My only issue with Trump’s birtherism was his lack of follow through. It seems crystal clear that the long-form that supposedly “settled” the issue was a low-quality forgery.
Obama’s LFBC is more of a pro forma fabrication than a forgery. Originally Obama had no LFBC on record in HI. There are several eyewitness references to some handwritten notations in his file, but that’s all there was.
HI readily produced a Certificate of Live Birth based on the notations. The theory is that Obama’s grandma Dunham got those notations in his file by registering the birth (which had taken place in Canada) via nefarious means. Those records would pass muster if no one questioned or investigated them—and of course no one did.
Getting a LFBC wasn’t as easy. It had to include false information—for example, the home address. Stanley Ann wasn’t living there (or anywhere else in HI) at the time. Nevertheless, these types of informal, imprecise fabrications are routine. One is slapped together following an adoption, for instance. No one picks it apart and no one questions it.
In Obama’s case the fabrication was placed under a microscope. Anyone short of an Obot could see that it had been cut and pasted together. Not all the information on it matched what little had been contained in the handwritten notes, either. But thanks to Alinsky, the kneepad press and an online army of Obots, the issue went nowhere. That’s not to say we won’t get the truth in the long run. It just hasn’t come out publicly yet.