Rep. Byron Donalds’ team said a CNN report on the old posts was “weak” but “typical” of the network.
’s short list of potential vice president candidates, used to harshly criticize the former president online, railing against him for his trade policies and birtherism comments about, which also uncovered decade-old interviews in which Donalds, then a failed Tea Party candidate for Congress, regularly spoke against Trump and defended Sen. Mitt Romney .
In that same post, Donalds addressed Trump’s loud-but-unfounded claims that Obama’s birth certificate was fake. Donalds suggested that Americans had fallen into that conspiracy much like they did to unfounded theories about the Sept. 11 attacks. A spokesperson for Donalds defended the posts in a statement to CNN, calling the network “weak” for running a story on “decade-old posts.”
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