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>> of course, there's always been a paranoid fringe in our politics. a lot of it arising from racial resentment, but it's never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national mega phone until now. >> reporter: and she took particular aim at trump for his years long obsession with president obama's birth certificate. >> barack obama should end this, and he should provide the public with a birth certificate. >> reporter: trump took the conspiracy theory that president obama wasn't actually american, main stream, and did not admit the truth until shortly bef...

Voted for him. >> i guess it shows there's a lot of hostility in this country. >> reporter: in july of 2016, trump tweeted this picture of hillary clinton against a background of dollar bills which came from a white supremacist message board. he called it a creation of the dishonest media. >> it's a star! and it actually looks like a sheriff's star, but i don't know. >> reporter: not long after, he weathered scathing criticism from clinton, who said he was embracing the alt-right, a group linked to white supremacy, anti-feminism and xenophobia. >> of course, there's always been a paranoid frin...

>> now of course there's always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, a lot of it rising from racial resentment. but it's never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national mega phone until now. >> reporter: and she took particular aim at trump for his obsession with president obama's birth certificate. >> barack obama should end this and he should provide the public with a birth certificate. >> reporter: trump took the fringe conspiracy theory that the president wasn't actually american mainstream, and in october, he insisted to cnn that the so-calle...

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