Does it really matter who in some distant past may or may not have started to question President Obama's citizenship Mr. Velsko? You know as well as I that every legitimate fact checking organization has disproven that connection. What matters really is that Trump pursued that ugly, racist conspiracy as the foundation of his entire political persona for at least eight years now. Birtherism is who Trump is. It is what made the man a contender in the eyes of his racist, bigoted, misogynist followers. He took the issue and made it into his trademark.