ADVERTISEMENTToday, Donald Trump pretended to end a lie and, in the process, told more lies. First, Trump promised the press that he would address the birther issue in a press conference at his new hotel in Washington this morning. But Trump and his allies had spent months building an alternative universe in which Clinton was hiding some sort of mysterious infirmity. In Trump World, that meant that Clinton was hiding some deep dark secret illness for nefarious reasons. Trump pretended that a racist conspiracy theory was true when it would help him get attention and win the support of the GOP's fringe.

Source: Huffington Post September 16, 2016 21:33 UTC