{"id":22926,"date":"2016-09-16T12:13:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=22926"},"modified":"2016-09-16T12:13:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T17:13:08","slug":"trumps-latest-outrageous-claim-obama-born-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/16\/trumps-latest-outrageous-claim-obama-born-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Latest Outrageous Claim: Obama Born In US"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;After years of peddling a false conspiracy theory that President Obama wasn&#8217;t born in the United States, Donald Trump \u2014 just 53 days before Election Day \u2014 now says he believes the president was born in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Obama was born in the United States. Period,&#8221; Trump said at a campaign event in a ballroom in his new hotel in Washington. &#8220;Now, we want to get back to &#8230; (bla bla bla).&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/09\/16\/494231757\/without-apology-trump-now-says-obama-was-born-in-the-u-s\">NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is clearly going to hurt Donald Trump with his base.  The accusation to begin with wad deplorable, after all.<\/p>\n<p>That was today, a few minutes ago.<\/p>\n<p>But yesterday &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Start about midway:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_abirther_160915' height='500' width='635' scrolling='no' border='no' ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_bfavors_160915' height='500' width='635' scrolling='no' border='no' ><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;After years of peddling a false conspiracy theory that President Obama wasn&#8217;t born in the United States, Donald Trump \u2014 just 53 days before Election Day \u2014 now says he believes the president was born in the U.S. &#8220;President Obama was born in the United States. Period,&#8221; Trump said at a campaign event in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/16\/trumps-latest-outrageous-claim-obama-born-in-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump&#8217;s Latest Outrageous Claim: Obama Born In US<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2134,2135,2116,774,772,1949,964],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5XM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}