The Only Thing We Know For Sure About the Birth-Mother of Trig is that Sarah Palin Lied

Anyone who has heard the name “Sarah Palin” knows she has a son, Trig, who has Down’s Syndrome. The night that she was introduced at the Republican Convention she paraded him for everyone to see like a prop or trophy.

Trig has served as a constant advertisement for Sarah on her position on abortion. From early on there were many questions raised about whether Trig was actually her natural born child. The number of absurd and inconsistent facts gave support for the controversy. Just a few of the unbelievable things highlighted have included :

 Nobody noticed she was pregnant even those closest to her in her office.

 She didn’t tell anyone, including her children, that she was pregnant until she was supposedly 7 months into the pregnancy.

 Pictures of her when pregnant before were inconsistent with the image of a “pregnant” Sarah Palin. 

 During the same time that Sarah would have been pregnant, Bristol was “out with mono” and missed 5 months from school.

 The fact that there were no pictures from the hospital’s web site of Trig Palin.

 The story told by Palin of the early labor that began in Texas, the two flights to get home to Alaska, the fact that Alaskan Airlines employees never noticed she was even pregnant, much less the fact that nobody on the planes noticed that she was in labor, was unbelievable. Even if Sarah was not concerned about the health of her child, most women would be afraid to board a flight if they even suspected they were in labor.

 A person met and talked to Todd Palin in the airport between flights on the way home from Texas, and saw Sarah reading a book, but had no idea she was pregnant or in labor.

 No birth certificate has ever been produced for Trig.

 Palin didn’t list Trig on her insurance until a month after he was supposedly born.

 Shailey Tripp gave Sarah a massage when she would have been 6-7 months pregnant and didn’t notice she was pregnant, and Sarah never advised her that she was pregnant.

 Palin’s flight from Texas landed in Anchorage. The drive from Anchorage to Wasilla is approximately one hour. Anchorage has a neonatal specialty unit which might be necessary for a premature child with Down’s Syndrome. Mat Su Regional Hospital where Trig was supposedly delivered does not.

 Cathy Baldwin Johnson, Sarah’s physician, lived in Anchorage, so it would have been easier for her to have Sarah go to the hospital in Anchorage when she landed to determine her condition, and progress if she was in her labor. Instead Sarah drove for an hour to the Mat Su Hospital in the middle of the night where she met Dr. Johnson, and didn’t give birth until 6:30 am, the time for shift change.

 Then there is the problem with inconsistent pictures of Trig’s ear, to suggest that we have seen two babies instead of a single child.

 Medical authorities agree that the length of labor tends to decrease with each child, so that a mother in labor with a fifth child would likely have a short labor.

 All of the other four pregnancies of Sarah Palin had been the typical 9 months.

Given all this information it obvious why there are so many questions regarding Palin’s claim that she gave birth to Trig. Although many ideas have been suggested about the birth mother of Trig, it seemed very clear that Sarah was not Trig’s birth mother.

I have not been an active participant in this scandal. However in my attempts to learn as much as possible about Sarah Palin, I have found recorded interviews of Sarah Palin, shortly after the birth, that are directly inconsistent with the story of the labor and delivery that she has told later.  Here is the interview that took place within days of the alleged birth. Upon listening to the discussion in this interview done within three days of Trig’s birth, Sarah Palin made the following comments that are in direct opposition to statements she made at a later time.

1. During the interview she said Trig was born at the Mat Su hospital. In a speech in Waco Texas she said he was born in Anchorge. 

2. During the interview Sarah Palin said that

“if I felt at all if I was engaged in labor …I would not have desired to fly “.

She went on to say:

“I am not a gluten for pain and punishment, I would never have wanted to travel if I had been fully engaged in labor. “

She described what was happening as “easy” and relaxing”,… “not contractions.”

However in many accounts of the events in Texas, the flight, and the subsequent trip, Palin has suggested that she WAS in labor. In Going Rogue she indicated she was in labor while giving her speech. At page 194 she states:

“Then I took the podium and opened by teasing the audience about how great it was to be in our “little sister state of Texas.” Big laughs. More contractions.” “Then I handed the mic back to Rick and walked off the stage. “Hey,” Rick drawled over the sound system with a chuckle, “we’re not finished with the program!” I turned around, smiled, waved, and kept moving. “I know you’re pregnant,” Rick said joking into the mic. “But don’t tell me you’re going off to have the baby right now!” The audience laughed. I smiled and waved good-bye, I thought, if you only knew.”

3. During the interview Sarah said that neither she or Todd could tell that Trig was a child with Down’s Syndrome. However she later said that even Willow knew when she first looked at Trig that he was a child with Down’s syndrome. Here is the actual quote:

“ As Todd and their three daughters gathered around the bedside (Track, an Army private, listened in by phone from his base in Fairbanks), Willow said of the new arrival, “He looks like he has Down syndrome.”

Palin, who says her own qualms were laid to rest “the minute [Trig] was born,” felt a lump in her throat. “If he does, you know you will still love him, Willow. It’ll be okay.”

Willow pressed: “But why didn’t you tell us?”

Palin admitted she didn’t know how to break the news. “I was a little shocked,” says Willow “but I don’t care – he’s my brother and I love him.”

Given this disparity the pictures of Trig’s ear are even more important.

The problem with lying is that you have to remember the lie if you are going to repeat it over and over. We now have proof that Sarah Palin has a poor memory for the lies she has told. Despite the number of factors that have given rise to the controversy about the true birth mother of Trig, it is easy to understand why people don’t know what to believe. Given the proof of the lies of Sarah Palin about Trig’s birth, it seems the only conclusion that we can be sure of is that Sarah Palin lied.

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Laura Novak’s blog has more pictures that are worth checking out.  She has pictures of Sarah and Trig that provide a good illustration of the fraud.