Hawaii issued birth certificates to children born outside the country when entering the country with an American parent at the time. When the certificate was issued the newspapers would have made the announcement - regardless if he was actually born in the US.
Point being if he was not actually physically born in Hawaii he would not be “natural born” under his parental circumstances as required by the US constitution. So far no evidence has been provided to document that he was actually physically born in Hawaii. That is Fact.
“His mother had been outside the country too long to qualify her son to be a citizen automatically”
I had not heard that you lost your ability to pass on citizenship by living outside the US above a specified period of time. Can you point me to a link on that rule? Nothing on the State Department website that I ran across says that.
Per the State Department:
“Under the Child Citizenship Act, the U.S. citizen parent of a child living abroad must have five years of physical presence in the United States or its outlying possessions with at least two years occurring after age 14, in order to apply for citizenship on behalf of the child.”
It says five years with at least two after age 14 but it says nothing about losing your ability to pass it on beyond that.