” Which doesn’t explain why he doesn’t simply request the original birth certificate be “unsealed” if its possible to do it.”
I don’t think he even has to do that. All he has to say is the truth: I was born “barack h. obama”, but my name was changed when I was adopted. I prefer my birth name. Then he could say that the forgery was concocted by some of his overzealous supporters, blah, blah. blah...
This would vanish overnight.
You are right, but instead he chose to use the fake document and put it on his website to fight lies against him.