‘Nice Try’: Matthews Gets Testy with GOP Rep. for Downplaying Trump’s Birtherism

For the second night in the row, Chris Matthews got testy with a Donald Trump surrogate over Trump’s refusal to denounce his birtherism.

Former Congressman Jack Kingston laid the blame on birtherism at Hillary Clinton‘s feet because of some nasty rumors that were going around about President Obama back then. Matthews said, “Give me the evidence. Where did she say this?”

Kingston claimed he’s seen a memo from the Clinton campaign wanting to play this up. Matthews invited him to go find it and give it to him because “you can’t say Hillary Clinton is the mother of the birther movement without evidence.”

Kingston affirmed what Rudy Giuliani said yesterday––that Trump is no longer a birther. Why? Because he stopped talking about it.

Matthews shot back, “That was a nice try.”

Kingston also battled Joy Reid when she said views like birtherism are why Trump became more widely embraced as a political figure, and not something like trade.

Watch above, via MSNBC.

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