[guitarplayer1953]

How and the hell can they vote for this if they have not seen his long form birth certificate and have addressed his Indonesian citizenship. This is fraud in it highest form.

[buwaya]

Because they don’t need to. He was indisputably born of a US Citizen mother, and thus fits into the vaguely defined category of “natural born” no matter where he was born. And the attestations of the Hawaiian authorities is pretty clear that his original paper records show Hawaiian birth anyway.

This natural born business is not a settled legal question, and current legal thinking would very probably swing his way if it came to it, even if he was born in Kenya or can be construed to have once had Indonesian citizenship.

If I recall correctly the reason the natural born issue came up originally was because someone wanted his BC. The interesting question is what else is on his original BC. There is likely something else quite embarassing on it, if not the material for a constitutional question.

[I am Richard Brandon]

"How and the hell can they vote for this if they have not seen his long form birth certificate and have addressed his Indonesian citizenship."

That one is easy to answer - they did not read the bill before the passed it.

[philman_36]

How and the hell can they vote for this if they have not seen his long form birth certificate and have addressed his Indonesian citizenship.
They just did it and it looked easy.
It's kind of like passing a bill without reading it.

[Gilbo_3]

How and the hell can they vote for this if they have not seen ...

enter most anything in this space, and that my FRiend is the reality of our 'representation'...