Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Trump: 'Why Can't He Produce a Birth Certificate?'
National Journal ^ | 03/28/2011 | Katy O'Donnell

Posted on 03/28/2011 7:58:34 AM PDT by Smokeyblue

Real estate mogul and potential 2012 presidential contender Donald Trump defended his questioning of President Obama’s birth certificate Monday morning with a defiant, “this guy either has a birth certificate or he doesn’t.”

“I am really concerned,” Trump said in a phone interview on Fox & Friends. “You have no doctors that remember, you have no nurses -- this is the president of the United States -- that remember. … He could have been born outside of this country. Why can’t he produce a birth certificate?”

Trump, who has been flirting with a run for president, first made a remark about the so-called “birther” issue last week on The View. Obama provided news organizations with a scan of his birth certificate during his 2008 campaign, which some oulets also independently vetted.

“I brought it up just routinely, and now I’m starting to wonder myself whether he was born in this country,” Trump said Monday.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; birthers; certifigate; donaldtrump; naturalborncitizen; obama
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 101-120121-140141-160161-173 next last
To: KarlInOhio

Remembering this particular birth would have been a no-brainer, given the racial tension and demographics at play in Hawaii in 1961.


141 posted on 03/28/2011 11:42:02 AM PDT by NOVACPA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: PA-RIVER
The last time we saw something like this, it was Dan Rather accusing Bush of going AWOL.

Similar, however, you have to agree that in this case there is no document, aside from a dubious computer generated late date concoction of a COLB, to ponder whether it is 'fake but accurate' or not.....hahhahahahahaha

142 posted on 03/28/2011 11:50:57 AM PDT by Gaffer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 139 | View Replies]

To: LibertarianLiz

Agreed. Presenting a valid birth certificate would end this and make all of ‘us’ look like fools if we’re wrong.You know they’d like to- so why not do it?
The only reason to stonewall is if we’re right.
Constitutional crisis is the main problem. What if this nation were to find itself with an unqualified President? Methinks there are those in power who would rather tough this out till his term ends( assuming Obama will allow that to happen), and avert the crisis and decision altogether.
What if it were proven he was foreign born-then we’d have a part of this country insisting that his removal would be more damaging than letting him sit.
I would not be one of them. Is the U.S. ready to see a President put out of office and uphold the law despite the controversy? It comes down to that-and as the pressure builds I have to surmise that there are those on BOTH sides who don’t want to deal with the travesty that has been foisted upon this nation.


143 posted on 03/28/2011 12:01:23 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies]

To: nikos1121

Every single American born in this country has a paper trail a mile long. Why not this guy?

THAT’s it in a nutshell!
This front man has been sanitized. We’re just beginning to see why.


144 posted on 03/28/2011 12:08:41 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 94 | View Replies]

To: Gaffer
And ......

George Bush released all Documents immediately after the accusation.

Obama is putting people in jail to keep them a secret.

Not looking good for Soebarkah.

145 posted on 03/28/2011 12:12:45 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 142 | View Replies]

To: PA-RIVER
And this is a dangerous situation for the poweratti RINOs in Congress. They just can't muster up the balls to stand ground and fight. It is against their nature. They are cowards and need to be removed, period.
146 posted on 03/28/2011 12:17:49 PM PDT by Gaffer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 145 | View Replies]

To: TroutGuy

>>Ok, but that presupposes that it was very important to the family that Barack be seen as having been born in the US at the time.<<

No it doesn’t. I was born in a different town then where my grandparents lived and they put a notice in their local paper of my birth in 1948 because it was important to them and their local friends. It was done all the time. It has no baring on the future importance.


147 posted on 03/28/2011 12:20:11 PM PDT by CynicalBear
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: Georgia Girl 2
In Oct of 2008 when Barry went to HI to ostensibly visit the sick Grandma he had a meeting with the supervisor of elections about his eligibility. The Hawaii Democratic Party was refusing to issue a nomination certification due to the fact that Obama was unable to produce satisfactory eligibility docs. So he was at that time not on the ballot in HI. Finally Nazi Pelosi sent a DNC nomination cert signed by her to the HI supervisor of elections and through a legal loophole in HI election laws he made the decision to put Barry on the ballot.

While I knew that it was actually Pelosi's certification that certified him for Hawaii, I did not know it was as late as October 08. For real?

148 posted on 03/28/2011 12:33:32 PM PDT by Yaelle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 77 | View Replies]

To: Danae

John McCain’s parents were both American citizens.


149 posted on 03/28/2011 1:15:35 PM PDT by Locomotive Breath
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 119 | View Replies]

To: Fu-fu2

Remember, they all went out there and sprinkled what may or may not have been her ashes on some rocks overlooking the ocean. They were laughing and cutting up. I think it was when they went to Hawaii that first Christmas after the election when he was Mr. “president elect” They whole family makes me barf.


150 posted on 03/28/2011 1:17:18 PM PDT by dandiegirl
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 122 | View Replies]

To: Fu-fu2

Remember, they all went out there and sprinkled what may or may not have been her ashes on some rocks overlooking the ocean. They were laughing and cutting up. I think it was when they went to Hawaii that first Christmas after the election when he was Mr. “president elect” The whole family makes me barf.


151 posted on 03/28/2011 1:17:39 PM PDT by dandiegirl
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 122 | View Replies]

To: Locomotive Breath
I agree, they were both American Citizens.

And if that was all that was important, then McCain would not have needed SR 511 would he?

The reason he needed it was because he was born in Panama. Some say at the military base there, others, including McCains Birth Certificate says Colon Hospital which is of course in Colon. That is not the U.S. Naval base. He was not born on US territory, under the sole jurisdiction of the United States.

Take this analogy, this will perhaps make more sense.

You have two Mexican Illegal aliens who arrive in Amarillo Texas, with the wife in Labor. She has the baby in Amarillo, and that baby is one that we refer to as an anchor baby, as that child is born American, but no one argues that the child doesn't ALSO have Mexican Citizenship. Of course it does, his parents are Mexican, and just because you are born in a foreign country doesn't mean you won't inherit your parents citizenship! Now, is that baby a Natural Born Mexican Citizen? Nope, the conditions of its birth include the detail that it was not born in Mexico. It was born in the United States and is also American because it was born under the jurisdiction of the USA. That child is American according to current American Law, but is ALSO Mexican because that is the Nation of that child's parents.

This is John McCain's situation and is WHY he needed that senate resolution. If he was indeed a Natural Born Citizen, born inside the USA, it would have been irrelevant. But he wasn't. You could call him an Panamanian Anchor Baby.

Whats more, Natural Born Citizenship cannot be conferred AFTER birth. It describes the conditions OF that birth. The conditions of his birth were: He was born with blue eyes, weighed X.X pounds, had birthmark X, his foot prints were (this), he was born at x:xx(am/pm) and was born at Colon Hospital in Colon Panama to parents XXXXX and XXXXX Citizens of the USA. This child is a citizen of the United States, born to parents who are citizens, and born in the Nation of Panama. He was born under the jurisdiction of Panama.

I think McCain was chosen DELIBERATELY as the candidate to run against Obama, because they both had the same issues. McCain wasn't going to bring up the same issue against Obama which also made him ineligible. That isn't even tinfoil hat territory. What might be tinfoilhattish is the idea that if there is indeed a group deliberately selecting presidents for us to vote into office - say the Bilderberg group - who would benefit from having that pesky constitution out of the way.... put in a POTUS who breaks the constitution, and bingo, no more Constitution getting in the way of their consolidation of money and power.

Evidence of that is circumstantial at best, but this much is certain, there are a LOT of Bilderberger members who made off with a lot of that TARP and Stimulus money. TARP was unconstitutionally dispersed (monies went to Italian FIAT in the purchase of GM, a direct violation of the law, so they just called it a loan, then forgave the loan), and the stimulus, well we know how that went.

A who lot of rich people who supported an unconstitutional POTUS have benefited handsomely from a POTUS unbound by the constitution. We however have gotten screwed. But then that's why the constitution matters, it was supposed to protect us, and CAN'T while an usurper holds office. McCain or Obama.... they both had the same problem. Either way we were gonna get an unconstitutional POTUS.

I don't think that was accidental.

152 posted on 03/28/2011 1:57:12 PM PDT by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 149 | View Replies]

To: pgkdan
You need a BC to get a state id card. You need a BC to get a passport, but somehow it’s unreasonable to ask obama to produce his to sit in the Oval Office?

And yet he managed to get both.

153 posted on 03/28/2011 2:05:10 PM PDT by itsahoot (Almost everything I post is Sarcastic, since I have no sense of humor about lying politicians.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Oldexpat
Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate
154 posted on 03/28/2011 2:11:50 PM PDT by itsahoot (Almost everything I post is Sarcastic, since I have no sense of humor about lying politicians.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: freebird5850
Also the vetting form for Hawaii is different than those for the rest of the states. All these small cracks are getting larger.

Actually Hawaii didn't qualify him, which is why there were two different qualification statements signed and submitted by Pelosi and the Party.

Has everyone forgot that the current governor of Hawaii said that no birth certificate exists for Obama?

155 posted on 03/28/2011 2:17:14 PM PDT by itsahoot (Almost everything I post is Sarcastic, since I have no sense of humor about lying politicians.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: ASA Vet
They all indicate Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama is NOT a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.

You can not bring that up, you must say he was born in Kenya, else the truth may come out.

156 posted on 03/28/2011 2:32:32 PM PDT by itsahoot (Almost everything I post is Sarcastic, since I have no sense of humor about lying politicians.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: blondee123
We’d have been much better off with Hillary than this country is today!

Have you forgotten HillaryCare?

157 posted on 03/28/2011 2:35:58 PM PDT by itsahoot (Almost everything I post is Sarcastic, since I have no sense of humor about lying politicians.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 65 | View Replies]

To: Danae
Juan isn’t an NBC either.

No he isn't, but you and maybe three other people know that.

158 posted on 03/28/2011 2:44:21 PM PDT by itsahoot (Almost everything I post is Sarcastic, since I have no sense of humor about lying politicians.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 82 | View Replies]

To: exDemMom
Not remembering seeing someone in college isn't that big a deal.

Was your friend president of the Harvard Law Review? Probably not.

159 posted on 03/28/2011 2:48:40 PM PDT by itsahoot (Almost everything I post is Sarcastic, since I have no sense of humor about lying politicians.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 93 | View Replies]

To: itsahoot

Thats the beauty of FR. Now, thanks to Donald Trump... LOTS of people know it.

Anyone who asks the question: “Well if this is true, why didn’t McCain POUND him iwth it in 08?” Well, because McCain has the same problem, and NO act of congress can retroactive Natural Born Citizenship any more than they can change a baby’s eyecolor, or their footprints. They are what they are.

McCain was the ONLY candidate Obama could run against and NOT face that issue. It is WHY Obama wanted to run against him. McCain wasn’t going to raise the same issue against Obama he could not withstand himself.

Thanks Donald! Now millions know it! (Or at least I hope that many will read these words and spread them to others.)


160 posted on 03/28/2011 2:51:31 PM PDT by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 158 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 101-120121-140141-160161-173 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson