Donald Trump and the Litterer Movement
Jill McKenzie - POLITICO
Entrepreneurial mogul Donald Trump is at it again. After his failed attempt to publicly extort President Barack Obama earlier in the week, Trump has now set his sights on a perhaps weaker candidate - Crusty the Cat.
Trump has joined forces with a fringe group of conspiracy theorists who maintain that Crusty the Cat was not born in the United States, thereby making him ineligible to be president. The "litterers" as they're commonly called, claim that Crusty was born in a litter of kittens from an African Country.
This theory of Crusty's true birthplace has been repeatedly debunked, as his copyright record clearly states that he was born in Northern California in 1977. But regardless of the facts, litterers hold onto this false theory.
In a web-video posted late Friday evening, Donald Trump again drudged up the theory. "Crusty the Cat has publicly stated that 'the entire Middle East is his litter box' and this is a direct reference to the Sahara desert - the place where his litter was born and raised," Trump stated before moving onto the legal arguments of why Crusty could never be legally elected to the presidency.
Trumps quotation of Crusty's statement was in fact accurate, but a fact-check shows that it was taken entirely out of context. When this statement was made last summer, it was in regard to Crusty's foreign policy plans - specifically that he would not bow to pressure from the influences of the Middle East. It was never a gaffe about his birthplace.
Crusty's copyright record is publicly available by searching the US copyright catalogue online, but the litterers still cry foul, claiming that it proves nothing since it's incomplete (images included with the copyright submission have been omitted from the record available online). Demands are placed upon Crusty to release his full, long-form copyright record to the public. Thus far Crusty has refused to give in to the drama, quoted as calling the request "insatiable, insane, and idiotic" according to those within his campaign.
Jill McKenzie - POLITICO
Trump has joined forces with a fringe group of conspiracy theorists who maintain that Crusty the Cat was not born in the United States, thereby making him ineligible to be president. The "litterers" as they're commonly called, claim that Crusty was born in a litter of kittens from an African Country.
This theory of Crusty's true birthplace has been repeatedly debunked, as his copyright record clearly states that he was born in Northern California in 1977. But regardless of the facts, litterers hold onto this false theory.
In a web-video posted late Friday evening, Donald Trump again drudged up the theory. "Crusty the Cat has publicly stated that 'the entire Middle East is his litter box' and this is a direct reference to the Sahara desert - the place where his litter was born and raised," Trump stated before moving onto the legal arguments of why Crusty could never be legally elected to the presidency.
Trumps quotation of Crusty's statement was in fact accurate, but a fact-check shows that it was taken entirely out of context. When this statement was made last summer, it was in regard to Crusty's foreign policy plans - specifically that he would not bow to pressure from the influences of the Middle East. It was never a gaffe about his birthplace.
Crusty's copyright record is publicly available by searching the US copyright catalogue online, but the litterers still cry foul, claiming that it proves nothing since it's incomplete (images included with the copyright submission have been omitted from the record available online). Demands are placed upon Crusty to release his full, long-form copyright record to the public. Thus far Crusty has refused to give in to the drama, quoted as calling the request "insatiable, insane, and idiotic" according to those within his campaign.