Sulkdodds
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Amazed there isn't a thread on this. Post your own relevant links and I will add them to the OP.
The Grauniad's live (??) coverage.
Analysis piece.
Trump unable to supply his own documents
BREAKING NEWS:
No sooner than the release was made did Trump and the vast right-wing conspiracy industry turn their attention to Obama's academic record.
Now they want him to release his transcripts.
Trump's new demands
Compelling evidence
See also this Comment Is Free piece.
The Grauniad's live (??) coverage.
Analysis piece.
Trump unable to supply his own documents
BREAKING NEWS:
No sooner than the release was made did Trump and the vast right-wing conspiracy industry turn their attention to Obama's academic record.
Now they want him to release his transcripts.
Trump's new demands
Compelling evidence
See also this Comment Is Free piece.
The fact is that the Obama administration has played the recent spasm of birther attention remarkably well. They have let Trump rise up on a balloon of inflated birther nonsense – getting near the top of Republican polls for the 2012 nomination – and then promptly popped it underneath him. Look at the timing. This was meant to be a moment all about Trump appearing in New Hampshire, the vital first state to hold a primary in the nomination process. It was a moment where Trump the outsider upstart was meant to begin to look a little serious.
Instead, the White House timed the release so that Trump would be right in the media's glare when the birther bubble burst. Not surprisingly, he looked like an idiot. At a news conference, he blustered about his proud achievement in forcing the release of the birth certificate, then attempted to cast a little doubt on it and finally made up a CNN poll that he claimed showed him neck-and-neck with Obama in the race (CNN promptly reported no such poll exists).