There was a question of whether Obama was born in the states. Hillary started it. Private citizen Trump and some on the right picked up on it. Most republicans, myself included, didn't give it much credence. Obama, seeing an opportunity to use the issue as a political tool, withheld his BC to keep it going.
End of story. It pegs my 'I don't care meter'.
It had little to do with where we are today. What got us here, are weak republicans. As I pointed out, they should be voting to reign in Mueller's investigation and hold him to his 'Russia only' mandate instead of voting to hamstring Trump on it.
That's the sort of thing that got us to this point. I marvel that more people don't see it.