A few days ago a story from 2011 popped up somewhere on my feed. Melania Trump was being inteviewed by Joy Behar (now that's even hard to imagine!) and Joy was asking her about her husband's obsession with President Obama's birth certificate.
During the interview Melania went on to echo "her husband's birther arguments nearly verbatim, denying the authenticity of the former president's certificate of live birth....The mother-of-one tends to avoid publicly denounce or support her husband's political beliefs and she told GQ in 2016, "No one will ever know"....What we do know is that she was vocally supportive of the birtherism campaign in 2011, when she asked host Joy Behar: "Do you want to see President Obama's birth certificate or no?"And she responded, "In one way, it would be very easy if President Obama just show it because it's not only Donald who wants to see it - it's American people who vote for him and who didn't vote for him."
I just dumped the article.....but it popped into my mind today after I cleaned a file in my desk drawer. I can't remember what I was looking for, but I found a xerox copy of the State of Illinois Certificate of Live Birth for our son, Todd. Our first born arrived on January 23, 1969. The form was witnessed and signed by Stanley T. Kusper, Jr. Cook County Clerk and the copy was dated March 11, 1974. I don't remember why I needed this copy, but there it was in my file.
Now I seem to remember some of the ridiculous birtherism "kerfuffle".... with then candidate 45 pompously declaring that a certificate of live birth was not the same as a birth certificate and therefore was not acceptable.
I guess I better call Todd and tell him he can never run for President of the United States.....thank my lucky stars.
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