Michelle Obama's memoir, "Becoming," lays out some of the former first lady's most damning statements on record against President Donald Trump, according to excerpts published ahead of the book's release next week. In the book, Obama reportedly chastised Trump for promoting what she called the "dangerous" birther conspiracy that could have endangered her family's safety. "The whole [birther] thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed," Obama wrote, according to a Washington Post review. "But it was also dangerous, deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks." For years, even prior to the 2012 US presidential election, Trump advocated the racist conspiracy theory that questioned the authenticity of President Barack Obama's birth certificate and his citizenship. read more https://www.businessinsider.com/mic...-for-birther-conspiracy-becoming-book-2018-11
