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New York real estate mogul and reality television star Donald Turmp is again stirring controversy regarding President Obama’s birth certificate.
Mr. Trump, who in 2011 pushed the president to present his official birth certificate, took to Twitter late last week, writing that the death of Hawaii’s Health Director Loretta Fuddy — the principal director of the state’s birth certificate registry and health industry — may be part of an ongoing conspiracy.
Mr. Trump tweeted: “How amazing, the State Health Director who verified copies of Obama’s ‘birth certificate’ died in plane crash today. All others lived.”
On Wednesday afternoon, Loretta Fuddy, the director of Hawaii’s Department of Health, died in a small, commercial plane crash off the coast of the Hawaiian island Molokai. Fuddy, who had been director of Hawaii’s health department since March 2011, was the official who verified and approved the release of President Obama’s birth certificate. Fuddy was the only one of eight others on a plane crash that died.
While there is no evidence of any wrongdoing, the White House has yet to address the issue. Mr. Trump gained national attention in 2011 when he was debating running for president as a Republican candidate. Instead, Mr. Trump announced in May 2011 that he would forgo a run and would instead return to host another season of NBC’s The Apprentice.
Mr. Trump, who seemed to take great pride in pressuring the president to release a copy of his birth certificate, did not seem content at the time, saying he remained suspicious of its authenticity.
“Is it authentic? – I don’t know – but I am proud of the fact that I was able to get him to do something that nobody else was able to get him to do – release the ‘certificate.'”
