As much as I hate defending Trump, the Howard Stern comment doesn't seem like that big of a deal. Was it a joke? Maybe, but I really think it was Trump's exaggeration of Melania's ability to rebound naturally from childbirth. Like, he wasn't demanding she get fit in a week, but rather that her body would do it on its own because "she’s got the kind of a body and make-up where, about one day after the baby, it’s going to be the same as it was before.” Though I don't have the full context so there could be more to it.
Unfortunately, yes, Trump, just like Arpaio, still believes Obama's birth certificate is fake. They believe this because of a single fraud at WND named Jerome Corsi. Corsi is the guy that provided a long-form birth certificate of a woman, similar to Obama's, to Arpaio. Armpit Arpaio claimed that he would use that birth certificate not to prove Obama's was fake, but to prove Obama's long-form BC was real. Yeah right. Armpit, probably at the direction of Corsi, gathered a bunch of forensic randoms who pointed out multiple potential points of fraud in Obama's long-form BC, but only when it was compared to the other BC provided by Corsi. Armpit then takes it to a judge, or maybe the FBI, I forget. They ask Armpit where that other birth certificate come from. Armpit says it came from Corsi. Then they ask "where did he get it from?" Armpit comes back with "that's a really good question," and the whole thing ended right there.
Later on, Armpit is indicted, gets sentenced, and then eventually gets pardoned by Trump. Armpit then goes on television saying he still believes Obama's BC is fake. Yet he still has no idea where that other BC came from that supposedly proves Obama's is fake. Nobody seems to know, including Corsi. It arrived in his mailbox and he ran with it, and he's still making a living off of it at WND. Now it's just fodder for conspiracy dims like Trump who disregard facts so they can get their fix and call themselves smart.
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7 years ago
"As much as I hate defending Trump, the Howard Stern comment doesn't seem like that big of a deal. Was it a joke? Maybe, but I really think it was Trump's exaggeration of Melania's ability to rebound naturally from childbirth. Like, he wasn't demanding she get fit in a week, but rather that her body would do it on its own because "she’s got the kind of a body and make-up where, about one day after the baby, it’s going to be the same as it was before.” Though I don't have the full context so there could be more to it. "
Was it a joke? Could be - but he's no comedian. He should keep these 'jokes' in private.
No man should ever talk about their wives like that on national radio or in public. Very demeaning to his wife to discuss her this way on Stern's show - no matter the intent.
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