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Rewriting history has always been one of Rudy Giuliani’s great skills. Last month, the former New York mayor said there were no terrorist attacks on American soil before President Obama and Hillary Clinton took power in 2009.
Of course, he forgot the most deadly attack in U.S. history that took place on Sept. 11, 2001, in the city he was in charge of.
In his latest historical revision, Giuliani now says that birtherism – the Trump-championed conspiracy theory that Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States – is something Donald Trump actually denounced years ago.
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Giuliani: Trump believes now Obama was born in the U.S. https://t.co/r29dx5FjxL
— Hardball (@hardball) September 9, 2016
After Matthews told Giuliani that top Trump surrogates, including VP nominee Mike Pence and former presidential candidate Ben Carson, have recently conceded that President Obama is a legitimate American, Giuliani responded by saying Trump already did that “three, four, five years ago.”
As the MSNBC host pointed out, though, Trump himself has never said that he believes, unequivocally, that Obama was born in the United States.
“He did not do that yet,” Matthews said. “I am waiting for him to do it.”
Giuliani responded, “Donald Trump believes now that he was born in the United States.”
As recently as this week, though, the Republican nominee still refused to admit that Obama was born here, instead saying, “I don’t talk about it.”
For years, Donald Trump has consistently refused to admit that Barack Obama was born in the United States. Not long ago, Trump even claimed he had damning evidence that proved the current president wasn’t truly born in Hawaii.
It’s part of the reason why Trump won the support of the extremist GOP base and likely why he still hasn’t officially denounced the birther conspiracy.
Giuliani can paper over history all he wants, but it means nothing until the candidate himself comes out and admits that he has been wrong all along.
Don’t hold your breath.
Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.
