Republicans are really trying to make this “Hillary Clinton was the original birther” claim stick. Both Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway and Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus pushed this on Face the Nation Sunday morning. According to Priebus:
Well, I think that it was something that got started in the 2008 presidential campaign. Whose fault it was, you know, Hillary Clinton herself, her supporters, her interns, her staffers.
This is … something else.
Conway not only tried to pin birtherism on Clinton, she also continued to make the ludicrous claim that Trump “put the issue to rest when he got President Obama to release his birth certificate years later”—even though Trump continued to push birther conspiracy theories for years.
Meanwhile, David Axelrod, who has not exactly been carrying Hillary Clinton’s water of late, tweeted that “I am no fan of Mark Penn but, so far as I know, he never publicly or privately promoted Birther lie, as Team @realDonaldTrump has charged.”