{"id":44110,"date":"2020-08-22T19:32:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T19:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44110"},"modified":"2020-08-22T19:32:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T19:32:41","slug":"birtherism-takes-new-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44110","title":{"rendered":"Birtherism takes new twist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The remarks of a desperate man are to be taken seriously, because there’s no tellin’ precisely what might fly out of his mouth.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump went to Scranton, Pa., this week and offered a truly bizarre twist to the “birtherism” theory that has become all the rage — yet again — among right-wing politicians.<\/p>\n

He said, according to the Huffington Post:<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019d say he was born here,\u201d Trump told listeners in Scranton. \u201cBut he left when he was like 8, 9 or 10. So he left 68 years ago, he left \u2014 a long time ago. So I view it differently. He wasn\u2019t born here. He abandoned Scranton!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump conceded: \u201cHis family had something to do with that, you know, his parents. But he left Scranton.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump is talking about Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who was born in Scranton, but left when his family moved to neighboring Delaware. Biden is proud of his Scranton roots and he mentions it often while campaigning for president.<\/p>\n

But what the hell is up with Trump suggesting that Biden might not have been born there?<\/p>\n

Someone might need to take Trump’s temperature. His desperation might be getting to him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The remarks of a desperate man are to be taken seriously, because there’s no tellin’ precisely what might fly out of his mouth. Donald Trump went to Scranton, Pa., this week and offered a truly bizarre twist to the “birtherism” theory that has become all the rage — yet again — among right-wing politicians. He … Continue reading Birtherism takes new twist<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[652,1424,2505],"class_list":["post-44110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-birther","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44112,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44110\/revisions\/44112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}