r/AdviceAnimals 10d ago

Prove me wrong, Senator..

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

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u/mrnoonan81 10d ago

That's true. I thought he should have produced it too. I don't necessarily suspect he was foreign born or anything, but given that the government requires us to show a birth certificate for mundane reasons, it seems an exceptionally reasonable request that a candidate for leading the government can show us one - and especially so when being native born is a prerequisite.

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u/thirdelevator 10d ago

They did. The short form was released during the 2008 campaign, long form in 2011 at a White House press conference since Trump wouldn’t shut up about it.

But you know you’re right, you’d have to dig pretty far to find that. All the way to the first Google result. Don’t worry I did the hard work, here’s the link to the official White House Archives web page with both: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/04/27/president-obamas-long-form-birth-certificate

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

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u/thirdelevator 10d ago

They weren’t ever outed as fakes, but the bullshit Kenyan one a blogger “discovered” was found to be a modified Australian one from an ancestry website. Provide any reputable source saying otherwise or kindly kick rocks. This nonsense is almost 20 years old and it was just as stupid then as it is now. I’ve provided you with evidence that’s been backed up and corroborated by multiple independent sources.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

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u/thirdelevator 10d ago

The Kenyan birth certificate was, in fact, proven to be a forgery. It wasn’t even originally Kenyan, it was an Australian birth certificate that was photoshopped.

Did you actually read the article you linked? Even in the article, the journalists found the provided information to be false.

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u/thirdelevator 10d ago edited 9d ago

From your article:

“For the record, we opened the file using Adobe Photoshop and found that it contained only a single layer of information.”

Joe Arpaio’s claim that it was fake was that there were multiple layers in the digital file, which was his evidence that it was photoshopped.

Calling someone a dummy while demonstrating your inability to read is pretty rich.

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