Chris Hayes Spars With Omarosa Over Whether Birtherism Is ‘Real Issue’ (VIDEO)

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MSNBC host Chris Hayes struggled to have a productive interview with Donald Trump surrogate Omarosa Manigault on Monday evening, after the former “The Apprentice” star insisted she wanted to discuss “real issues” while falsely attributing the birther movement to Hillary Clinton.

Hayes kicked off the conversation with a question about Trump’s recent strained, 30-second-long statement acknowledging that President Barack Obama was born in the United States, given that birtherism was likely to come up in the first presidential debate later in the night.

Manigault immediately went on the defense, saying Trump put the issue “to bed” and now wants to focus on issues facing Americans, including the economy and education.

“But he spent five years talking about the president not being an American,” Hayes pressed. “He tweeted that he thought that it was possible that there had been a plane crash intentionally designed to kill a state official in Hawaii to cover up the documentation. Those are very serious charges.”

“But don’t you think it’s a really big move for Donald Trump to say he now acknowledges that the president has been born here?” Omarosa replied. “I think it’s important to move on from that and focus on issues that Americans are most interested in.”

This exchange set the dynamic for the rest of the four-minute conversation, which derailed further after Maigault accused Hayes and other journalists of “floating” these distracting “conspiracy theories” around.

Haye’s team cut the interview shortly after.

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  1. “I think it’s important to move on from that and focus on issues that Americans are most interested in.”

    I’mverysure I’m not interested in what Trumpski is selling.

  2. And Hayes wasted good airwaves on AwfulRosa’ debating ‘birtherism’ … because??? Just accept that she, like all the lying Trump screeching banshees, is a money grubbing, soulless blight and move on.

    BTW: Great evaluation of the Trumpanzee’ Army by the Liberal Redneck this week:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk7dr1GbEs4
  3. “Please don’t bring up the fact that we kept this going for years, we want people to forget about it now that Trump is trying to be serious.”

    Man, say what you want about Romney, but he never went this far into Etch-A-Sketch land.

  4. I saw this . She is a raving lunatic.

  5. Omarosa fails to realize that her candidate, Donald Trump’s followers still believe the President wasn’t born in the US! I bet if a poll was taken on this question among his supporters, it would result in about 97% of them agree with Trumps 5 yr lying claim!

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