Two Birth Certificates: Which is Real?

Source: Employee of the Bureau of Records and Statistics in the borough of Queens, the City of New York, via the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Southern District of New York.

Donald Trump’s official birth certificate, on file at the NYC Dept. of Health.

On October 15, 2016, Timothy Thomas Talbott, 96, fell to his death from the front porch of his home in Masspeth, Queens. Mr. Talbott had been an employee of the NYC Department of Health from 1939 until his retirement in 1984.  Among his possessions was a sealed plastic bag taped inside a toilet tank. It contained 38 state-mandated physician reports of venereal disease in prominent New York socialites dating back to 1942, and the original paper record of the birth of one Donald John Doe on June 14, 1946, which bore a number of similarities to the document above, including the certificate number.  (Shown below) 

Pursuant to a federal search warrant, in March 2017 authorities discovered a false wall in the Mr. Talbott’s basement hiding a crawl space that contained nearly $4,000 in crumpled bills, a keepsake album with several dozen pairs of carefully pressed women’s undergarments, and $250,000 in chips from the Trump Plaza Casino, now worthless.  The investigation was shelved shortly thereafter.

Update: On August 12, 2020, John C. Eastman, a prominent conservative legal scholar, argued in a Newsweek column that Kamala Harris was not eligible to run for Vice President since her parents were not naturalized citizens at the time of her birth in Oakland, CA.

Many other legal scholars dismissed Mr. Eastman’s argument, calling it “truly silly,” “Worse than nonsense,” and “garbage.” Asked about it two days later, Mr. Trump responded, “I heard it today that she doesn’t meet the requirements,” adding “It’s very serious.”

Update 2: On January 5, 2024, Mr. Trump reposted a story on the Gateway pundit, claiming that Nikki