The Donald Trump - Roger Stone show: Birth Harder
Every time Donald Trump steps in another pile of crazy racist conspiracy dogshit, the sane-and-happy demographic throws up its hands and asks, “Does he really believe what he’s saying? He can’t be serious!”
The answer is that it depends what you mean by “serious.” If you’re trying to get inside his mind like an armchair Freud, then good luck with that. But if you mean “politically serious” then it’s easier to answer.
“Yes” is the answer to that trick question, by the way—because Trump is an opportunist. And Islamophobia, Mexican- bashing and conspiracy-mongering are all yuuuge underexploited opportunities in the Republican primaries.
All this came up in a conversation I had recently with an old friend of mine who asked me what role Trump’s longtime partner-in-political-crime Roger Stone played in 2011, when Trump came out of nowhere to lead the Birther movement. It’s a good question to ask, because until Trump’s late conversion to Birtherism, he was mostly known as a kind of “liberal Republican” jerk, rather than a fringe-right Republican jerk.
As it turns out, a look back at the 2011 record shows that Trump’s lobbyist/political adviser/dirty trickster, Roger Stone, was all over The Donald’s Birther conversion. Which shouldn’t be a surprise.
https://pando.com/2015/09/29/birth-harder/acd22b5118a7f48970f740a5b0bf5e46f44be33c/
LOL at Greenwald's bullshit defense of Palin... I present your journalistic hero, ladies and gentlemen!