Posted on 03/25/2011 6:40:34 AM PDT by Red Steel
“Of course I’d release it. In two seconds I’d release it. If I decide to run, I’ll absolutely release it,” Donald Trump said in an interview with The Daily Caller Thursday, referring to his own birth certificate. “I have it right on my desk. I have it right here, right now, right this minute. I am literally looking at it. Because, based on this I said, ‘do me a favor, get me my birth certificate.’ I have my original birth certificate right here.”
Donald Trump has been thinking a lot about birth certificates lately. Indeed, he has made questions about Barack Obama’s birth certificate a pivotal part of his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. And it appears to be working. One recent poll has Trump running fifth in the GOP field, just two points behind former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
“There’s a very clear niche in the Republican primary,” said longtime political consultant Roger Stone. “It’s a brilliant base-building move. There’s a very active, fervent subset of voters interested in this.” Stone, who has worked for Trump in years past, says he has no paid role in Trump’s current campaign, though he does allow that the two continue to “talk politics from time to time.”
Republican pollster John McLaughlin agrees that Trump’s remarks may be part of a larger, and potentially effective, campaign strategy. “Just like Obama won the nomination as the most anti-Bush candidate, the Republican nomination is going to be won by the most anti-Obama candidate,” McLaughlin said. “He’s positioning himself to be the most aggressive candidate against Obama. If you want to win a primary that’s the way you win a primary.”
For his part, Trump denies that raising questions about Obama’s birth certificate has anything to do with his own political ambitions. “No. Not at all. Not at all,” he said.
With that said, Trump launches into a passionate and detailed discussion of the subject. “We’ve studied it very closely. His family doesn’t even know what hospital he was born in. You know that, right? Do you know that? This is all fact. This is all in the records.”
The publicly-released records of Obama’s birth include a “short-form” certification of live birth created in 2007, a document adequate to apply for a U.S. passport. Yet, as Trump points out, Obama has never released his hospital-produced, “long form” birth certificate. “Here’s the thing: why doesn’t he release his birth certificate?” Trump asked. “If they have it, why don’t they release it?”
Asked if he believes Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, as contemporaneous newspaper announcements suggest, Trump repeated the same line several times: “I want to see his birth certificate.”
Told that the current governor of Hawaii, Democrat Neil Abercrombie, has claimed he remembers Obama’s birth, Trump scoffed. “Well, I think it’s pretty unusual that … a governor currently sitting is going to think back to 50 years and say ‘I remember when he was born.’ Pretty unusual, right? He must have a pretty good memory.”
“I hope he was born in this country,” Trump said. “But the word ‘hope’ is not good enough because if he’s president, he has to be born in the country.”
“I hope he was born in this country,” Trump said. “But the word ‘hope’ is not good enough because if he’s president, he has to be born in the country.”
Thanks Don!! There he is, doing the work the MSM SHOULD HAVE DONE!
Donald is the gadfly this process NEEDS!!
The Donald has the resources and the will to expose the truth, whatever that may be.
Good for him to take the straightforward approach.
After all, we have to prove our identity many times, why shouldn’t the president of be immune from the same.
LoL!
Trump legitimizes the Birth Certificate question.
Trump is doing good stuff here. However, he needs to learn that Obama’s place of birth is not really the key issue. His father’s identity is the key thing. If his father was Brack Obama Sr, then he is not eligible to be in the White House.
I wonder if/when he’s going to expand the question to ‘bammer’s other records - school records, transcripts, SSNs, selective service registration, applications for admissions and scholarships, etc.
I think that “The Donald” already knows the truth. He is just stoking the fire for what will be a very big burn of the MSM and others like Pelosi and Reid.
Bachmann didn’t back down from the BC issue as well. Keep it up Donald and maybe....just maybe you might get my vote.
You know - perhaps that’s what the “secret” is.
His BC-listed father would disqualify him.
This might be why he consistently says he was born in Hawaii, and doesn’t ever mention whether he’s eligible for the presidency.
Go Trump!
Guaranteed his religion is listed as Muslim on that birth certificate, if there is one.
Even if you assume that osamaobama was born in Hawaii, the question is why doesn't he release it?
What is on that document that he doesn't want the citizens to see?
whoopi goldberg went ballistic the other day when the Donald axed this question, screaming that it was only because osamaobama was a {half}black girly-man.
The lefties hate it.
Trump does not ask questions he does not already have the answer to.
So he’s got the goods on Obozo, and will spring it right when it will do the most damage.
Governor of Hawaii, Democrat Neil Abercrombie promised to produce it and couldn’t.
I just want Obama out of any position of power. I want Obama and his band of traitors doing time in GITMO.
Obama’s only real hope is that the BC is found and that it shows that Obama has been lying about his father all his life. That his autobiography is based on lies. That is his only hope.
Geesh, Obozo’s head is bigger than his assumed “baby daddy”.
In fact, that doesn’t even look like Obozo.
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