I don't want to be Pollyanna here; but the very suggestion that "the press" may be involved in investigating Barry's legitimacy (no pun intended) could be the key to salvation.
In this universe it just might be that the "people", the "machine", "government", and military are all equally incapable of realistic action. After all, "the people" have asked these questions repeatedly and been stonewalled repeatedly.
After all the support they've given him, after all the bias they've demonstrated (and denied), and their bone headed adherence to ideology, it just might be that the press (media) is the only means left to derail this freight train.
“After all the support they’ve given him, after all the bias they’ve demonstrated (and denied), and their bone headed adherence to ideology, it just might be that the press (media) is the only means left to derail this freight train”.
Just look at the media, unexpectedly turning on the switch this week as a chorus drumming up anger against the additional search procedures of the TSA.