Mr. Trump has already begun trying to find other ways to lure the media, including a discussion of Mr. Obama’s academic background and whether he deserved to be admitted to Columbia and Harvard. But it’s unclear whether the media will continue to bite the way it did on the birth certificate story. And Mr. Trump is increasingly facing questions about his own history. But he told the Post, “The fact that it was a settled issue did not keep it from becoming a major part of the political discussion in this town for the last several weeks here. So there’s absolutely no question that what the president released in 2008 was his birth certificate and answered that question, and many of your organizations have done excellent reporting which proved that to be the case. But it continued; the president thought it was a sideshow and chose to take this step today.”
