama was really born in Africa.

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