The presidential race has been pretty crazy as of late, and it recently provided Big Law Business with a pretty crazy question.
Does President Barack Obama have any grounds for legal claims against Donald Trump for knowingly spreading false information (or, lying, as The New York Times reported it) about POTUS’s place of birth?
Trump’s so-called ‘birther conspiracy,’ that Obama was not actually born in Hawaii where his birth certificate states, was recently revived when Trump admitted Obama was born in the U.S., but falsely placed blame on Hillary Clinton for starting the unfounded rumor.
The degree to which the birther controversy ...
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