Donald Trump releases birth certificate ... except it's not

[Riot]

I love politics. This is gonna be the best, most fun, presidential election season evah

Donald Trump has recently publicly revealed himself to be a conspiracy-theory birther. Trump has been calling for Obama to release his own birth certificate.

(Trump is apparently unawares that a copy of Obama's birth certificate has been available on the internet for 3 years, and it's authenticity has been verified by multiple officials, including the Republican Governor of Hawaii, and ancillary information - newspapers, etc. And it was George W. Bush's administration that verified Obama was a US citizen that could run for President, and neither Hillary or McCain's campaign could find any problems with Obama's citizenship)

Today Trump released his own birth certificate with a flourish. Seriously.

Except ... it's not an official birth certificate.

Where's your birth certificate, Trump? What are you hiding?

Newsmax, the conservative site to which Trump released his non-official birth certificate document
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/d...3/28/id/390930

And appropriate superficial investigation reveals the document not to be official
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmi...rtificate.html

And the absolutely bestest part is Ben Smith's tongue-in-cheek "comment" at the end of his article:

"Trump's mother, it should be noted, was born in Scotland, which is not part of the United States. His plane is registered in the Bahamas, also a foreign country. This fact pattern -- along with the wave of new questions surrounding what he claims is a birth certificate -- raises serious doubts about his eligibility to serve as President of the United States.

LOL - you go, Ben.