Did Clinton start the birther controversy? No. Did she abet it? Of course
We have no evidence that Hillary Clinton supported using birtherism to attack Obama in 2008. There is reason to believe that Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal did, and of course a volunteer county coordinator in Iowa is known to have spread rumors that Obama was a Muslim – but we have no way of tying this to any kind of formal or deliberate effort from the…
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