A March 28 WorldNetDaily article uncritically promotes Donald Trump’s claim that President Obama has “spent millions of dollars trying to get away from this issue” of his birth certificate and eligibility. But WND did not serve up any evidence Trump has to back up the claim — perhaps because there isn’t any, as WND should know.
WND reported in October 2009 that “President Obama has paid nearly $1.7 million to his top eligibility lawyer since the election” — a claim that wasn’t exactly true. The evidence WND presented showed only that Obama’s campaign, reorganized after the 2008 election as Organizing for America, paid that money to the law firm representing the campaign, but no proof was offered that all of the money — or, for that matter, any of it — went toward addressing “eligibility” questions.
WND also touted how “Trump released a copy of his own hospital-generated birth certificate to the media today, listing New York City’s Jamaica Hospital as his place of birth on June 14, 1946.” But as we’ve noted, the certificate was issued by a hospital, not the state-issued certificate he’s demanding from Obama. That makes it even less valuable the certification of live birth Obama’s campaign released, which, unlike Trump’s certificate, was issued by a state agency.
You’d think WND would call Trump out on that. But since he’s doing WND’s dirty work in promoting the birther narrative, Joseph Farah and Co. are apparently going to give him a pass on the certificate’s relatively meaninglessness.