8/ It was never plausible. But the media networks covered it breathlessly. Republicans had a chance to do the right thing and many passed.
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9/ Many Republicans didn't want to offend their base, which despised Obama for taking the country far left. But the base was wrong.
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10/ Questioning President Obama's citizenship was a racial attack. Does anyone doubt Tim Scott or Mia Love was born in the US? Of course not
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11/ The birther episode showed us all we needed to know about Trump at that time. He should have been excommunicated. But he wasn't.
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12/ He started headlining GOP events, appearing on Fox and Friends weekly, talking to reporters, traveling the country. He benefited.
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13/ The conservative movement should have purged him then. He's never been a conservative. He's a carnival barker. He's not a patriot.
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14/ The birther episode concluded w/ the White House Correspondent's Dinner, which Trump attended. Trump was being celebrated in attendance.
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15/ Instead of isolating Trump, Obama made him an everyday Republican, and sharply and mercilessly insulted him. Trump was seething.
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16/ Had our movement already purged him he would have been all alone. But by then he'd made friends in the GOP and conservative media.
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17/ I believe the feeling of embarrassment and rage that Trump felt that night at the WHCD dinner is what drove him to run for President.
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Trump's been talking about running for president since 1985. He explored option before 2011,
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He was talking seriously about it in 1999-2000, and Rona Barrett asked him about it back in 1981
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