None of this even begins to get into whether Republicans can countenance Trump's insinuation that Obama somehow tacitly sides with terrorists who are trying to kill Americans. And here, too, Republicans will no longer be able to dismiss this as a temporary fancy on Trump's part, as something that can be addressed by confining Trump to a more (dare we say it) politically correct script. That's because a Trump spokeswoman has now confirmed that this claim is becoming an official argument of the campaign.