Trump proud to be a birther

Donald Trump said Wednesday that he's proud to be part of the so-called birther movement, which he says is comprised of "great American people.”


"I don't feel heat; I think he's got heat," Trump said of President Barack Obama on the Laura Ingraham show . "Look, he cannot give a birth certificate. You can, I can, I got one yesterday, it took me a day, 24 hours, I got one.

"A lot of the so called birthers, these are great people, these are really great American people,” he added. “These are hard working, unbelievable, salt of the earth people."

Trump’s latest comments came as he’s burned up the cable airwaves with one provocative comment after another in rehashing the debunked theories that Obama was not born in America. Trump himself had his own birth certificate fiasco this week, producing a document he claimed was a birth certificate — only to have POLITICO report it wasn’t before he later produced the real one.

"I'm proud to be, I mean I'm very proud of it,” Trump said of his newfound role as a movement spokesman. “I don't like the term [birther]; I think it is a demeaning term to the people that believe that he should have a birth certificate, that some people believe he was not born in this country. And when people ask me that question I just can't be sure because nobody knows."

Trump is set to appear on The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News tonight where, according to a partial transcript put out by Political Wire, he keeps up his birther mantra.

"I have a birth certificate." he tells O'Reilly. "People have birth certificates. He doesn't have a birth certificate. He may have one but there is something on that birth certificate — maybe religion, maybe it says he's a Muslim, I don't know. Maybe he doesn't want that. Or, he may not have one."

Later he tries a new angle on whether Obama was born in the United States: "I grew up with Wall Street geniuses. What they do in terms of fraud, and how they change documents — and I'll tell you something, if you notice, those dates were three days later. And here's what I ask people — who puts announcements? Two poor people, a man and a woman with no money, they have a baby. There's announcements in the newspaper? Nelson Rockefeller doesn't put announcements in. I've never seen one."