(REUTERS) Despite several requests from CNN, MSNBC and NPR, sources at Trump campaign headquarters refuse to provide a copy of candidate Donald Trump's birth certificate, feeding rumors that the reality TV star turned presidential hopeful was in fact born in the former Soviet Union and brought to this country at the age of 4 under the name Demitri Trumpovich.

It is rumored that he is a cousin to former Premier Gorbachev, and has a similar birthmark on his forehead.

"That could explain his hair," says Sovietologist Jacob Wilson. "He's obviously concealing something under that thing."

Trump, who is preparing for the Iowa Caucuses by visiting a cornfield near Albany could not be reached for comment.



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