Day 314: Trump Just Can’t Let Birtherism or Vote Totals Go

Donald Trump is still obsessed with Barack Obama’s birth certificate and with popular vote counts that showed a nearly three million vote loss to Hillary Clinton last year.

According to The New York Times, Trump constantly harps on both to advisers and elected officials.

In recent months, they say, Mr. Trump has used closed-door conversations to question the authenticity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. He has also repeatedly claimed that he lost the popular vote last year because of widespread voter fraud, according to advisers and lawmakers.

“One senator who listened as the president revived his doubts about Mr. Obama’s birth certificate chuckled on Tuesday as recalled the conversation. The president, he said, has had a hard time letting go of his claim that Mr. Obama was not born in the United States. The senator asked not to be named to discuss private conversations.

There are an infinite number of problems that Trump could be dealing with to, in some way, help the United States. Instead — no doubt with race playing a factor — Trump is still consumed with thoughts about Obama’s birth certificate and — no doubt with insecurity playing a factor — about popular vote totals from an election more than a year ago.

Both issues are over and put to bed, but Trump can’t seem to follow them there.

314 days in, 1148 to go

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