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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGuardian: Donald Trump refuses to release birth certificate and passport records
The Republican presidential candidate had called
Barack Obama the countrys least transparent president
for refusing to release the same documentation
Presidential hopeful Donald Trump has refused to release his long-form birth certificate and passport records, despite demanding the same from Barack Obama during the 2012 election. The Guardian contacted the Trump campaign to request the birth certificate and passport records of the Apprentice host, but a spokeswoman refused to share the documents.
In October 2012, Trump, a prominent figure in the birther movement a loose affiliation of people who claimed Obama was born outside the US accused Obama of being the least transparent president in the history of this country for refusing to release the very details Trump is now refusing to publish.
Yet when Trumps representatives were contacted and asked to release the same documents the campaign refused to send them, despite the Guardian providing both a fax number and a full postal address. The campaign declined to comment further.
Now that Trump himself is running for president in his campaign announcement he promised to crack down on Mexico, who he accused of sending rapists to the US the refusal to release these documents could be seen as hypocritical. If Trump were to win the presidency in November 2016, without publishing the documentation, then he would by his own definition join Obama as being the least transparent president in the history of this country.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/26/donald-trump-refuses-release-birth-certificate-passport-records
How stupid is Trump? Or is he playing multi-dimensional chess? The former seems much more likely than the latter.
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Guardian: Donald Trump refuses to release birth certificate and passport records (Original Post)
pampango
Jun 2015
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marmar
(77,091 posts)1. Because it would prove ....................
That he's really one of those Men in Black aliens wearing a (bad) human skin.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)2. Trump is digging a multi-dimensional hole in the ground
where he thinks he'll bury his shame.
The only thing worthy of interest in his campaign is the press' pool on when it will cave in.
vankuria
(904 posts)5. After he's asked to produce financial records
the whole campaign will cave...I give it another 30-60 days.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)3. Then we can only assume that he is a fugitive Nazi financier.
That would make him somewhere between 105 and 175 years old.
Which also means he's a vampire and could be centuries older.
I knew Von Clownstick sounded foreign!
Gothmog
(145,595 posts)4. Bill Maher may be rights about Donald's ancestor
malaise
(269,182 posts)6. Word is that he has also not released the
RUG - it's stuck.
Spazito
(50,482 posts)7. I think they should have asked for the quarantine records on that thing sitting on his head...
without them, how do we know the mind-bending stupidity exhibited by Trump isn't spread by that alien thing?