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Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate, released 27 April 2011.
10.51am ET: As predicted, the Birther Taliban are not yet ready to let go of it ? and are busy moving the goalposts, according to this reporting by Politico:
Phil Berg, who filed one of the original birther lawsuits, now believes that Obama was adopted by his Indonesian father and lost his US citizenship:
"I think the issue is that he's not any more natural born. I don't care if he releases his birth certificate or whatever," said Berg. "Let's see his records coming back through immigration"
Orly Taitz, once called 'Queen of the birthers' and who was responsible for a number of lawsuits, is verifying the document's authenticity and now believes that the President is using a false social security number.
None of which is as sexy as "born in Kenya". But top marks for trying.
10.35am ET: How has the epicentre of birtherism ? the swivel-eyed website WorldNetDaily ? coping with today's events? Here's its lead headline:
White House releases Obama 'birth certificate'
The "quote marks" say it all.
10.20am ET: With a great sense of timing, earlier this morning I'd blogged on the very subject of Trump, Obama and birtherism, which noted this from a new USA Today/Gallup opinion poll:
[I]n the USA Today poll, only 38% of Americans say Obama definitely was born in the USA, and 18% say he probably was. Fifteen percent say he probably was born in another country, and 9% say he definitely was born elsewhere.
And when the same sample was asked if Donald Trump was born in the US, here's the result:
For what it's worth, not everyone is convinced Trump was born in the USA either: 43% say he definitely was born here, and 20% say he probably was; 7% say he definitely or probably was born in another country. Nearly three in 10 say they don't know enough to say.