During his presidential campaign, Trump has readily trafficked in other theories that are the stuff of American supermarket tabloids. In making his announcement on Friday, Trump advanced a widely debunked claim that Clinton and her 2008 campaign had been the original birthers. Penn eventually left the Clinton campaign, and his advice was never acted upon. “He had the audacity to spout a new lie about the birther movement that he helped to build,” it said. “I was pretty confident about where I was born.”Trump’s embrace of the birther movement has incensed black Americans, whose votes Trump has been trying to court.

Source: New Strait Times September 16, 2016 23:03 UTC