Who Has “Debunked” Obama’s Birth Certificate Forgery?

(Jan. 2, 2017) — In an article at the Modesto Bee published on Monday, AP reporter Jacques Billeaud has again claimed that the results of the five-year investigation into the long-form birth certificate image posted on the White House website declaring it a forgery have been “debunked.”

In a summary of the 24-year, or six-term, tenure of now-former Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph M. Arpaio, Billeaud presented the views of both critics and proponents of Arpaio’s controversial stances on illegal immigration, treatment of prisoners in his jails, and those in the community accused of animal cruelty.

However, although reporting in his second paragraph that Arpaio’s five-year investigation of the image posted by the Obama White House on April 27, 2011 purported to represent Obama’s original birth record from the state of Hawaii as a “debunked controversy,” Billeaud provided no evidence to support his claim.