Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) accidentally walked into the world of birther conspiracy theories last month, when a local newspaper seemed to report that Franks
“„Probably, Barack Obama could solve this problem and make the birthers, you know, back off, by simply showing us his long-form birth certificate. That’d solve the problem. There’s some other issue, I don’t know what it is, that he doesn’t want people to see the birth certificate on.