Trump Charge: Obama Attended School As A Foreign Student

Donald Trump challenged President Barack Obama to release his college and passport records and in exchange he promised to contribute $5 million to the charity of his choice. Trump gave Obama until today to produce the records. Now that Obama has declined to take him up on his offer, Trump is charging that he won't release the records because they will reveal that he attended American schools as a foreign student. Trump said in a press release today that Obama will not release the records because they are "very bad." "Obviously, he wasn't born in this country, or if he was, he said he wasn't in order to receive financial aid and a very easy path into a college or university," Trump said. "Only a very stupid person would believe otherwise," Trump added. Trump said Obama's election as a U.S. President "will go down as the greatest con in American politics, or perhaps, the greatest con of all time."

Trump did not produce any evidence to back up his claims; however, Obama has steadfastly withheld from the American people the fact that he was adopted by his Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, that his name was legally changed to "Barry Soetoro" and that he became a citizen of Indonesia, after his mother Stanley Ann Dunham married Soetoro. These facts were uncovered by conservative bloggers during the 2008 presidential election but were ignored by the mainstream media. Obama may have been born in Hawaii, but his reputed father, Barack Obama of Kenya, never lived with Obama's mother as her husband, despite their reported marriage in Hawaii before Obama, Sr., a foreign student, left Hawaii to attend Harvard. His mother began attending classes at the University of Washington in Seattle within weeks of the date Obama was reportedly born in Hawaii. She and her son did not return to Hawaii until after Obama, Sr. had left the state to study at Harvard.

Investigators who have searched for evidence of Obama's birth in Hawaii have come to the conclusion that Obama, Sr. was not identified on Obama's original birth certificate as his father, and that it was changed when he was adopted by his stepfather. The long-form birth certificate released by Obama last year is a bad forgery. Records released by the INS revealed that American immigration officials had doubts that Obama had a bona fide marriage with Dunham. Obama, Sr. listed young Obama as his son on some of his applications with the INS, while he left him off on other applications he filed. The name of his father on his original birth certificate was likely left blank. Claims that a birth announcement that ran in two local newspapers in Honolulu identifying him as the son of Obama, Sr. are based on microfiche records of the newspapers, which some speculate were altered many years later to make it appear that a birth announcement that was never published in the newspapers appeared at the time of his birth. Documentary film producer Joel Gilbert claims in his latest production, "Dreams From My Real Father," that Obama's real birth father is Frank Marshall Davis, with whom Obama bears a family resemblance unlike the short-statured Obama from Kenya. Davis was close friends of Obama's grandfather, and nude photographs of Obama's mother taken by Davis were unearthed by Gilbert during the research for his documentary. Davis was married to a white woman from Chicago at the time of Obama's birth, and had a son and daughter close to Obama's age, both of whom look remarkably like Obama. Davis wrote in his book about having sex with an underage girl who went by the name "Ann."

Trump Wisely Passes On White House Bid

If there had ever been any time in his life when he needed to think about himself rather than his country, this was the time. Donald Trump wisely announced he won't be seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. From ABC News:

After a roller-coaster flirtation with a presidential bid, Donald Trump bowed out of the 2012 contest in true Trump fashion on Monday, saying that while he would not be a candidate this year, if he had run, he would have been able to win the primary and the general election.

"I maintain the strong conviction that if I were to run, I would be able to win the primary and ultimately, the general election," Trump said in a statement on Monday. "I have spent the past several months unofficially campaigning and recognize that running for public office cannot be done half heartedly. Ultimately, however, business is my greatest passion and I am not ready to leave the private sector."

Trump, who had contemplated running for president in years past, seemed poised take the plunge this year. He even had a tentative date set for a campaign announcement: May 25 in the atrium of Trump Tower in New York City.

According to Trump aides, the real estate mogul and reality television mogul had even settled on campaign consultants to help steer his potential presidential bid. Trump had already made two visits to New Hampshire within the last month and had a series of events planned in that state and in Iowa over the next few weeks.

"This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican contenders in polls across the country," Trump said in the statement. "I have spent the past several months unofficially campaigning and recognize that running for public office cannot be done half heartedly."

ABC goes on to speculate in their online story that the lucrative contract Trump had with NBC for his "Apprentice" TV show had more to do with his decision to forego a presidential bid than anything else. The fact of the matter was Trump realized the Omedia was digging into every financial transaction he had ever made, Obama-friendly attorneys were readying lawsuits against his real estate ventures and every other aspect of his personal life was being looked at by Obama's opposition research operation in Chicago and Omedia loyalists. In short, Donald Trump would have been professionally destroyed and facing personal bankruptcy if he had challenged Obama. His departure from the race means there is no Republican candidate in the field who will hit the phony Obama narrative head on, which is precisely what the Obama campaign and Omedia set out to accomplish when Trump dared to raise the questions everyone else is too afraid to address that deeply troubles a large segment of the American electorate.

Trump Bails As Pace Car Driver For Indy 500

This is no doubt a face-saving move after being informed by IMS officials they couldn't stand the heat and decided to dump Trump as the honorary pace car driver for the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500:

Donald Trump is no longer this month’s Indianapolis 500 pace car driver.


The controversial host of NBC’s reality show, “The Apprentice,” told Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials that continuing with the program conflicts with his possible presidential campaign.

“I very much appreciate the honor, but time and business constraints make my appearance there, especially with the necessary practice sessions, impossible to fulfill,” Trump said. “I look forward to watching the race from New York.”

“Donald Trump has been very enthusiastic about the ‘500’ from the beginning of our conversations, and I have appreciated the interaction we have had with him and his staff,” Speedway president Jeff Belskus said. “From my first conversation, I was impressed by his deep understanding of the event and history, and I thank him for being a true fan.”

No replacement for the May 29 race has been selected, although fans hope it’s a former 500 winner. The pace car is a Chevrolet Camaro.

This is a pretty sad commentary when the Obama Nation crowd can block Rush Limbaugh from owning an interest in an NFL team or prevent Donald Trump from driving the pace car at an event that is 100% funded through the private resources of the Hulman-George family because they disagree with their political views. We now officially live in a dictatorship. This country is going straight to hell. Nobody complained when the Speedway officials had Colin Powell drive the pace car when he was considering a presidential run several years ago, but he wasn't posing a challenge to The One. Everyone who stands up to this incompetent, illegitimate president must be smeared as a racist. Maybe the family can bring back last year's guest, Internet porn slut Kim Kardashian, to take Trump's place. Maybe I'll tear up my tickets to this year's event and never return to the Speedway again.

UPDATE: The Speedway's spokesperson, who incidentally had to find a job working for the IMS because the race team he co-owned went bankrupt, a sign of the future for the Speedway, confirms Trump was pushed out:

"You have somebody like Donald Trump, who is controversial without being a political candidate, and the fact that he's really talking about running for president was something that bothered our fans a little bit," Boles said.

Trump was only controversial because he challenged Obama in a way every other politician in this country is too spineless to do. The race-baiting Amos Brown, who has never been a supporter of the Speedway because there are no black drivers (ergo, the Speedway is racist), was jubilant.

 "I am very pleased that Hoosier common sense prevailed and that Donald Trump is busy with other things," said Indianapolis radio host Amos Brown. "Mr. Trump recognized the importance of what the 500 has always stood for and that partisan politics has never been a part of the race."

Yeah, right. Amos was concerned about partisanship when Colin Powell used the honor to promote a potential presidential bid himself that went nowhere when Republicans finally figured out he wasn't a real Republican. When the Speedway starts worrying about what the city's biggest white-hating black man who doesn't hide his admiration for the anti-Semitic Rev. Louis Farrakhan thinks about how it conducts its business, its future is in question. Note to Speedway: Amos' audience isn't your audience. Hello? Is anyone listening?

Let's review what has happened this past week. Trump's bold pressuring of Obama on his refusal to release his birth certificate and other records is resonating with the American voters. The same day newly-released government records are made public that prove Barry's biographical narrative is made up fantasy he produces a long-form birth certificate he has spent millions blocking the release of for the past three years, which turns out to be a bad forgery. The White House Press Correspondents Dinner last weekend turned into a roast of Donald Trump instead of the President. The next day, Barry times his announcement to interrupt the regularly-scheduled broadcast of Trump's Celebrity Apprentice to announce that bin Laden has been captured and executed by U.S. special forces. Yesterday, the Speedway dumps Trump as the honorary pace car driver. Yesterday, he goes to Ground Zero for a photo op with the 9/11 victims, who are convinced he is simply using them as a campaign prop. Today, the President comes to town to promote alternative fuel uses at Allison's westside facility to help restore his failing public opinion numbers in a state that proved critical to his 2008 election win. Tell me this wasn't all scripted by a Hollywood movie producer instead of a President sincerely interested in serving the interests of the people he was elected to serve.

More Media Misrepresentation On Presidential Eligibility Legislation

The Star has a lengthy story from the AP discussing the continued doubts many Americans have about Obama's natural born status and asking why "it's the conspiracy theory that won't go away." You need look no further than an item the Star originated in its "Behind Closed Doors" column this weekend that blatantly misrepresents legislation Sen. Mike Delph and Sen. Sue Landske have asked that a summer study committee look at to determine whether Indiana should enact a law that requires all presidential candidates to furnish evidence they meet the eligibility requirements set out in the U.S. Constitution to be president.

Now, Delph wants the legislature to assign a summer study committee to explore whether Indiana should require candidates to prove they are citizens--a proposal Democrats find absurd and an untrue, unfair attack on Obama.

Presumbably, Mary Beth Schneider, the Star's State House reporter, is the person who contributed this false information to this item in the column because she was the only reporter for the newspaper in attendance at this week's hearing on the resolution. If Schneider bothered to read Delph's legislation, SB 114, or had bothered to listen to the testimony at the hearing, she would know that her reporting was patently false. In addition, I spent considerable time discussing the legislation with her earlier in the session that should have cleared up any misapprehensions she had about it. As with all of the mainstream reporters who have covered this issue to date, Schneider is not interested in the truth; rather, she is simply interested in casting aspersions at anyone who raises legitimate constitutional questions about the process for electing persons to the most important elected office in the free world.

The purpose of requiring a candidate to provide a birth certificate is not to prove he or she is a citizen as she falsey writes in the item, but rather to establish that they meet the age requirement and the natural born citizenship requirement, which the constitution specifically requires. We already know presidential candidates are citizens by virtue of them being participants in the political process as registered voters. I also furnished to Schneider proof that the Democratic Party refused to affirm that Obama met the constitutional eligibility requirements when it filed its nominating certificate with the Indiana Elections Division in 2008, unlike the certificate of nomination the Republican Party filed for John McCain. Of course, Schneider won't report that fact. Instead, she used the item to poke additional fun at Donald Trump calling Delph to offer his support for his efforts. "Trump--yes, THAT Donald Trump, the one with the hair, the bank account and the TV show . . . the most famous 'birther,'" she writes. She throws in a dissing quip from Mitch Daniels, who also jumps on the trash the birthers bandwagon with this: "I'm one of the few people in America who can honestly claim to have said, 'Donald, you're fired." Let's see, Mitch, didn't you tell the American people when you were Bush's budget director that the war in Iraq was only going to cost the American taxpayers $50 billion? Yeah, that's what I thought.

Yes, this is why the American people have doubts about who President Obama is. They have been repeatedly lied to on so many fronts about his biographical narrative not only by Obama, but also by his deceiving allies in the American news media, that they don't know what to believe about him anymore. They want you to believe this issue is all about Obama when it knows full well that McCain similarly faced lawsuits and challenges over his natural born status because he was born in Panama where his father was stationed on a naval base. Sen. Richard Bray also pointed out during the hearing at which Schneider was present his vivid recollection of George Romney's natural born citizenship being challenged in 1968 because of his birth to U.S. citizen parents who were living in Mexico at the time of his birth. Perhaps if the media wants the "conspiracy theories" to go away, it should begin by leveling with the American people candidly about who this man is and what his policies actually are and honestly report on the ideas any other person offers that runs counter to his views instead of the non-stop marketing pieces fit for those charlatans who produce those half-hour infomercial ads that run on late-night TV.

UPDATE: Senate Republicans chickened out under pressure from the same elitist and moral supremacist thinking that has destroyed this country. Sen. James Merritt (R-Indianapolis) and Sen. Tom Wyss (R-Ft. Wayne) skipped out on the hearing to vote on the resolution this morning, along with the Senate Democrats who claim the only motive behind the resolution is racism against a black president, in order to ensure no vote could be taken and no summer study committee could be established. They will show up to vote to cut corporate taxes, force consumers to pay for a farcical new coal gasification plant that will enrich pay-to-play contributors at the cost of residential ratepayers and allow the robber barons to take your land by eminent domain to build their pipeline over your farmland and property. Great leadership.

Trump Busy Making Phone Calls To Show He's Serious About Running For President

Two people with absolutely no connection to one another received phone calls yesterday from Donald Trump. Sen. Mike Delph tells me Trump called him yesterday and spoke to him briefly to offer words of encouragement on his legislative efforts in Indiana to enact legislation requiring all presidential candidates to produce their birth certificates. While Delph's legislation did not receive a hearing this year, the Senate is considering a resolution he and Sen. Sue Landske are co-authoring which urges the legislature to study the issue in a summer study committee this year.

Trump has come under fire by the media for pressing the issue of Obama's natural born citizenship status, a constitutional requirement for being president. Trump, who has produced his own long-form birth certificate showing his birth in a New York hospital, has said he initially believed Obama's claim that he was born in Hawaii but his doubts have grown because of the President's reluctance to produce his long-form birth certificate. Obama's campaign, instead, produced a certificate of live birth issued in 2007 to prove his birth in Hawaii. Critics note Hawaii law permits parents to record their child's birth with Hawaii's Department of Health even if the child's birth took place outside of the state. Trump has reportedly spoken to lawmakers in other states, including Arizona, about state legislative efforts to require presidential candidates to file proof to establish they meet the 35-year age requirement, are natural born citizens and have resided in the U.S for at least 14 years, the three requirements set out in the U.S. Constitution.

Trump has told reporters during interviews recently that he has people investigating Obama's background and can't believe what they are learning. Some believe Trump may have been privy to the contents of a new book to be released by Dr. Jerome Corsi next month, "Where's The Birth Certificate." Pre-release sales of the book soared after the Drudge Report teased readers with claims from a source that new information in the book would prove to be "utterly devastating."

Trump also took time to call columnist and Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer, who mocked Trump's candidacy by calling him a "clown" and a "provocateur." Krauthammer recounted his phone conversation with Trump on Fox News' Bret Baier's show yesterday, which he said now leaves him convinced Trump is serious about running for president:

It was a surprise, and when my secretary told me, I put on a helmet and a flak jacket as I answered the phone. I expected a tirade, which he had every right to do given what I have been saying about him. In fact, he was courteous but very calm, and he made his case, rather than sort of attacking everything I said about him. Simply, he made his case: “I’m a serious businessman, I’m a serious candidate"...I give him credit for the way he conducted himself [on the phone call].

In a column this week, Krauthammer rated Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Tim Pawlenty, Haley Barbour and Mitch Daniels as the only serious candidates running on the Republican side. He gave Romney the best shot of winning at this early point as "the prohibitive front-runner" with 5-1 odds of winning. On a Daniels' candidacy, Krauthammer wrote:

Highly successful governor. Budget guru. Delightful dullness satisfies all axioms (see above). Foreign policy unknown, assuming he has one. Alienated some conservatives with his call for a truce on — i.e., deferring — social issues. If he runs, 6-1.

Krauthammer thinks Pawlenty, however, may turn out to be "the last man standing." Krauthammer says he doesn't believe either Mike Huckabee or Sarah Palin will end up running for president.

Australian Gold Meets The Celebrity Apprentice

Steve and Tomisue Hilbert struck gold tonight as Donald Trump's The Celebrity Apprentice cast members were tasked with putting together a public marketing event for Australian Gold's sun tanning lotion products. The Hilberts, who Trump describes as close friends, both appeared on the show tonight to tell the competing celebrity teams about the Austrailian Gold brand that is manufactured and marketed by their Indianapolis-based company. "Live the Gold Life" and their trademark Sydney the koala bear were emphasized by the Hilberts as critical to their marketing strategy.

The men's team led by Mark McGrath let the Hilberts down by failing to include Sydney or their "Live the Gold Life" motto in their pirate-themed event, although they thought they generated better buzz for their event. They didn't see the pirate theme as consistent with their marketing efforts. They were also turned off at Gary Busey's in-your-face effort to sell himself as a spokesman for their product. The women's team was led by LaToya Jackson, who complained her fellow team members were ostracizing her. The Hilberts were disappointed the women failed to utilize Playmate of the Year Hope Dworaczyk in a visible way, but they liked that they utilized the company's motto and mascot prominently with their event. In short, they thought the women were better at messaging their product.

Trump sided with the Hilberts and chose the women's presentation as this week's winner. The men agreed Busey  was a problem every week that had to be worked around and needed to go, but McGrath backed himself into a corner by saying ahead of time that he should take the fall as the team's leader if his team lost this week. I got a big kick out of Meatloaf and the other men thinking Tomisue was offended when Busey said during the men's team's meeting with the Hilberts that the product made him feel sexual. Busey denied he made the comment but the camera doesn't lie. Apparently they didn't know she met Steve while jumping out of a cake at his step-son's birthday party many years ago. In the end, Trump decided to fire McGrath, but he warned Busey he had better shape up. The Hilberts aren't saying how much they had to pay Trump to get their product showcased on this week's show. The show has about 8.5 million weekly viewers.

Trump Dispatches Investigators To Hawaii To Look Into Obama's Origins

Whatever becomes of his presidential ambitions, one thing for sure is that Donald Trump is doing more to make the issue of Barack Hussein Obama's constitutional eligibility a central issue of his presidency than anyone else who has been smeared and tarnished for asking the basic questions of this mysterious man who came from nowhere to become the leader of the free world. Trump has now dispatched a team of investigators to the state of Hawaii to learn more about Obama's origins. CNN reports on Trump's quest for the truth and what could become the biggest fraud in American political history:

Self-proclaimed birther Donald Trump is now so doubtful of President Obama's birthplace that he's sent a team of his own investigators to Hawaii in hopes of getting to the bottom of the issue.


That's according to Trump himself, who, in an interview with NBC, warned his investigators just might uncover "one of the greatest cons in the history of politics and beyond."

"I have people that have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding," Trump said an interview that aired Thursday Morning.

Asked if he has assigned people specifically to search in Hawaii, Trump said, "Absolutely."

The business mogul, who in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll is tied for second place among potential presidential candidates, also suggested the president is involved in an ongoing cover-up over the matter.

"He spent $2 million in legal fees trying on to get away from this issue, and if it weren't an issue, why wouldn't he just solve it?" he said. "I wish he would because if he doesn't, it's one of the greatest scams in the history of politics and in the history, period. You are not allowed to be a president if you're not born in this country. Right now, I have real doubts."

Those of us who have searched for the truth of this matter have been totally pilloried by the mainstream media and people on the Left and Right who are either ignorant of what the constitution says about persons eligible to be president, or who simply don't want to know the truth. It would have seemed incomprehensible to me prior to the 2008 presidential election that a man about whom so little was known could spoon feed a fabricated biographical narrative ghostwritten by a reputed terrorist, photo-shopped family photos and a birth certificate of questionable origins and skip right into the White House while other candidates found every last rock of their personal lives turned over to tear down their images in the eyes of the American people.

I hope Trump's investigators spend some time interviewing Tim Adams, a former Democratic elections supervisor in Honolulu who contends there is no Hawaii birth certificate documenting Obama's birth in the state, although Adams still believes Obama is eligible to serve because his mother was an American citizen. Here's what Adams said during a recent BlogTalkRadio interview on the subject:

"I think people believe there's been some kind of cover-up. And I don't think it's some big nefarious conspiracy. I think it's politics as usual," Adams said March 31 on Reality Check Radio, an Internet program on BlogTalkRadio.


"Barack Obama's official autobiography was put out to the public for the public's consumption and we all know politicians – they have a public persona, it's created for consumption by the electorate – and I think that they've been caught fibbing, and it's embarrassing."

But Adams, who described himself as "pretty much a liberal" who backed Hillary Clinton in the campaign, thinks the president should produce a long-form birth certificate if he has one, even if it contains information that does not go along with the narrative proffered so far by Obama and his surrogates.


"I think as much trauma as all this has caused," Adams said, "I think if Barack Obama has lied about where he was born or if there's something about his birth that he doesn't want people to publicly know, if he would come out and simply say something like that, I think most people would go, 'Oh, OK,' and they would go on about their business 'cause they've got a thousand more important things to do." . . .

The radio hosts suggested that Janice Okubo, the public information officer for the state health department had previously vouched for the authenticity of the COLB, though in reality she has refused to do so. But Adams maintained the online scanned image is fraudulent.


Adams was asked, "So you're calling Janice Okubo a liar?"

"Yes," Adams responded, "if she's saying that that document that is sitting out there on the Internet is an actual document because we can prove it's not in about 30 seconds. Because it's altered."

"I happen to be a trained document researcher, by the way," Adams continued, "and have worked with the Hawaii Historical Association and have worked in the state archives. So I do know what a document is."


Adams says he even offered the current Democratic governor of the state, Neil Abercrombie, his personal assistance to help verify any long-form birth certificate if it were ever produced.

"Governor Abercrombie said that he was afraid that even if they managed to bring out the original birth certificate or a copy of the original birth certificate, there would still be people who would say, 'Oh, it's a forgery, oh, it's a fake,' whatever. I told him that if he wanted help convincing people it was real, I would be happy to do so. If he actually had the birth certificate. I got nothing back from the man."

Adams insists the only thing contained in Hawaii records on Obama's birth  is "an archive notation." There is no Hawaiian long-form birth certificate for Obama he maintains. Hawaii law permits a parent to register a child's birth based on his or her residence in the state regardless of the birthplace of the child.  "The fact is, we've had one person all along who could simply end this, who supposedly has the document in his possession, and that's President Obama," said Adams. "He could end this. I really wish he would."

UPDATE: Just for fun, I'm showing a blatant example below of how Axelrod & Co. photoshopped family photos to use in his presidential campaign:

Fake photo used by campaign showing Barry with his white grandparents

There are more examples of photoshopping here.

Donald Trump To Drive 500 Pace Car

Donald Trump, Photo by Getty Images

It's now official. Donald Trump will lead the field of 33 Indy car drivers to the first green lap as the Pace Car driver for the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500. The 2011 Chevy Camaro convertible has been chosen as the official Pace Car. “It’s a great honor to be selected as the Pace Car driver for such an American institution as the 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis 500,” Trump said in a news release from the speedway. “The Indianapolis 500 has been the gold standard of motorsports for a century, and I can’t wait to get behind the wheel of the Camaro and bring the famous field of 33 drivers to the green flag.”

The Speedway's decision to select Trump for this coveted honor in Gov. Mitch Daniels' backyard must have the Daniels' camp seething. Trump has indicated his inclination to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. He could draw money and supporters from a potential Daniels' presidential bid. Today's announcement comes on the heels of a new poll released for the nation's first primary election, New Hampshire, which shows Trump soaring ahead of all of his potential Republican rivals, except for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who had been expected to win the state in 2008 before John McCain pulled a big upset win over him. A Public Policy Polling poll shows Trump tailing Romney by only 6 points, 27 percent to 21 percent. Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee trailed far behind, tied for 12 percent each. All other contenders polled in single digits. 

Donald Trump Will Run For President

Fox News contributor Bernard Goldberg tells Bill O'Reilly on the "O'Reilly Factor" tonight that a source very close to Donald Trump tells him that he has made up his mind and, "barring unforeseen circumstances," will seek the 2012 presidential nomination. That's music to my ears, even if it won't be to the news media and the GOP establishment. I think the current crop of Republican presidential candidates are so tepid and weak on the issues that have so many people concerned with the direction and leadership of this country or saying anything that will offend the O Media that none of them stand a chance of defeating Obama, who just announced today his plan to run for re-election. Whether it's our trade policies, monetary and banking policies, foreign policies or the critical issue of Obama's constitutional eligibility to even hold the office, Trump stands alone as the candidate willing to stake out the positions and directions this country must take if it has any hope of survival. There are things about Trump's personality that are not to my personal liking, but if he at least forces the Republican Party to get serious about offering a real alternative to Obama and the liberal Democrats in Congress, his candidacy will do a great service to not only the Republican Party but our country as well. Trump has suggested he would spend up to $600 million of his own money if he runs for president. You can bet none of the other Republican candidates will come close to matching that kind of money if he is really serious about spending that much money.

Retired Air Force Officer May Be Prosecuted For Attempting To Prove Obama Fraud



Retired Air Force Col. Gregory Hollister

 Shortly after the 2008 election, fellow blogger Debbie Schlussel published a bombshell report claiming that Barack Hussein Obama's Selective Service registration record had been forged. Although the report was ignored by the mainstream media, the story became part of a growing number of conspiracies surrounding a potential fraud of unparalleled proportions in American political history--namely, that Obama lied on several fronts about his personal biography, including his natural born status, to win the presidency. Now a retired air force officer stands accused of illegally accessing Obama's Selective Service records by using a social security number allegedly used by Obama in order to gain access to his records in an effort to prove his Hawaiian birth claim is a fraud. Records obtained by Retired Air Force Col. Gregory Hollister were filed in an amended complaint filed by controversial birther lawyer Orly Taitz in a D.C. federal court last week. Denver's ABC 7 News reports on the hot water Taitz filing with the court has landed Hollister:

A Colorado Springs man who claims to have records that proves Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate was forged could face criminal charges because he is alleged to have illegally accessed an online Social Security database.


Retired Air Force Col. Gregory Hollister impersonated Obama with the Selective Service and managed to get a card with President Obama’s Selective Service information on it, a blogger posted on gratewire.com last week.

Hollister told the Colorado Springs Gazette that a private investigator gave him what is purported to be the president’s Social Security number and he then accessed the Social Security Number Verification Service to find out to whom it was issued and to access Selective Service documents
 
The site allows registered users to verify names and Social Security numbers for employment purposes and warns that using it under false pretenses is a violation of federal law . . .

Schlussel's original report set the wheels in motion that led to Hollister's claimed discovery. Schlussel, with the assistance of a retired federal official, discovered the discrepancy in Obama's Selective Service registration, which suggested the record had been created a short time prior to the 2008 presidential election instead of June, 1979 when he was required by federal law to register. Schlussel wrote in November, 2008 of some of the findings she and a retired federal official had made after reviewing Obama's registration records obtained through a FOIA request:

The official campaign for President may be over. But Barack Obama’s Selective Service registration card and accompanying documents show that questions about him are not only NOT over, but if the signature on the document is in fact his, our next Commander-in-Chief may have committed a federal crime in 2008, well within the statute of limitations on the matter. If it is not his, then it’s proof positive that our next Commander-in-Chief never registered with the Selective Service as required by law. By law, he was required to register and was legally able to do so until the age of 26.


But the Selective Service System registration (“SSS Form 1″) and accompanying computer print-out (“SSS Print-out), below, released by the Selective Service show the following oddities and irregularities, all of which indicate the document was created in 2008 and backdated . . . .
 
First, there is the Document Location Number (DLN) on the form. In the upper right hand corner of the Selective Service form SSS Form 1, there is the standard Bates-stamped DLN, in this case “0897080632,” which I’ve labeled as “A” on both the SSS Form and the computer printout document. On the form, it reflects a 2008 creation, but on the printout, an extra eight was added in front of the number to make it look like it is from 1980, when it was actually created in 2008 . . . .
 
And guess where the Selective Service registrations are marked and recorded? Lucky for Obama, it’s his native Chicago . . .
 
Barack H. Obama signed the SSS Form 1′s “Today’s date” as July 30, 1980, labeled “D“. But the Postal Stamp reflects the PREVIOUS day’s date of July 29, 1980, labeled “E“. Yes, Obama could have mistakenly written the wrong date, but it is rare and much more unlikely for someone to put a future date than a past date . . .
 
Then, there is the question as to whether the Postal Stamp is real. The “postmark” stamp–labeled “E“–is hard to read, but it is clear that at the bottom is “USPO” which stands typically for United States Post Office. However, current “postmark” validator, registry, or round dater stamps (item 570 per the Postal Operations Manual) shows “USPS” for United States Postal Service. The change from Post Office to Postal Service occurred on August 12, 1970, when President Nixon signed into law the most comprehensive postal legislation since the founding of the Republic–Public Law 91-375. The new Postal Service officially began operations on July 1, 1971.


Why was an old, obsolete postmark round dater stamp used almost ten (10) years after the fact to validate a legal document . . . that just happened to be Barack Obama’s suspicious Selective Service registration form?

After Schlussel's report was published, there have been a number of Internet news reports claiming that private detectives had determined Obama had used a social security number to register for the Selective Service System that had actually been issued to a deceased man from Connecticut born in 1890. Social security numbers are never reissued even after a person is no longer living according to the Social Security Administration. Hollister used the social security number a private investigator claimed had been used by Obama to access Obama's Selective Service records. In fact, anyone could go to the Selective Service System's online database, enter their social security number and access the record in question. I verified my own Selective Service record in this fashion. Hollister apparently went a step further and obtained a verification that the social security number was issued to Obama from the Social Security Administration and used the social security number to have his Selective Service registration record mailed to him at his address in Colorado Springs--in effect impersonating Obama--to prove he was using a phony social security number. Taitz filed a copy of the document Hollister obtained with her court filing last week, which you can view here. It seems rather strange that someone would be capable of obtaining a document involving the President of the United States by means of identity theft.

Taitz has run afoul of federal court rules in the past with her numerous court filings concerning lawsuits she has filed seeking to have Obama deemed ineligible to serve as president because he is not a natural born citizen as required by the U.S. Constitution. In at least one instance, she has been sanctioned with fines by a federal judge. Taitz looked particularly foolish in one of her cases when she offered what turned out to be a forged birth certificate claiming that Obama was born in his father's native country, Kenya, rather than the state of Hawaii as he has always claimed. Constitutional scholars agree that a person must be born within the United States in order to be a natural born citizens, but some also argue that a person must be born of U.S. citizen parents. Obama's father was a British citizen when he was born because Kenya was still a possession of the British empire at the time of his birth in 1960. That made Obama a dual citizen at birth. Some constitutional scholars believe only persons owing no allegiance to another government at the time of their birth can qualify as natural born citizens. The issue has never been decided by the federal courts.

Real estate mogul Donald Trump, who has dangled the possibility of running for president as a Republican in 2012, recently reignited the debate over Obama's NBC status when he challenged him to release his birth certificate. Trump even released his own birth certificate showing his birth at Jamaica Hospital in New York. Some Obama apologists in the media, who have dismissed the questions about Obama's NBC status as just a conspiracy concocted by "birthers" as they derisively call them, questioned Trump's NBC status because his mother was born in Scotland. His mother became a naturalized citizen after she married Trump's father and prior to his birth.

Trump has dismissed the Certification of Live Birth the Obama campaign furnished to Factcheck.org during the 2008 presidential campaign to prove his birth in Hawaii because it was not the original long-form birth certificate generated at his birth. Critics point out that a person can actually obtain a COLB from the state of Hawaii based on affirmations filed by a child's parents near the time of the child's birth without establishing the child was actually born in the state. Further clouding the issue is the existence of evidence Obama was actually adopted by his Indonesian step-father, Lolo Soetoro, and renamed "Barry Soetoro." His Indonesian school records confirm that Lolo was identified as his father, his name had been changed and his citizenship identified as Indonesian, not American. Typically, a new birth certificate is issued when a child is adopted to reflect the identity of his adopted parent and name change. It is unclear why Hawaii records would show Obama's name on his COLB as "Barack Hussein Obama II" and list "Barack Hussein Obama" as his father if he was in fact adopted by Soetoro. Trump has hinted to reporters he believes Obama has his original birth certificate but is hiding it because of something it shows that doesn't comport with his biographical narrative.

This strange episode surrounding the social security number allegedly used by Obama and the authenticity of his Selective Service record is one of many troubling issues with a man who was never vetted by the news media as other presidential candidates have been. Lest we forget the strange happenings when employees of a firm contracted by the State Department accessed Obama's passport file during the 2008 presidential election. It turned out the employees worked for a company run by John Brennan, who Obama later appointed as his top terrorism and intelligence officer at the National Security Agency. According to a Newsmax report, the unauthorized access of Obama's passport file was carried out in order to "cauterize" potentially damaging information about Obama. The Washington Times lated reported that a key witness in the investigation of the passport file breach case was murdered in Washington, D.C. "A key witness in a federal probe into passport information stolen from the State Department was fatally shot in front of a District church, the Metropolitan Police Department said yesterday." "Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, who had been cooperating with federal investigators, was found late Thursday night slumped dead inside a car, in front of the Judah House Praise Baptist Church in Northeast, said Cmdr. Michael Anzallo, head of the department’s Criminal Investigations Division," the Washington Times reported.

UPDATE: Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, who has been on the birther bashing bandwagon for some time, went after Donald Trump on his show tonight where he appeared as a guest for raising the issue of Obama's NBC status. Here's the exchange as reported by Politico:

O'Reilly, who faced a walk-off from the ladies of "The View" in a recent appearance, noted that Trump mixed it up with host Whoopi Goldberg over the debunked questions about whether the president was born in the U.S.

"That was worse than what I did," said O'Reilly, who's pushed back hard on the "birther" arguments in the past after looking into it himself.

"We very early on did an investigation into Barack Obama's birth certificate," O'Reilly said, noting that his team had turned up two Obama birth announcements in local Hawaiian newspapers, "[So] I just dismissed it but you made a big deal out of it."

Trump said of the birth announcements: "I grew up with Wall Street geniuses. What they do in terms of fraud, and how they change documents — and I'll tell you something, if you notice, those dates were three days later. And here's what I ask people — who puts announcements? [Here's] two poor people, a man and a woman with no money, they have a baby. There's announcements in the newspaper? ... Nelson Rockefeller doesn't put announcements in. I've never seen one."

"They're common," said O'Reilly to Trump, interrupting him.

Noting that he'd provided his birth certificate, saying reporters said "the one I gave [originally] wasn't good enough," Trump added, "I have a birth certificate. I have my birth certificate. ... People have birth certificates. He doesn't have a birth certificate. Now, he may have one but there is something on that birth certificate — maybe religion, maybe it says he's a Muslim, I don't know. Maybe he doesn't want that. Or, he may not have one.

"But I will tell you this," Trump added. "If he wasn't born in this country it's one of the great scams of all time."

"Absolutely," O'Reilly replied, but he added, "But I don't think that's the case. ... I don't think you believe that either. You get a lot of attention raising the question."

Trump insisted, "Two weeks ago I felt like probably he was born in the country. Today it's possibly. I'm telling you, it's changed. I've seen too many things."

I like how Trump played the hide and seek game the Obama people have been playing to his credit. He produced to Newsmax both a commemorative birth certificate issued to his parents by the hospital where he was born and the official birth certificate filed with the New York City Public Health Department. Newsmax showed the commemorative birth certificate in its original report, which brought quick attacks from Politico's Ben Smith, who was outed as one of the JouralOlists carrying water for Obama's disinformation campaign in 2008, for producing an unofficial birth certificate. Newsmax obliged the complaining Smith and other apoplectic reporters on the Left with the official birth certificate. Naturally, they then focused on the fact that Trump's mother, a naturalized citizen, was born in Scotland and not the U.S. Trumps' point on the birth announcement in the Honolulu newspaper serving as no proof of the place of his birth is spot on, but his suggestion that families don't have birth announcements placed in newspapers is way off base. Families all the time have birth announcements of family members placed in their local newspapers regardless of the child's place of birth.

UPDATE II: The Colorado Springs Gazette has a story on Hollister accessing the records here. In this story, he insists he did not break any laws. He claims he sent a 1099 tax form to Obama. “I was very meticulous and made sure everything I did was compliant with the law,” Hollister said, noting that he sent Obama an 1099 tax form. "A 1099 is an IRS income reporting form for independent contractors and free-lancers, the Gazette reported. "Hollister did not explain how sending that to Obama complies with federal laws on the use of Social Security data." Very strange.

Donald Trump Debates The View Hags Over Obama's Natural Born Status

Donald Trump engaged in a spirited debate with The View hags today, insisting President Barack Obama should produce his original birth certificate if he wants to put the issue of his constitutional eligibility to hold the office of President of the United States to bed. Trump said he believes there is something on the birth certificate Obama does not want the American people to see or else he would have produced it long ago. Like I've said before, I had to produce my birth certificate to get my driver's license, to get a passport and multiple other occasions during my life. It is astounding that this man could ascend to the highest office in our country, decide on his own to send our troops to war and yet some people like Whoopi Goldberg can only say you're a racist to even raise the issue. Goldberg foolishly claims Bush didn't have to produce his birth certificate, ignoring the fact that the Bush family traces its ancestors to the some of the earliest arrivals to this country from Europe who sailed on the Mayflower, and both he and his father served in the military where they had to document their status. Not Barry. No, the rules that apply to you and I don't apply to Barry.

Trump Sides With Birthers

Donald Trump continues to talk up a potential presidential run in 2012. He says he is prepared to spend $600 million of his own money if he decides to run. I find it hard to believe he would have that much money to spare, but he does like talking a lot about his money. I don't think he'll run; rather he's just using it as a way to promote his brand and TV show, The Apprentice, to make even more money. I did find his comments on the so-called birthers, who he says shouldn't be so casually dismissed, noteworthy:

Trump seemed to throw his lot in with the discredited rumors that President Barack Obama wasn't born in America, saying he's a "little" skeptical of Obama's citizenship and that every so-called brother who shares the view shouldn't be so quickly dismissed as an "idiot."

"Growing up no one knew him," Trump told ABC's "Good Morning America" during an interview aboard his private plane, Trump Force One. "The whole thing is very strange."

Exactly. The American people still have no clue who this man is even after he's been president for more than two years, and he's using a battery of lawyers to make sure none of his records are unsealed. The total disinterest of the media in finding out the most basic biographical information on Obama that they dig, prod and probe to obtain on any other person seriously seeking the presidency is indeed befuddling.

UPDATE: Adding further to the insanity is the willingness of the AP to take the time to trace Obama's ancestors' roots to show his Irish heritage on St. Patrick's Day, while completing refusing to trace Obama's roots from birth. It would be nice if the AP would take the time to explain to us why a photo one of its photographers snapped back in 2007 of a school document in Indonesia showed Obama's name was Barry Soetoro and listed him as a citizen of Indonesia. Yeah, I would like to know a lot more about that than some dead relative from the 1800s. God forbid we shed any light on that bit of historical information.