https://youtube.com/watch?v=xshiVoVevmg
Commenting on Donald Trump’s event where he showcased veteran endorsements and affirmed that Barack Obama was born in the U.S., Charles Krauthammer explained how Trump bears responsibility for the birth-certificate conspiracy theories, yet appears to be playing it well:
The only things missing from that event were the Trump Steaks. I thought they would roll them right out of the kitchen and show all those other things. Look, he has a way of attracting the press and making them jump. They jumped, and they came, and they showed what he wanted them to show.
But you know, when he says — or when Mercedes says that this should have ended in 2011 — well the person who didn’t end it in 2011, and who could have, was Donald Trump. All he had to do was to say then what he says now. I don’t think the information has changed; the politics have changed. He wants to get this behind him. But he has spoken about it and expressed his doubts continuously since 2011. So he’s hardly innocent about the continuation of this story. But I think they’re smart, I’m sure this is Kellyanne Conway saying, “You’ve got to say the words, however much it hurts.” You say it once — add a period at the end, that is supposed to mean “I’m done talking about this” — and I think he will stop talking about it, and it will go away.
I think the reason he’s done so well in the polls is because, for about three weeks, he’s refrained from these distractions and eruptions. This was a recurrence of one. He ended it. And now he can continue his rehabilitation.