I expect the mainstream media to drop the anti-Trump foray into stigmatizing Donald Trump as a racist for noting the anomalies in the then-public documentation of Barack Obama.  Pinning leadership of “the birther movement” (how come I never got invited to any of their events?) on Trump sounded good at first.  But as I explained four days ago, it was a trap, because hacked emails reveal consideration of exploiting Obama’s “otherness” and concluded that no fingerprints should be visible, and because close associates of Hillary peddled the story to the media back in the 2008 nomination fight. And among Hillary’s male associates, nobody is closer than Sidney Blumenthal, who went on the Clinton Foundation payroll at ten grand a month as a consultant on Libya.  And now the birther trap is closing on Blumenthal, as his evasions and lies are demolished.  Mark Hemingway has done a lot of research in a masterful debunking in his Weekly...(Read Full Post)