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Donald Trump Releases His Birth Certificate, Or Certificate Of Birth, Or Something To Newsmax

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The latest chapter in the unfolding saga of the Donald Trump Traveling Birther Circus almost has me convinced that The Donald is punking Republicans, and his prospective presidential bid is really a work of brilliant performance art. On Monday, Trump released what he called his “Birth Certificate” to Newsmax, the Grey Lady of conservative news hubs. But according to reporting by Politico, the document Trump released isn’t actually an official birth certificate, but rather, a “Certificate of Birth” that hospitals give out.

While Politico does deserve some credit, a cursory glance at the document immediately raises doubts:


I kid, of course. You can see the document Trump gave to Newsmax here.

The distinction between a “Birth Certificate” and a “Certificate of Birth” closely mirrors the similar distinction between a “Birth Certificate” and a “Certificate of Live Birth” (a major pillar of birtherism), with a key difference: a “Certificate of Live Birth,” which Barack Obama produced long ago, actually is an official document to verify time and place of birth. According to Politico, the same cannot be said of Trump’s Certificate of Birth:

But after several New York City-based readers contacted POLITICO’s Maggie Haberman, her call to city officials revealed that an actual birth certificate, which is issued by the Department of Health, would have the agency’s seal and also a signature of the city registrar – neither of which the Trump document has. Officials said the city Health Department is the “sole issuing authority” of official birth certificates in New York, and that the document would clearly say so, and “city officials said it’s not an official document.”

Coupled with the recently “uncovered” details of Trump’s sweeping 1999 wealth redistribution plan, his candidacy is devolving into a parody worthy of Weird Al Yankovic.

Politico does a little bit of its own parody, mimicking Birther “logic” in their deadpan closing paragraph:

Trump’s mother, it should be noted, was born in Scotland, which is not part of the United States. His plane is registered in the Bahamas, also a foreign country. This fact pattern — along with the wave of new questions surrounding what he claims is a birth certificate — raises serious doubts about his eligibility to serve as President of the United States.

Unfortunately for Trump, eligibility is probably the least of his obstacles to becoming president, but if it helps any, I’ll vouch for him. The last thing I want to do is end Trump’s supernova-brilliant run for the Oval Office.

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  • skyfet

    GOP jokers, please help put someone who admitted live on TV that he screwed a Dictator. You Jokers love your so much that you would help put a crook screw America even more. Shame on you all, I thought you love America.

  • skyfet

    GOP jokers, please help put someone who admitted live on TV that he screwed a Dictator. You Jokers love your Country so much that you would help put a crook screw America even more. Shame on you all, I thought you love America

  • Barack Must Go

    skyfet said:
    GOP jokers, please help put someone who admitted live on TV that he screwed a Dictator. You Jokers love your so much that you would help put a crook screw America even more. Shame on you all, I thought you love America.

    Huh?

  • Barack Must Go

    skyfet said:
    GOP jokers, please help put someone who admitted live on TV that he screwed a Dictator. You Jokers love your Country so much that you would help put a crook screw America even more. Shame on you all, I thought you love America

    ….and huh again?

  • Thelonious Funk

    Who’s cares about his Birth Certificate? Until he proves that his hair is real, I’m convinced that he’s a secret Kenyan, Muslim Socialist

  • cjd ohio 1

    another trump birther shit article, what a surprise

  • Steve_27

    I dont care about Trumps bc because he didn’t spend time growing up in muslim countries, practicing islam or apologizing to islam for America’s actions.

    Gee, that was simple.

  • skyfet

    Barack Must Go said:
    ….and huh again?

    Dummy! you need to be attentive to current details. Trump said he screwed Ghaddafi, so elect him and he might screw America.

  • ProObamaAgenda

    Republikkklan politicians are clowns, and you dumbasses that embrace them are even worse….for the life of me i cant figure out why news networks give shitheads like Trump any tv time. i guess the reality has set in already, theres not a repuke out there anywhere that has a snowballs chance in hell of beating Obama, so theyve decided to muck up the whole process with a bunch of useless BS to appease the anti intellectual republican fan base

  • OxyCon

    Tommy, I can’t believe that you’re still misleading your readers about Trump’s one-time tax plan to pay down the national debt, especially since I already corrected you on the other thread.
    What you’re doing is exactly what disingenuous and dishonest left wing bloggers do.

  • tatboy

    I love me some Weird Al… I am “White and Nerdy”.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    Steve_27 said:
    I dont care about Trumps bc because he didn’t spend time growing up in muslim countries, practicing islam or apologizing to islam for America’s actions.

    Gee, that was simple.

    Yep Obama’s a secret Muslim out to get you. lol.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Laurence-Glavin/100000568386394 Laurence Glavin

    He spent the whole of Ramadan wolfing down food, sometime containing pork, between sunrise and sundown. Some Muslim! By the way, many people who are the offspring of the military or the ambassadorial service, grow up in foreign countries. Are THEY unfit for the Oval Office?

  • LOGICandREASON

    I bet Donald Trump would be laughing at the liberal media now who seem caught up in this, considering their adoration of the Obamaessiah and refusal to thoroughly vet the then candidate Obama as real journalists ought to have done. I mean they cannot vigorously scrutinize Trump’s Certificate now without indirectly calling Obama’s into question.

    Who would have thought that Politico’s Ben Smith knew the difference between a Birth Certificate and a Certification of Live Birth; it’s interesting to see him highlight the difference now after 3 years, and Trump should be given credit for this. Trump is smartly revealing the hypocrisy of the media who have done more scrutiny of his citizenship in 48 hours than they did of Obama in 3 years.

    The most shameful part for the liberal media will come when The Donald eventually releases the full version original Birth Certificate. Someday you’ll understand that Trump is a smart dude just as he consistently claims he is. “It’s not bragging if you can back it up.” —-Muhammad Ali

  • jb@baro.com

    The fact is that only two people know whether or not President Obama was born in the US. The President himself and Dr. Fukimo Director of the Department of Health Hawaii. While Dr. Fukino confirmed a certificate exists, he did not say whether it was a “late birth” certificate or a “live birth” certificate. In either case, the Certification of Birth that has been widely circulated would have been issued by the department of health to prove that one or the other is on file.

    How do I know, It was my investigation and subsequent affidavit used in all 19 Federal Cases throughout the US.

  • catfishjuggling

    Yawn.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    If you can’t appreciate the cabbage patch humor then you have no heart.

  • http://www.obesitywars.net/ Klaatu

    jb@baro.com said:
    The fact is that only two people know whether or not President Obama was born in the US. The President himself and Dr. Fukimo Director of the Department of Health Hawaii. While Dr. Fukino confirmed a certificate exists, he did not say whether it was a “late birth” certificate or a “live birth” certificate. In either case, the Certification of Birth that has been widely circulated would have been issued by the department of health to prove that one or the other is on file. How do I know, It was my investigation and subsequent affidavit used in all 19 Federal Cases throughout the US.

    What part of “CERTIFICATION OF LIVE BIRTH”, on President Obama’s birth certificate, is confusing you?

  • LOGICandREASON

    “But after several New York City-based readers contacted POLITICO’s Maggie Haberman, her call to city officials revealed that an actual birth certificate, which is issued by the Department of Health, would have the agency’s seal and also a signature of the city registrar – neither of which the Trump document has. Officials said the city Health Department is the “sole issuing authority” of official birth certificates in New York, and that the document would clearly say so, and “city officials said it’s not an official document.”

    ———————–

    Maybe Politico’s Ben Smith and Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher should have Obama release his own full version official Birth Certificate.

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/trump-tries-again-the-donald-releases-official-birth-certificate/

    Some of you folks don’t deserve the appellation “Journalist”, you are simply political hacks whose mission is to promote the agenda of progressives like you. Objectivity and fairness are none of your virtues.

  • LOGICandREASON
  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    Must attack Trump. Must attack Trump. Must attack Trump…

  • WHarropson

    I like Trump for the character he is but am dubious of him as a candidate, but It is possible that he may have squandered a unique PR rope a dope media opportunity.

    First you start with the least original birth announcement documents similar to Obama’s, and let that play out for an extended and hopefully tortured period of time to build up the momentum, and then you release the forensically accurate and verifyable one later. I know that would be mockingly devious, but it would be an appropriate parody of our President, only with the full disclosure to show the contrast.

    If Trump sat at his desk looking at something less than a convincing COB, then trotted it out to make his point without advice from those who have studied the Obama issue, then he is pretty dumb. Braggadoccio may get you out of a lot of things, but it just may not commend you on this thing.

  • eingriff

    I’m not amused by the lame attempts at wise guy humor.

    Both documents released by Donald John Trump are birth certificates, contemporaneous records of birth showing birth parents.

    The fact (if it be true) that Mr. Trump’s mother was born in Scotland is wholly irrelevant to Mr. Trump’s eligibility to the Office of President as a natural born U.S. citizen. If both of his parents were U.S. citizens at the time of his birth in the U.S.A. on 14 June 1946, he was a natural born U.S. at the time of his birth. Moreover, there is no reason to suspect that he has lost his U.S. citizenship since then.

    Does anybody doubt that Mr. Trump’s parents were both U.S. citizens at the time of his birth in the U.S.A.?

    Is there any doubt whatever that Mr. Trump remains a U.S. citizen to this very day?

    Mr. Obama has not yet released his birth certificate, a contemporaneous record of birth showing birth parents.

    It is highly probable that Mr. Obama became an Indonesian citizen as a lad of tender years, thereby losing his U.S. citizenship and eligibility as a natural born U.S. citizen. The term “natural born citizen” subsumes “citizen”. He can’t be a natural born U.S. citizen if he’s not a U.S. citizen at all, even if he was a natural born citizen at birth.

    Mr. Obama’s failure to disclose his original birth certificate is a license to speculate. Here is my hypothetical of Mr. Obama’s vital records in the custody of Hawai’i's director of the Department of Health, based largely on the most authoritative official statement currently available to the public on his status at the time of his birth, issued in July of 2009 of Dr. Chiyome Leinaala Fukino, then director of the Hawai’i State Department of Health, quoted in full at page 76 of “The Manchurian President” and below:

    “I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawai’i State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawai’i State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawai’i and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago.”

    A record of birth showing his birth parents was created when Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Hawai’i of 4 August 1961. His birth parents were born and bred U.S. citizens. That’s why Dr. Fukino says Mr. Obama was “a natural-born American citizen.” Obama the Luo could not be Mr. Obama’s birth father. That would make Dr. Fukino’s statement that he was a natural-born citizen wrong. I’m assuming Dr. Fukino is right. The original birth certificate is necessary to confirm that Mr. Obama was a natural-born U.S. citizen. It will also confirm that the alien Luo was not his birth father. This will expose Obama’s political manifesto “Dreams from my Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance” as a total fabrication and a gigantic hoax.

    At birth, Mr. Obama was adopted by Stanley Ann Dunham (the birth father’s daughter) and the father’s communist friend Obama the Luo tribesman. Stanley Ann and the Luo entered a platonic union as part of the scheme.

    Mr. Trump showed a sound intuition when he said there was something in Mr. Obama’s birth certificate he did not want us to see. Millions share this intuition. Mr. Obama himself says that people who conceal things have something to hide. What Mr. Obama is hiding, what he really, really does not want us to see is that Obama the alien Luo tribesman is his adoptive father, not his birth father.

    Genetic genealogy has become routine. Mr. Obama’s DNA would disprove his claimed birth parents, who are really his adoptive parents. The genetic haplogroup of his father is inconsistent with that of a Luo tribesman, that of his mother inconsistent with a Caucasian.

    Unlike Mr. Trump, there is ample reason to suspect that Mr. Obama became an Indonesian citizen, and has made corrupt bargains at American expense to suppress evidence of that citizenship. Heretofore concealed evidence such as U.S. school records must also contain something Mr. Obama doesn’t want us to see, such as evidence of Indonesian citizenship that would also evince the probability that Indonesian citizenship records have been corruptly destroyed or concealed.

    Impeach Obama. Exhaustive investigation is prerequisite. Falsely claiming parents who were not his and a U.S. citizenship he had lost are among the many possible grounds to be investigated.

    Time is of essence. Obama is probably an enemy agent whose real allegiance is to the Comintern.

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