Trump, the bombastic businessman, had gone one step further by insinuating that in fact Obama wasn’t American but instead a Kenyan-born Muslim who had also fudged his transcripts from Columbia and Harvard. Don and Derek didn’t much care about the legitimacy of Obama’s birth certificate, but they were buoyed by the fact that by mimicking white nationalist rhetoric, Trump had amassed a massive following on the far right. He was polling near the front of the 2012 Republican presidential field, even though he repeatedly said he would likely only run as an independent and that he probably wouldn’t
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