“We saw what he did when Donald Trump threatened to move it to the front burner last April: he released his long form.”
He didn’t release sh1t. Without a chain of custody document and credible people handling it, that document is worth exactly nothing. Photoshopped or not.
No, the birthers were actually gaining traction. He needed to get in the last word and kill off any responses or criticism. Thats’s why he released it on the eve of UBL’s death. He saved that card and played it wisely. I heard he actually delayed the raid. Imagine if he did that (making the seals wait and giving UBL a chance to escape) so he could get his game in order? How would that make you feel?
If he truly has nothing to hide, tell him to unseal the records and let anyone (even his critics) look at it.
I expect he's saving that card for when and if he really needs to play it.
If he is made to play it, it will likely show the document released last April was a true copy. That will again embarrass the birthers. But then the focus will shift to Hawaii and whether the original paper document can be impeached and whether any shenanigans within the Hawaii government can be proved. Hopefully, the birther circus will fall into final irrelevance next January, when, for reasons having nothing to do with his BC, he returns to Chicago to help his neighbor Bill Ayers ghost-write his memoirs.