In our previous post below, we noted that today Donald Trump produced his birth certificate to trump President Barack Obama — as way of saying “See what I have? Why can’t you produce this, too?” without uttering those exact words. And now — from TMV’s Department of Delicious — we bring you this new twist. Trump’s birth certificate is raising questions about Donald Trump.
Which raises the question: Will Sean Hannity now spend a few minutes each day demanding to know the truth about Trump? If he runs, will a Californian go to court to demand more information? Do cows have wings? Here are the details:
Donald Trump made headlines earlier today when he provided what he said was a copy of his birth certificate — but a quick check reveals it’s actually not an official document.
Opps.
Ben Smith goes on:
But after several New York City-based readers contacted POLITICO’s Maggie Haberman, her call to city officials revealed that an actual birth certificate, which is issued by the Department of Health, would have the agency’s seal and also a signature of the city registrar – neither of which the Trump document has. Officials said the city Health Department is the “sole issuing authority” of official birth certificates in New York, and that the document would clearly say so, and “city officials said it’s not an official document.”
It appears instead to be a hospital “certificate of birth,” meaning the piece of paper the hospital gave to his family saying he was born. Such a document typically has the signature of the hospital administrator and the attending physician.
Trump lawyer and advisor Michael Cohen didn’t respond to Haberman’s question about the document.
If you were in the news business as I was for 20 years, a total non response does not look good. And news sources and lawyers know it. So it usually means something. AND:
Trump’s mother, it should be noted, was born in Scotland, which is not part of the United States. His plane is registered in the Bahamas, also a foreign country. This fact pattern — along with the wave of new questions surrounding what he claims is a birth certificate — raises serious doubts about his eligibility to serve as President of the United States.
Will Trump try to hide under his comb-over?
PREDICTION: I do expect some kind of response but don’t expect Sean Hannity to say anything about Trump on this until there is a way to do some political p.r. on the issue. He’ll just keep demanding Obama prove he was born here. Obama should say he’ll give Hannity more information to prove he was born here when Hannity gives Obama more information to prove that Hannity has an IQ.
Which brings to mind this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-wJNpWgss8
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.