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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Donald Trump admitted that President Obama was born in the United States last week, but the birther movement lives on, TPM’s Caitlin MacNeal reported. On Tuesday, notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, refused to let his birtherism go and insisted that Obama’s birth certificate was “forged.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “Even the more disciplined, sharper campaign Bannon ushered in must still contend with, and at the end of the day, fail to overcome Trump’s most profound psychological and moral defects. Go back and watch the video of Trump ‘renouncing’ birtherism. It’s teeth-gritted and angry, something he was clearly forced to do and could only bear to do by packaging it with more self-assertive nonsense. ‘Hillary wanted to be a birther but she failed. Only I could succeed.’ And now five days on, he’s back to it, back to being a birther, or perhaps a Hidden Birther, whose occultation will end only once he accedes to the presidency.”
Say What?!
“Maybe people like that, people that choke, people that do that, maybe they can’t be doing what they’re doing.”
– Trump questioned the actions of the white officer who shot an unarmed black man in Tulsa, Oklahoma, sharp contrast to his reactions to previous police shootings of black men.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “I think younger progressives, especially college-educated ones, that aren’t sold on Clinton yet are taking a longer view and figure that since they’re in their 20s or 30s, that they have a long time to get their candidate in and they can just suck it up for 4 years and try again. The system they’ll get with Trump is bad, but the system they have now is no great shakes for them either. Pragmatism, rather than apathy. And yes, I think that’s a very short sighted and poor idea because Trump is not a normal Republican candidate and he has the strong potential to permanently deform our politics and system of government.”
Related: Senate Democrats are brushing off any suggestion that Clinton is struggling – or that they’re nervous about her chances.
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