Just before his first debate with Hillary Clinton, Trump’s campaign decided it was time for him to revoke birtherism at long last. Trump wasn’t so willing to let it go.
’s life whom you’ve probably never heard of is “Gabe.” The reason a lot of people don’t know who he is, is that there is an unofficial protection racket set up to keep Gabe’s name out of the press. Multiple well-known Trumpworld personalities chided us throughout the course of our reporting on Gabe, even for some of our more mundane questions, such as, “What’s his last name?”
One howler of an example of impromptu inanity came in September 2016, when Donald Trump and his team had announced that he was—ostensibly—prepared to put all that ugly birther racism in the rearview mirror. Election Day was fast approaching, and it was time to at least do the pantomime of “presidential.”Trump had built his political career and conservative street cred, circa 2011, on his reckless questioning of Obama’s place of birth.
Hicks—a top confidante and a press and comms hotshot whom Trump had for years treated as a surrogate daughter and whom he affectionately called Hopey and Hopester—was the brave one. Hopey/Hopester went first. After each aide said their piece, the call was interrupted by yet another uncomfortable silence. It lasted an interminable three seconds. Then the inevitable eruption came.
In this case, crisis was averted only because it slipped Trump’s elderly mind. And that was that: no batshit written statement. Still, there are times when the reprieve is tragically short-lived. On September 16, 2016, Trump ultimately came around to rejecting birtherism in public—in the most cynical, unconvincing, and utterly meaningless way possible. On that day, he gathered the campaign press at his then new Trump-branded hotel just blocks from the White House he’d soon win.
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