The Trump Organization has reportedly edited out a reference in President Trump's corporate biography that highlights his involvement in the birther movement, which aimed to prove the baseless assertion that former President Obama was not born in the United States.
The controversial line read, "in 2011, after failed attempts by both Senator McCain and Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump single handedly forced President Obama to release his birth certificate, which was lauded by large segments of the political community."
The organization removed the line, which had been part of Trump's bio as early as August 2015, CNN's KFile reported Tuesday, pointing to a recent review of the Internet Archive.
The change likely took place around the time of Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20, sometime between Jan. 13 and Jan. 24, according to the report.
The removed birther line also echoed Trump's accusation on the campaign trail that Clinton had started the birther conspiracy during her 2008 presidential campaign.
“Hillary Clinton in her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it,” Trump said in September 2016.
Of course that accusation was debunked quite a while ago, but factual inaccuracy is surely not the reason the Trump Organization would remove that statement from the biography.
However an attempt to revise history is a far more likely reason.
Trump is clearly trying to create distance between himself and his racist base, and believes that this well help to accomplish that.
Unfortunately for him those of us who deal in facts have long memories.
We will NEVER forget who he is, and what he has done.
Never.
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