Donald Trump made his name in Republican Party politics as a “birther,” a true believer in — and an evangelist for — the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/09/politics/donald-trump-birther/index.html" target=_blank>racist conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was a foreign-born</a>, illegitimate president. Having stoked a wave of white grievance and resentment, Trump rode it, first to influence — let’s not forget that Mitt Romney came to receive Trump’s endorsement in person during the 2012 presidential race — and then to the summit of power as president himself.
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