Palin stands behind voters and Trump seeking information

Sarah Palin appeared on FOX News’ Judge Jeanine on Saturday to discuss everything from the budget cuts to Paul Ryan’s Road Map to energy and more. But it seems as though her comment regarding Donald Trump is receiving the most media attention.

Donald Trump has made it known that he’s very skeptical over whether President Barack Obama is a citizen of the United States and continues to claim, “There’s something on that birth certificate that he doesn’t like.” Echoing the sentiments of those the left likes to call “birthers,” Trump recently demanded on ABC’s The View, “I want him to show his birth certificate.”

Although Obama states he was born in Hawaii and that his birth certificate is on file at the state’s Department of Health, Trump insists that questions over Obama’s birthplace have not been settled and the president has spent “millions of dollars” in legal fees to try to get away from this issue. The president has released a “certificate of live birth,” a shorter document that carries the same legal weight as a birth certificate in Hawaii, but the president has not released his so-called “longform” birth certificate, and this has been the source of speculation.

With rumors swirling of a potential 2012 presidential bid by Trump, the issue has once again come front and center.

Judge Jeanine asked Palin what she thought of the issue.

“I appreciate that the Donald wants to spend his resources on getting to the bottom of something that so interests him and many Americans, you know more power to him,” Palin said. “He’s not just throwing stones from the sidelines, he’s digging in, he’s paying for researchers to find out why President Obama would have spent $2 million to not show his birth certificate, so more power to him.”

Palin added, “I think that he [Obama] was born in Hawaii because there was the birth announcement put in the newspaper. But obviously there is something there that the president doesn’t want people to see on that birth certificate, that he sees going to great lengths to make sure that it isn’t shown. And that’s perplexing for a lot of people.”

As much as the media want to portray Palin as flip-flopping on the issue, the former governor has continually supported the right of voters to seek information if they so choose.

In a previous Facebook post from December 2009 titled, Stupid Conspiracies, Palin stated, “Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I’ve pointed out that it was seemingly fair game during the 2008 election for many on the left to badger my doctor and lawyer for proof that Trig is in fact my child. Conspiracy-minded reporters and voters had a right to ask… which they have repeatedly. But at no point – not during the campaign, and not during recent interviews – have I asked the president to produce his birth certificate or suggested that he was not born in the United States.”
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As published on Examiner.com