Donald Trump was on The Factor last night (video below), once again speculating that Barack Obama was not born in America and therefore should not be President. At this point, the "birther" movement has been so discredited that even Bill O'Reilly scoffs at it, and he told Trump, "It's provocative, I think it gets a lot of attention, but I don't think you believe it." But the ochre oligarch stood his ground, patiently explaining to O'Reilly why he questions Obama's nationality:
I have a birth certificate. People have birth certificates. He doesn’t have a birth certificate. 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.
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? 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.
And who's to say Obama's grandparents didn't pay for the announcement in case their grandson needed to "prove" his U.S. citizenship so he could run for president someday? Here, supposedly, is the birth certificate, but as one skeptic points out, Obama's people "might have obtained a valid Hawaii birth certificate, soaked it in solvent, then reprinted it with Obama's information."
Unfortunately for Trump, his important news appearance was overshadowed by some unwanted questions about the Miss Universe pageant he sponsors. New Jersey resident Evi Siskos, who competed to be the Dominican Republic winner in the pageant, held a press conference yesterday demanding Miss Universe officials investigate claims that the actual winner bribed her way to the crown. Reports in Spanish newspapers allege that Dalia Fernandez paid over $100,000 to get the coveted tiara.
"I came into the contest expecting a fair shot," says Siskos, who spent her childhood in the Dominican Republic. "This has been my dream since I was a little girl." And her attorney demonstrated faith that Trump would do the right thing, telling reporters, "Donald Trump is a fair man. He's very powerful. He should look into it." We're sure The Donald will get right on that.
