Trump continues to doubt Obama's birth certificate

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Donald Trump continues to question the authenticity of President Barack Obama's birth certificate.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry suggested in a recent interview that Trump still harbored doubts about Obama's birth certificate.

Perry said he did not know whether Obama's birth certificate was the real deal, but at a dinner with Trump the issue had come up.

"He doesn't think it's real," said Perry.

Perry said he could not "definitively" say whether Obama's birth certificate was authentic, but said it was a "distractive issue".

"It doesn't matter. He's the President of the United States. He's elected."

Trump released his own statement about the birth certificate, saying, "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.'"

Republican strategist Karl Rove slammed Perry's interview comments.

If "you associate yourself with a nutty view like that, and you damage yourself".

He believes that Perry's birth certificate skepticism could "maginalize" him with voters.

- HERALD ONLINE