Everyone is saying that this man is Chelsea Clinton's real father.

This presidential campaign just turned into an episode of Jerry Springer.

Rumours have long been flying around about the true paternity of former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton.

But now, according to The National Enquirer, the 35-year-old has “secretly undergone a DNA test” – and when they say secret, they mean she didn’t even know about the test – that apparently proves former President Bill Clinton might not be her biological father.

The American supermarket tabloid’s “exhaustive investigation” involved reporters chasing both Chelsea and her mother’s former law partner, Webb Hubbell, around the country to obtain “touch DNA” from them both. (FYI, they used Sharpies and books that the subjects had touched to give autographs – and a Starbucks cup Hubbell had been drinking from – to obtain this rock-solid DNA.)

They then sent the samples off to a lab specialising in paternity testing.

Enter the “bombshell revelation that threatens to turn Hillary’s 2016 presidential campaign into absolute chaos”… the lab result was “inconclusive”.

One would have thought a positive result would be more likely to derail Hillary’s campaign than this nothing verdict, but apparently the finding which “does not discount the possibility” that Hubbell is Chelsea’s father is sufficient.

Bill’s former aide, Larry Nichols, told The National Enquirer: “They can’t question DNA.”

About a year ago, he claimed Bill once admitted in 1984 that he couldn’t be the biological father of the couple’s only child because he “shoot(s) blanks”.

“I asked him, ‘Then what about Chelsea?’ And Bill said, ‘Oh, Webb sired her’,” Mr Nichols said.

(The best thing about this whole (non) scandal is that, if true, this famous line from the classic romantic film The Way We Were would be totally appropriate.)

Jezebel points out the story needs to be taken with a healthy dose of scepticism due to its source. Though it also points out the Enquirer did break two major political stories in the past decade – a cheating scandal involving Senator John Edwards and Bristol Palin’s pregnancy.

We’re still dubious.

Surely a paternity scandal involving a former POTUS and a hopeful presidential candidate would have been discovered by now.

Though it sure could explain why Hillary stuck by her cheating husband…

So scandalous. Maybe. Maybe not.

Who do you think Chelsea’s father is?

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