hi, everyone, it s 4:00 in new york, and around the country growing concern over what s beginning to look like a repeat of the disinformation campaign that helped elect donald trump in 2016. concern that the same kinds of dishonest, divisive and race-baiting attacks waged on social media against hillary clinton in the last election are now tafrrgeting 2020 democrats. and like last time they re being amplified by donald trump s allies. brought to the forefront recently when the president s son retweeted shades of birtherism that his father brought up. here s a reminder what donald trump jr. tweeted and retweeted on backlash.
time in donald trump s mind, right, when he entered the political arena in 2011, he used birtherism and one of the things that came out of that, which i remember very well because i was on the obama campaign in 2011 is obama released his long firm birth certificate, which was a win. which was a win to donald trump. i remember when it happened, i think there was a feeling like this had to happen. we were going into re-election. and that was a major, major win and so he took that and he went into 2015 and it all, you know, we know what happened after that. in his mind, i think it s like okay, birtherism 2.o now kamala harris is clearly what we saw the performance from last week, she s rising and they re thinking it will work again. and, you know, there s a couple of things too. you re talking about how the campaign needs to step up and they should not rely on the party. i think that s really true. the other part of this that s concerning is donald trump has raised more than $100 million
we know trump is an easy mark. it s what you say it is, i love it. yes, he s an easy mark. whatever so he thinks his father loves him more. to what you said quick, joy, listening to clip on birtherism and everything else that the president says, america, here is your tell, whenever the president said, i heard shut it down, stop it, call it a lie and move on because the next sentence, word, phrase out of his mouth will be a lie. i want to know who are all of these people talking to him, telling him this information he s spewing out? i hear there were 500,000 people, not 50,000. you re correcting or at that moment he s correcting putin when putin said 25 million people that presumably the president of the country should know how many people died in world war ii and trump comes back, i hear it was 50 million. stop it. press, don t write that story. it is a lie.
what can candidates do? if there are not any, what can operatives do? right. it s not simply oppo research anymore. something else can happen in the context of our election system and in the context of the birtherism and what happened to senator harris, there are folks out there, the american dissendants of slaves who are making hay in all sorts of places across the country and have a presence on the web. they re not bots. they re not russian folk. they re actually trying to have an impact on the way in which we talk about race in this country. unless we understand and be able to differentiate these various forces, we are going to lump them all into the same thing and not understand the nature of the dangers that we face in our electoral system. i guess the toxic brew that seems to be getting mixed up in the kitchen already is trump s racism, the complete 578 biv
that equation for voters. also ahead the man who sold america. one of our friends here calls it the greatest con job in this nation s history. what does donald trump do for his encore? gearing up for one of the political showdowns of the year, robert mueller s public testimony on capitol hill, all of those stories coming up. torip as your life grows, so do your needs. and with bank of america and merrill, the benefits you get can grow, too.