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Then he screeched “BENGHAZI!”:

Trump’s half life has exceeded my popcorn supply.

My favorite part of the insane guy’s question was the young vet with the facial hair in the far right middle of the screen who shook his head repeatedly in obvious disagreement with the loony stuff the questioner was saying. Then when the guy said “When are we going to get rid of these people” you could read the vet’s lips saying “Wow”!

The Repubs, Lindsey included, didn’t have a problem with Drumpf’s birtherism during the last election. Difficult to put the Genie back into the bottle, isn’t it Lindz?

As with Mrs. Bush, he will refuse to apologize because he did nothing wrong. Just because his followers in his presence do something (hate speech, beat up foreigners, etc.) it is not Trump’s fault.

When a woman attending one of McCain's town hall meetings called Obama an "Arab," the then-Republican presidential nominee corrected her and called him a "decent family man."

Credit where credit is due to McCain for pushing back, but responding to “He’s an Arab” with “No, he’s a decent family man” is at best a non sequitur.

This from the guy who has made his career out of vilifying Islam.

“Mr. Trump in many ways is responsible for this, by creating this idea
that maybe Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii,” he said. “Saying that
most illegal immigrants are rapists and drug dealers. He’s playing into
this hateful narrative. It’s now time for him to set it right.”

Lindsey, Trump won’t apologize for being a birther because it brings him publicity.

Lindsay thinks Trump should apologize but he has no problem promising to bomb the hell out of the Middle East and killing as many ‘bad’ Muslims as he can.

Egg-zzacktly. You nailed it. Trump can’t disavow something that secretly fuels his run. Not before he’s won a single primary, anyway.

Usually these GOPers like Gingrich said things that sounded like they agreed with the Birthers, e.g. Orly Taitz without specifically saying so. Gingrich said Obama understood “Kenyan anti-colonialism.” However, whatever Graham said in 2012, this is what he said in 2009:

“Here is what the Republican party needs to do: we have to say that’s crazy. So I’m here to tell you that those who think the president was born somewhere other than Hawaii you’re crazy … let’s knock this crap off and talk about the real differences we have.”

– Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, October 1, 2009[164]

Nice he said that a year after the election.

Hope you don’t mind me taking the liberty to fix your comment.

We’ll all hold our breath on that one. BTW, didn’t hear you giving Trump any grief for agreeing that the President isn’t a citizen, so you STILL flunk.

I noticed that too. I was surprised that none of the pundits mentioned it.

And also the establishment-looking guy sitting next to him.
Seemed he was just looking at the ‘insane guy’ (probably accurate) with his mouth hanging open.
I choose to believe he was thinking “WTF have I stumbled into?”

“He’s playing into this hateful narrative. It’s now time for him to set it right.”

The GOP’s “hateful narrative” has played (at least) since Reagan launched his general campaign with a “states rights” speech on the spot where the KKK murdered Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.

Sen. Graham conveniently overlooked the “time…to set it right” for 35 years.

Sorry, but he has an obligation to correct the record and push back on this nonsense.

“He’s”??? Oh come now, Senator, your antecedents are showing…

In a perverse way, why should he?

Most of the GOP base believe it, and the GOP has blithely turned a blind eye to it since the 2007 election campaign got underway.

Why stop now?

The GOP base will still believe it regardless. Facts and reality have no intersection with the “conservative” and GOP electorate.

@BradBennett Yes. I saw the guy next to him looked aghast too. I thought maybe the older guy was the vet and the younger facial-haired guy his son.