Jose Antonio Vargas: Trump ‘Made the Biggest Part of His Political Life When He Questioned the Citizenship of a Sitting President’

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VARGAS: "I was in college when Pat Buchanan wrote a book called 'The Death of the West.' Do you remember that? Samuel Huntington, the whole anti-immigrant wave didn‘t happen overnight. Trump just basically picked up a $500 bill on the floor and said, 'I‘m going to go run on this.' And also, let‘s remember, I covered Barack Obama for The Washington Post in 2008 and back then when people were like, 'Oh, isn‘t he a Muslim? Isn‘t he a...' Like — and remember now, Donald Trump made — the biggest part of his political life was when he questioned the citizenship of a sitting president. When that whole conversation happened, that should have disqualified him from this conversation. And yet what has happened?"