In his big interview with CNN Tuesday, Donald Trump told Wolf Blitzer the Obama campaign is using “reverse psychology” when it comes to the birther conspiracy Trump continues to believe in. In an interview with the Huffington Post’s Jon Ward just before he called into CNN, Trump explained what he means by that:
[Trump] talked for almost 10 minutes about why the Obama campaign — which released a web video and a statement condemning Romney for not disavowing Trump’s comments — actually wants the birther issue to go away.
“It’s hitting very close to home and they’re very nervous about it,” Trump said. “They’re very afraid of the issue. They don’t like the issue. And you know what? You’d say the same thing if you were in their position.”
He said the Obama campaign was trying to use “reverse psychology.”
“When something that they don’t like gets put in papers the best thing you can do is say, ‘Oh we love it, we love it.’ What they’re doing is reverse psychology and I don’t blame them one bit. They hate this subject. They hate it more than anybody has hated any subject, and the best they can do is to just say, ‘Oh we’re so happy it was brought up,'” Trump said. “And people like you, who I assume they consider are suckers, write exactly what they say. And I don’t know if you’re a sucker or not. It depends on whether or not you write it.”
“They don’t love it at all. They hate it. And let me tell you, I have plenty of friends in there and they will tell you, they will tell me, they do not like this subject one bit. This is not a good subject for them,” he said.
Trump also told Ward the Romney camp hasn’t told him to stop talking about the birther stuff. The Romney camp did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
