Firstly the editor at Axios insists this was brought up twice and one meeting was memorialised. We will perhaps know in the future when the records are unsealed, eat a lot of fiber, meet you back here in 80 years.
The issue is that Trump is not believable in anything he says or does and has been accepted as a pathological liar etc. for all of his time in the public eye. Unfamiliarity & incapacity to contain all his BS from his past and it being so outrageous has created something of a shield for him. His various personas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonyms_of_Donald_Trump David Dennison etc. and the other known four (including "Carolin" secretary vouching for his not-a-sex-pest-fiend character), his mob connections, money laundering casino (fined for this). The Obama stuff was always obviously just a tactic to discredit. There is so much junk in this man's Trump he has dug his own grave with sensible people and they can't join your side.
He broke the law and the law is winning.
"Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied."
