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Trump Predicts Birther Issue A ‘Positive’ For Perry (VIDEO)

Trump Predicts Birther Issue A ‘Positive’ For Perry (VIDEO)

It has been said that insanity is the repetition of an action with the expectation of a different result…

In an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan, businessman and reality show host Donald Trump opined that the “birther” issue would be a “positive” for GOP candidate Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) before qualifying that it might not be “good for him in the general election.”

The birther argument first popularized by Trump as he flirted with a presidential bid in the spring has resurfaced with a vengeance. Speaking to Parade magazine, Perry said that he didn’t have a “definitive answer” as to whether Obama was born in the United States.

Perry has been actively courting Trump, hoping to score his endorsement to shore up his faltering campaign.

Trump appears to have recovered from his public shaming at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, telling Morgan that Obama “might have been” born in the country.

“My gut tells me a couple of things. Number 1, you know it took a long time to produce this certificate and when it came out, as you know, you check out the internet, many people say it is not real. Okay? It’s a forgery,” Trump said. “And the other thing is, nobody has been able to see the day of his birth, they had twins born, they had the other one born. Nobody has been able to find any records that he was born in that hospital.”

Check out the video below.


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