Donald Trump Helped Spread Birtherism. Now He Can't Stop It.

Donald Trump, one of the loudest proponents of the conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the U.S., publicly abandoned the idea last week. “President Obama was born in the United States, period,” he said.At the time he was giving that speech, however, most Republicans still espoused the belief that Obama wasn’t American-born.
If anyone could help convince members of the GOP to stop questioning the president’s birthplace, you might expect it to