Arpaio decides to drop Obama birth certificate talk until he’s elected
Mar 28, 2018, 10:18 AM | Updated: 10:21 am
PHOENIX — Arizona U.S. Senate candidate Joe Arpaio said over the weekend that he would drop talk about former President Barack Obama’s birth certificate until he was elected.
“I don’t talk about it anymore until I become a U.S. senator … it has something to do with a document,” he told a crowd at the Western Conservative Conference at the Phoenix Convention Center near Third and Adams streets.
“I’m kind of dropping that right now, but I’m going to tell you something: 100 percent we proved that’s a fake document,” he said. “One hundred. I’m not talking about computers, what’s on it. I’m talking about our scientific (process). We had to go to Italy to get expert advice. It’s a very interesting story.”
The former Maricopa County sheriff said earlier this year that he planned to continue the investigation into the birth certificate should he be elected.
“I started this because a fake document, a government document — I didn’t care where the president came from, I didn’t care at all,” Arpaio said in an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo in January.
“And we had this evidence, nobody will talk about it, nobody will look at it, but anytime you want to come down, we will be glad to show it again. And by the way, you’re going to hear more about this fake, phony birth certificate.”
Prior to his CNN interview, Arpaio said on WABC radio that he wanted to get the evidence to Congress so “they can pass some type of law, some regulation, that when someone runs for president, you oughta check their background so this won’t happen again.”
Arpaio will face several challengers in the Republican primary in August, including U.S. Rep. Martha McSally and Dr. Kelli Ward.
Should he win that race, Arpaio would likely face Democratic U.S. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema in November’s general election.
