usatoday.com - Dec 15th 2016 - Sheriff Joe Arpaio renews birther claims about Obama's birth certificate (Archived)

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^ article opens: (note, video does not seem to load, see youtube video below!)

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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says a new video analysis shows that parts of Obama's birth certificate were copied from another certificate. After arguing his point for five years, Arpaio says he will turn this new evidence over to the fed. USA TODAY

PHOENIX — It was a presentation hyped by a tauntingly brief media notification more than 24 hours earlier: On Thursday afternoon, it said, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio would present the newest revelations on an investigation into President Obama’s birth certificate. At 4 p.m. sharp, Arpaio and a member of his Sheriff's Office's Cold Case Posse had a big message for the 40-odd journalists in attendance: You were wrong.

Arpaio and his aides announced that a five-year investigation had "proved" that Obama’s birth certificate from Hawaii in 1961 was a fake. An accompanying presentation highlighted what they called “9 points of forgery” on the document, which focused on the angles of date stamps, typed letters and words.

According to the theory, the birth certificate presented to the public was created after copying and pasting information from the legitimate birth certificate of a woman born in Hawaii.

This was December last year... almost to the date, even.

IMPORTANT: Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Obama’s Birth Certificate is Forgery Press Conference 12/15/16

I've watched the above and their work is amazing, seriously, check it out.

Then there's this attempted smear by splinternews.com contributor, David Boddiger, published on September 30th 2017; article opens:

A pardon by President Donald Trump last month has breathed new life into former AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his racist crusade to “prove” the hoax and conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

Arpaio, 85, promised during a Republican fundraiser in Fresno, CA, on Friday night that he would continue “investigating” birtherism claims. It was an event that many Republican politicians in California steered clear of, probably not because they’re ashamed of their own party, but rather out of concern over their own political futures.

Is it possible that Donald Trump actually pardoned Joe Arpaio, on account of his work(and the work of others) investigating the legitimacy of Barack Obama's birth certificate?