In bizarre ‘birther’ twist, claims Trump is Pakistani
Report says president-elect was born as Dawood Ibrahim Khan in Waziristan before being adopted by American family
November 13, 2016, 9:20 am 3
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screenshot from a report on Pakistani TV's Neo News claiming that
Donald Trump was born in Pakistan as Dawood Ibrahim Khan. (Screen
capture: YouTube)
After
years leading the false charge that President Barack Obama was born
outside of the United States, President-elect Donald Trump is facing his
own minor “birtherism” moment, with a Pakistani television network
claiming the New Yorker was born in Pakistan.
“Believe it or not, presidential candidate Donald Trump was born in Pakistan and not in America,” the Urdu-language Neo News reported last month in a video clip that went viral after Trump’s election victory on November 8.
The report, not unlike the claims once made against Obama, appears to have originated with social media posts positing unsourced theories about Trump’s birth and previously unknown life in the Islamic Republic.
According to Neo News, Trump was born as Dawood Ibrahim Khan in the now-Taliban-controlled Waziristan region of the country in 1954. After his parents were killed in a car accident, a British Indian Army captain took little Dawood to London, where the Trump family later adopted him and brought him to America, the report claimed.
Citing numerous tweets to back up the story, Neo News even provided a photo of the alleged young Trump, wearing what appears to be traditional Pakistani boys’ garb.
If Trump were born in Pakistan he would be ineligible to serve as US president.
Following Tuesday’s election, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif congratulated Trump on his “historic” victory. The Pakistani leader said that Trump’s election “is indeed the triumph of the American people and their enduring faith in the ideals of democracy, freedom, human rights and free enterprise.”
The president-elect was, for many years, the most prominent proponent of the “birther” movement, which claimed that Obama was born outside the US and was thus ineligible to be president — despite the fact that he was born in Hawaii. Trump’s comments were seen by many as an attempt to delegitimize the nation’s first black president.
In September Trump finally acknowledged for the first time that Obama was born in the United States. “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period,” he told a nationally televised press conference in Washington, DC.
Shortly before Trump’s announcement, Obama said
that he believed most people know he was born in the United States, and
that he hoped the election campaign would focus on “more serious
issues.”
Responding to a reporter’s question about Trump’s recent refusal to say that the president was born in the United States, Obama said he was “pretty confident about where I was born, I think most people were, as well.”
“Believe it or not, presidential candidate Donald Trump was born in Pakistan and not in America,” the Urdu-language Neo News reported last month in a video clip that went viral after Trump’s election victory on November 8.
The report, not unlike the claims once made against Obama, appears to have originated with social media posts positing unsourced theories about Trump’s birth and previously unknown life in the Islamic Republic.
According to Neo News, Trump was born as Dawood Ibrahim Khan in the now-Taliban-controlled Waziristan region of the country in 1954. After his parents were killed in a car accident, a British Indian Army captain took little Dawood to London, where the Trump family later adopted him and brought him to America, the report claimed.
Citing numerous tweets to back up the story, Neo News even provided a photo of the alleged young Trump, wearing what appears to be traditional Pakistani boys’ garb.
If Trump were born in Pakistan he would be ineligible to serve as US president.
Following Tuesday’s election, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif congratulated Trump on his “historic” victory. The Pakistani leader said that Trump’s election “is indeed the triumph of the American people and their enduring faith in the ideals of democracy, freedom, human rights and free enterprise.”
The president-elect was, for many years, the most prominent proponent of the “birther” movement, which claimed that Obama was born outside the US and was thus ineligible to be president — despite the fact that he was born in Hawaii. Trump’s comments were seen by many as an attempt to delegitimize the nation’s first black president.
In September Trump finally acknowledged for the first time that Obama was born in the United States. “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period,” he told a nationally televised press conference in Washington, DC.
US
President Barack Obama shakes hands as he meets with Republican
President-elect Donald Trump (L) on transition planning in the Oval
Office at the White House on November 10, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Jim
Watson/AFP)
Responding to a reporter’s question about Trump’s recent refusal to say that the president was born in the United States, Obama said he was “pretty confident about where I was born, I think most people were, as well.”
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