HILLARY’S “RASPUTIN” ORIGINATED OBAMA "BIRTHER" STORY IN 2008, By Leni Friedman Valenta and Dr. Jiri Valenta

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The mainstream media hounds, salivating for a juicy story on “erratic” Trump defending the birther movement, were handily hoodwinked by Trump yesterday.  He ended their hopes he would raise anew the tale of the president’s foreign birth, a presidential disqualifier. Meanwhile, getting the media to cover 17 military flag officers (and growing) and medal of honor winners stoutly supporting his candidacy, Trump also angled out the line that during the 2008 elections, Hillary was responsible for the so-called, birther movement in the first place.





Jumping all over Trump’s “false allegation,” however, the media forgot about Hillary surrogate Sid Blumenthal, a/k/a “Sid Vicious” or “Rasputin.” Turns out Trump is right after all. In 2008, former Clinton attack dog, Sid Blumenthal, the man who helped to crucify Bill’s paramour, Monica Lewisnky, and served as Hillary’s key adviser on her war in Libya, pitched the story of Obama’s foreign birth to a reporter, James Ascher, with the McClatchys Washington Bureau.  Ascher has has since defended Trump. 

Sid was denied a State Department advisory role because President Obama, remembering his vicious attacks on him, refused to allow it. Against the wishes of the White House, however, Hillary’s “Rasputin,” paid by the Clinton Foundation, became her chief adviser on Libya, and middleman, in introducing arms merchants from Gulf States, Europe and America to Hillary. Meanwhile he profited as a middleman. Bureau

 “We came, we saw and we killed him,” Hillary crowed at a famous press conference. As we learned from her e-mails, it was Sid who proposed she make this bloody comment after the rebels she and Sid  helped to arm murdered Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi. Thereafter, secular Libya descended into an al Qaida-ridden, failed state, and the huge migration to Europe was unleashed. On 9/11 2012 we lost four brave men defending our diplomatic facilities in Benghazi.





Whoever helped us to get Hillary’ e-mail performed a great public service of exposing the truth behind Hillary’s intervention. In her memoir she prevaricated saying she was helping to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe, with untold thousands at risk of being killed. In reality, it was French President Sarkozy’s interest in northern Africa and Hillary’s fundraising for the Clinton Foundation that figured prominently in the decision-making.

Unsurprisingly, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates argued against the invasion since America “did not have core national interests at stake in Libya.” He was right. The war in Libya is on Hillary and her Rasputin, as is the origination of the birther campaign against Obama.





Bottom line:  When Hillary proclaims  “President Obama’s successor cannot and will not be the man who led the racist birther movement,” she’s falling on her own sword and the press should think twice about their biased reporting.  Sadly, the poverty of the Clinton campaign is reflected in the fact that it has to rely on false canards of racism and the supposed unsuitability of Trump’s temperament because they have absolutely nothing else.  

Recall that Trump also raised a birther issue during the 2016 primaries with a white man -- Ted Cruz. Is being Black now a guarantee that any attack launched at Obama originates in racism rather than his flawed policies?





Trump, first to open his golf courses to Blacks and Jews in Palm Beach 25 years ago, is no racist.  Neither is he an “Islamophobe.” His opposition is not to Islam as normally practiced, but to its radical devolution -- Sharia law --an ideology as bloody as Adolf Hitler’s  “Mein Kampf.” As Europe’s experience in the last few years has proved, it’s adherents would place Sharia above U.S. law. You can bet that FDR --like Trump -- would have fully supported keeping its adherents, Islamo-fascists, from our hallowed shores.





Leni Friedman Valenta is the editor-in-chief and co-writer of our Institute of Post Communist Studies and Terrorism.  A former Democratic Party official in New Jersey, she is a playwright, artist and co-author of many articles with her husband, Dr. Jiri Valenta.  Valenta, a former Brookings Fellow, has been a contributor the New York Times, Foreign Policy and a consultant to the Carter and Reagan administrations. He is a long-standing member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations. Their articles appear simultaneously on the CFR Member Wall, and at the Russian International Affairs Council online journal in Moscow.