PolitiFact Georgia editor Jim Tharpe speaks with Denis O’Hayer on “Morning Edition”
On Sept. 16, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump admitted President Barack Obama was born in the United States. In the process, Trump – who had advanced the “birther” rumor for years – argued that the first person to question the president’s origins was Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, during her 2008 primary campaign against then-Sen. Obama.
Some other Republican leaders, including national party chairman Reince Priebus, also blamed Clinton, or her 2008 campaign, for starting the rumor. On “Morning Edition,” Denis O’Hayer sorted through several claims about Clinton with Jim Tharpe, the editor of PolitiFact Georgia, which appears in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and on myajc.com.
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