8/13/20: We know Vice President Pence and his boss are consistently baffled by basic math. Yesterday, Mr. Pence annulled (see: 8/12/20) the rules of addition and subtraction while bragging about all the jobs Team Trump has created.
Meanwhile, his boss was telling anyone who would listen that the country was doing great, and the coronavirus was almost disappearing.
Geography also tends to confuse the president. Which means, he was out with his latest “birther” conspiracy. Someone in the know, Trump explained during a press conference, was saying that Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris, was not eligible to run for that high office.
De ja vu!
She wasn’t an American citizen!
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“Under the Constitution and Supreme Court precedent, she is unequivocally an American citizen.”
Sen. Lindsey
Graham
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A reporter asked Trump about the story, put forward in an op-ed piece in Newsweek. The president replied:
So I just heard that, I heard it
today, that she doesn’t meet the requirements....I have no idea if that’s
right, I would have assumed the Democrats would have checked that out before
she gets chosen to run for vice president. But that’s very serious, they’re
saying that she wasn’t qualified because she wasn’t born in this country
[emphasis added].
Got it? “Very serious.”
Even though, “I have no idea if that’s right.”
It was easy enough to check the story – and you might think
some of his aides would – but they were busy trying to spread the story, themselves.
Harris was born in…California …in 1964.
Trump’s latest birther ploy was too stupid even for stalwart sycophants to swallow. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a prolific kisser of presidential booty, was clear. There “is no issue as to whether or not she is an American citizen. She was born in the United States in 1964 to parents who were legally present. Under the Constitution and Supreme Court precedent, she is unequivocally an American citizen.”
Trump’s defenders will say it’s a mere coincidence that the two people he said weren’t American enough to serve in our highest offices (first, Obama, now Harris) just happened to have dark skin.
White House aide and pale white guy, Jared Kushner (qualified to comment on all matters related to government, by virtue of marriage to Trump daughter Ivanka), said, no, no, no! Trump was not being racist! The president “just said that he had no idea whether that’s right or wrong,” Kushner told a reporter. “I don’t see that as promoting it. But look, at the end of the day, that’s something that’s out there. ... I personally have no reason to believe she’s not.”
Yes. We see. It’s
“out there.” No idea whether that’s right or not. Who knows! Personally, Jared
has “no reason to believe she’s not” a citizen. But maybe we had better get a
look at her birth certificate.
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FINALLY, since we’re talking about Trump and his latest birther tricks, we should highlight the work of one reporter.
During a White House press conference Thursday, S.V. Dáte, a reporter for HuffPost, put a question to the president.
As might be expected, Donald J. Trump had no good answer:
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MEANWHILE, Dr. Robert Redfield warns that unless Americans take greater precautions, we may be in for the “worst fall” ever, with coronavirus rampant.
On August 13, another 1,120 Americans die from the disease.
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