As absurd as it seems, I believe that yes, obummer was in fact limited in his forgery resources. You can’t just farm out a top secret project like that, without putting yourself at risk. Plus, the number of people willing to risk prison (and possible treason charges?) narrows the pool considerably.
I’m guessing bark had to ask someone in the inner circle to make the doc. Knowing he could count on most of the media to ignore it anyway, and threatening (breitbarting) the ones who refused.
Present a hypothesis (such as numerous forged government records and an associated cover-up) that if true would require a massive conspiracy which would have to involve near a dozen government agencies, both major political parties as well a many, many people.
But then to rationalize a completely different point they might say things like: “You can’t just farm out a top secret project like that, without putting yourself at risk. Plus, the number of people willing to risk prison (and possible treason charges?) narrows the pool considerably.”
You're suggesting Obama is willing to assassinate a high profile conservative thorn in his side, but somehow an amateur hack Photoshop forger can inexplicably blackmail the president into sparing his life.
This scenario is more plausible to you than the simple explanation that extracting layers from an unlayered digital image file, an old technology, is actually what happened?