Maybe we should be looking for a name change in Chicago six months or more before he ran for office.
Years ago a friend of mind found out when she was about to be married that the name she had used her entire life was not her name. Her “father” was in fact a step father who had not legally adopted her. She therefore had to go through a name change before she could get a license to marry.
AS messed up as his mother was who knows what he was told. Remember he even said in the book that the BC told him things he didn’t know or something like that.
I have a friend that had a similar situation. Her father had abandoned them when she was small, her mother had divorced him and remarried. My friend had no memory of her real father. They all used the stepfather’s last name. When she was in high school, her bio father came looking for them. He caused real trauma, insisting that she return to using his name but also demanding custody of the son. He did not want her, just the son but insisted she use her legal name not the stepfather’s. He would not allow adoption at that time. When she turned 18 she had her name legally changed. As for the son, thankfully, he did not get custody.
” Remember he even said in the book that the BC told him things he didn’t know “ ... or didn’t want to know, or didn’t want to find out.