April 26, 2011: Conservative Columnist: Trump Using ‘Racial Smears’ to Attack Obama

Conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan excoriates billionaire television host, rumored presidential candidate, and “birther” enthusiast Donald Trump for attacking President Obama’s college career (see April 26, 2011). Sullivan writes: “Like a junkie huffing his own glue, Donald Trump throws in the affirmative action card to pump up the GOP base even more. This one really stretches credulity: the man who edited the Harvard Law Review was not qualified to get into Columbia or Harvard. And then a totally fabricated notion that the president’s long-form birth certificate is missing” (see February 10, 2011). Sullivan calls Trump’s allegations “racist smears, based on fear of the cultural ‘other.’” Sullivan concludes: “I don’t think Trump will last very long. I do think he makes other shameless candidates more acceptable.” [Daily Beast, 4/26/2011]