As noted earlier, Republicans are outraged—outraged!—that Democrats like civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis have dared to question the legitimacy Donald Trump’s election, and they want President Obama to “step up” and do something about it. But—ask Democrats across the spectrum—what about the fact that Donald Trump was the Birther-in-Chief long before he became the popular vote losing, puppet of Putin, president-elect? Not so, says Reince Priebus:
Priebus said Sunday that questions about Obama’s birth have “been resolved for at least two years in Donald Trump’s mind” ...
“This Week” host George Stephanopoulos corrected Priebus, noting that Trump continued to raise questions about Obama’s eligibility to serve well into his own presidential campaign.
“But look, George, that’s not the point,” he replied. “The point is not where Barack Obama was born. The point is is that we’ve got congressmen on the Democratic side of the aisle that are questioning the legitimacy of President-elect Trump, who won in an electoral landslide. That’s the issue. That’s where the outrage should be, not old news ...”
So, Priebus blatantly lies about Trump’s eight years of birther crap, Stephanopoulos corrects him, Priebus says “that’s not the point.” Uh, yes, it is the point. For eight years, Donald Trump publicly questioned the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s presidency based on a racist-fueled lie. And now he’s about to take the oath of office thanks to—among other things—interference by the Russian government, possibly while collaborating with the Trump campaign during the course of the presidential election.
That’s where the outrage should be.
And for the record, Trump’s racism isn’t “old news,” as we saw on Saturday when Trump, during the course of his vile attack on John Lewis, assumed that Lewis represented a “falling apart,” “crime infested” slum, simply because he is black. Speaking of outrage ...
And one last thing, Reince, Trump did not win in an “electoral landslide.” In U.S. history, it ranks 46 out of 58. Jackass.