Double loosers: Sarah Palin offers support for Donald Trump’s ‘birther’ quest

YAHOO: Donald Trump earned kudos from Sarah Palin this weekend for his recent "birther" push.
The former Alaska governor suggested on Fox's "Justice with Judge Jeanine" show Saturday night that the real estate magnate is doing something good for the American people by sending researchers to Hawaii to investigate the validity of President Obama's birth certificate.

"Well ... I appreciate that the Donald wants to spend his resources getting to the bottom of something that so interests him and many Americans," Palin said. "More power to him. He's not just throwing stones from the sidelines. He's digging in there. He's paying for researchers to find out why President Obama would have spent $2 million to not show his birth certificate."

Trump on Friday defended his "birther" questioning in a letter to New York Times columnist Gail Collins, who had ripped him for his birther quest last week. Trump wrote that he is determined to get Obama's birth certificate, not the "certificate of live birth" the president has made public. Hawaii officials have long stated they possess the certificate and that the president was born in Hawaii. Multiple fact check groups have delved into the issue.
So does Palin hold the same beliefs as Trump regarding the record of Obama entering the world?
As she has said in the past, Palin on Saturday dismissed the notion she herself is a birther:

I think that he was born in Hawaii because there was the birth announcement put in the newspaper. But obviously there is something there that the president doesn't want people to see on that birth certificate, that he sees going to great lengths to make sure it isn't shown. And that's perplexing for a lot of people.

*  For Palin I would say, anything for relevance