Although it started with Clinton in the primary it was Trump who really pushed it.
You don't need to remind me of that. I remember.
Posted by BellRinger at 2024-11-23 11:51 PM | Reply
It wasn't Hillary that started it. It was one of her ardent supporters.
www.factcheck.org
The second article, which ran several days after the Politico piece, was published by the Telegraph, a British paper, which stated: "An anonymous email circulated by supporters of Mrs Clinton, Mr Obama's main rival for the party's nomination, thrust a new allegation into the national spotlight " that he had not been born in Hawaii."
Both of those stories comport with what we here at FactCheck.org wrote two-and-a-half years earlier, on Nov. 8, 2008: "This claim was first advanced by diehard Hillary Clinton supporters as her campaign for the party's nomination faded, and has enjoyed a revival among John McCain's partisans as he fell substantially behind Obama in public opinion polls."
Claims about Obama's birthplace appeared in chain emails bouncing around the Web, and one of the first lawsuits over Obama's birth certificate was filed by Philip Berg, a former deputy Pennsylvania attorney general and a self-described "moderate to liberal" who supported Clinton.
