May 30, 2012 08:31 PM UTC

Trump Puts "Birther" Cherry on Romney's Awful Tuesday

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• by: Colorado Pols

As the Washington Post reports, things didn’t get any better yesterday for Mitt Romney following his ill-fated trip to Craig, Colorado in an unsuccessful quest for something to complain about.

Next stop was Vegas, where Donald Trump was waiting to keep it even realer…

Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign collided with Donald Trump’s “birther” rhetoric on Tuesday as the reality television star hosted a fundraiser for the Republican while claiming again that President Barack Obama is foreign-born…

“A lot of people do not think it was an authentic certificate,” Trump told CNN of Obama’s birth certificate, just hours before he was set to host Romney’s finance event at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.

Such allegations have been repeatedly proven false. The state of Hawaii recently re-affirmed that Obama was born there.

Trump’s comments, repeated in several media interviews Tuesday, overshadowed Romney’s visit to Nevada, one of a handful of swing states expected to decide the presidential contest in November…

Romney did not address the issue directly at separate events in Colorado and Nevada, but on Monday night he told reporters aboard his campaign plane that Trump is entitled to his opinion.

We haven’t heard reaction yet from Rep. Mike Coffman, whose increasingly groveling apologies for his own caught-on-tape “birther” rhetoric earlier this month have thrilled his Democratic adversaries and dismayed fellow Republicans–but we would hope Coffman’s on the phone with Mitt Romney today, reminding him how “every time we talk about this, we lose.” This includes the hosts of your fundraisers, as Rep. Cory Gardner can speak to from experience.

After the morning Romney had in Colorado, where the whole purpose of his campaign stop was embarrassingly debunked in real time, a worse evening would have been tough to pull off.

But once again Trump, and by extension Mitt Romney, has outdone himself.