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CNN Lets 'You Decide' About Trump's 'Birther' Claims (VIDEO)

Eric Lach | April 8, 2011, 4:20PM

As you may have heard, Donald Trump has recently gone full "birther" -- openly questioning whether President Obama was born in the U.S. and demanding to see a satisfactory birth certificate -- as part of his public flirtation with a possible presidential bid. And if you've been watching cable news, you might have noticed that the networks have been giving plenty of airtime to Trump and his debunked conspiracy theories, which had been all but relegated to the darkest corners of the net.

CNN got in on the action Friday afternoon with a little segment that lets "you decide" whether Trump's rants are valid or not, treating a point of fact as though it were theory.

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