The conversation about Barack Obama's birth certificate has been off the table for a while now – but the true heart of the matter has never been resolved.

Has anything in his administration been valid or legal? Oddly enough, it seems that a clever legal strategy may make the question of a forged document somehow irrelevant to Obama's eligibility to hold office.

Coincidentally or not, it was none other than President-elect Donald Trump who, arguably, called off the hounds, got the Obama Admin to produce a document, and then called the whole thing square in the lead up to 2012.

More recently, Trump dismissed his previous ties to the "birther movement" during the last few weeks of his presidential campaign, brushing off the topic very hurriedly by stating: "President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period."

However, the question isn't settled for investigators who have been conducting a five-year probe of the birth certificate they claim is a forgery – complete with photoshop layers!