radical conspiracy theorist: Donald Trump, the New York business mogul, who was making a spectacle out of his search for President Obama’s long-form birth certificate. “I’m starting to wonder myself whether or not he was born in this country,” Trump told Fox News, and in a series of news-making interviews he parroted white nationalist talking points by insinuating that Obama was inherently “un-American.” Trump’s charade made him a hero in the Tea Party movement and earned him 7 percent of the American news cycle that April of 2011, according to the Pew Research Center. “A shameless opportunist
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