Maybe the Kenyan-Born Obama Didn't Even Go to Harvard
Trump's ex-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is back at it again.
The Birthers are back! The day after his "Don't touch me!" fit live on CNN, former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was back on air demanding President Obama's long-form college transcript, or something.
Don Lemon convened a panel to discuss the president's shellacking of Trump on national TVearlier in the day, and Lewandowski—whom, as of mid-July, the Trump campaign was still paying—got himself all worked up in his old boss's defense. First, he didn't take kindly to the venue where the beatdown took place. The East Room is a place for diplomacy and statesmanship, and that's all President Trump will ever use it for, OK?
Then co-panelist Angela Ree made the mistake of bringing up Trump's birtherism, and his repeated calls for the president to release his college transcripts. (The insinuation, Ree pointed out, was that Obama was an affirmative action candidate and/or did not deserve to go to Harvard. Later, the panel adds the small detail that he was also editor of the Harvard Law Review. He got lucky, I guess.) That's when things flew straight off the rails.
"Did he ever release his transcripts?" Lewandowski asked, and off they went. Ree pointed out Trump has never released his transcripts—his grades are tremendous, the professors loved him—and that he is the first presidential candidate in 43 years to refuse to release his tax returns. Lewandowski kept repeating that she brought up the transcripts (the "she started it" argument, kind of like Trump's run-in with Anderson Cooper), and that Obama didn't release them or "his admission to Harvard University." Don Lemon asked him how the transcripts are "germane" to the discussion (that's TV host for, "What the hell are you talking about?") and that was the only invitation Lewandowski needed.
"The question was, did he get in as a U.S. citizen, or was he brought into Harvard University as a citizen who wasn't from this country?"
After a back-and-forth, another panelist, Bakari Sellers, broke it down:
"To question the qualifications, and to say that somehow he was some foreign enrollee, or because he was an African-American [he] did not belong, is I think blatantly disrespectful."
"Disrespectful" would seem to be putting it lightly. Good to see the Trump Train has pulled into a familiar station.
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