REPORTER: You say you're taking credit for it. A lot of people say what you caused was a "distraction."
TRUMP: No, I'm taking great credit -- and you have to ask the president: Why didn't he do this a long time ago? Why didn't he do it a long time ago? When Hillary Clinton was asking, when everybody was asking, why didn't he do it?
REPORTER: Why is it relevant? Why...? Why...?
TRUMP: It's shocking.
REPORTER: Why...?
TRUMP: It's shocking.
REPORTER: You don't ask other presidents. Why is that relevant?
TRUMP: It's very relevant.
REPORTER: Have you ever asked any other president for his birth certificate?
TRUMP: People asked me for my birth certificate.
REPORTER: Have you asked any (garbled)?
"You don't ask other presidents. Why is that relevant?"
Well, because for all the other presidents, there was never any doubt in people's minds that they'd been born in the United States. Apart from the earliest Presidents whose fathers might have come from England, all Presidents were born of American stock.
Obama's father, on the other hand, was from Kenya. After his birth, Obama's mother raised him in Indonesia.
That's unusual for a President, and since Presidents are supposed to have been born in the US, seems like a simple enough question to ask to see his birth certificate. The question is not why people asked to see it, but why Obama fought tooth and nail to avoid showing it (much as he's fought tooth and nail to keep his college transcripts secret. Indeed, I'd be more intersted in seeing those transcripts than in seeing the certificate.)
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