Donald Trump Keeps Playing His Greatest Hits
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He’s like an aging pop metal band on the county fair/second-tier regional casino circuit playing 6 songs between Slaughter and Great White, but with racism and the real possibility of attaining the most powerful office in the world to abuse again:
Donald Trump, the chief propagator of false “birther” claims first against then-President Barack Obama and later against Sen. Ted Cruz, has a new target: Nikki Haley.
As Haley surges in New Hampshire polling, Trump posted an article on his Truth Social account from a right-wing outlet that claimed Haley, his GOP rival, is ineligible to be president because her parents were not U.S. citizens when she was born.
Haley was born in South Carolina and has lived in the U.S. her entire life. Her parents were immigrants, who became citizens after her birth in 1972.
“The birther claims against Nikki Haley are totally baseless as a legal and constitutional matter,” Harvard Law School professor emeritus Laurence Tribe wrote in an email. “I can’t imagine what Trump hopes to gain by those claims unless it’s to play the race card against the former governor and UN ambassador as a woman of color — and to draw on the wellsprings of anti-immigrant prejudice by reminding everyone that Haley’s parents weren’t citizens when she was born in the USA.”
You can’t deny he knows what his audience wants to hear.
This is useful context to examine the latest We’re Not Saying Never Trump But National Review editorial from the National Review. It concedes Trump’s responsibility (albeit with some soft-pedalling) for 1/6 and the threat it posed to the constitutional order. And yet when the feeble competition they’re touting inevitably gets steamrolled, they’ll quickly return to supporting him, because another round of upper-class tax cuts and the possibility of taking health insurance from 30 million people is just too important. Von Hindenburg is the model.
…as Paul observes in comments, it was making the same racist birtherist argument about Kamala Harris that brought John Eastman into Trump’s orbit. The great neoconfederate circle jerk of life, although at least in Eastman’s case it will end in disbarment.