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"Why not just crop it to the margins?'

I assume you mean the WH version. That puzzled me too. Probably because they xeroxed it to safety paper directly from the archived "original". Copies, if they handed them out, were probably scaled up. Which could explain why the AP version is so off proportionally.

Why put two out? I'm starting to think the WH version is nothing but a baited hook.

Your #299. It's more likely they were in a hurry and either forgot to flatten it or grabbed the wrong file, fatigued. Or baited hook. Or anything. I'm reasonably certain Obama didn't personally do it, tasked it to perhaps more than one, and this is what we got.

Here's it's debunked, guy says it has something to do with the optimization process. Also there is an OCR option within the Adobe software and shows how a scan will break up in layers. I didn't know any of this. Says you can get the free trial version and try it for yourself. This is where my level of expertise comes up short, freely admit it. There would be a learning curve so I'm going to opt out of that for now, would rather get a Mac version of Photoshop installed and get my own projects going again.

I'm not going to form a definite opinion at this point. Let the dust settle. The other side (maybe could have used better test documents for one of them), has a series if you click on the contributor name.

Obama PDF Explained: Absence of Chromatic Aberration is Not Proof of Forgery. -Youtube

Somebody in the comment section said it ought to be posted here. Well, I have. I'm not afraid to look at other sides of things. Obviously if there were no layered version out there, I admit I'd analyze it some, but we'd have far less to speculate about.