The final collapse of Trump’s oldest political lie

It began more than a decade ago.

In 2011, Donald Trump began - not for the first time - to rumble about possibly seeking the presidency. He didn't have a campaign platform, as such, instead using the possibility of a bid to attract attention and vice versa. The political cause on which his effort was centered came (as was also the case four years later) from the fringe of the conservative media world: questioning Barack Obama's birthplace.