“While some Republicans were talking about Obama’s birth certificate, Obama was preparing bin Laden’s death certificate,” said Peter King, the Republican chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, who has never entertained the birther conspiracies and gave the president credit for facing existential threats while some in his party were “going off the rails.”

“Those issues go away now and hopefully the debate will go to a higher level,” King said…

[Trump aide Michael] Cohen bristled at King’s suggestion that the killing of the al-Qaeda leader had reminded the country about important issues and candidates — in short, those not usually associated with Trump — and that as a result, Trump had become relegated back to the sideshow. “Why don’t they wait until the next poll?” asked Cohen, adding emphatically: “He’ll be back. Mr. Trump will be back!”