text: "I had to say this crap about Obama's birth because I need the racist bumpkins to win.  I mean, look at me:  I'm standing in the five star hotel I'm opening in Washington.  Those rural rednecks are never setting foot in here, any more than those hillbillies are gonna join Mar-a-Lago.... 
  
  "Some of the smartest people in America fell for Bernie Madoff's scam.  Trump knows what every con man knows, telling people what they want to hear...."
  
  Paul Begala, CNN