During a town hall meeting, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump was provided with a spectacular opportunity to dispel, once and for all, the notion that he’s a birther — and he turned it down.
“We have a problem in this country,” a questioner said, “it’s called Muslims. We know our current president is one. You know he’s not even an American. We have training camps growing where they want to kill us.”
Trump — who spent much of much of Wednesday night’s debate talking over and interrupting other potential nominees — didn’t even attempt to challenge this interrogator, who did eventually get around to his question: “When can we get rid of them?”
Instead of saying that “they” are American citizens, and as such it would be un-American to “get rid of them,” Trump replied...