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Facebook posts
stated on February 19, 2025 a Facebook post

“The media is showing how Obama’s birth certificate was changed! He was never born in the U.S. so he was never a real president!”

February 21, 2025

Threads posts
stated on January 5, 2025 a Threads post

Image shows former President Barack Obama was born in Kenya.

January 13, 2025

Viral image
stated on January 9, 2022 a Facebook post

“Barack Obama’s real father is Communist Party propagandist Frank Marshall Davis.”

January 10, 2022

Bloggers
stated on December 14, 2021 a blog post

“Obama certificate a fake.”

December 20, 2021

Bloggers
stated on April 20, 2012 a Facebook post

"Obama’s lawyers officially admit birth certificate is fake."

January 28, 2020

Jacob Wohl
stated on January 22, 2019 a tweet

"Kamala Harris is NOT eligible to be President."

By Louis Jacobson • January 22, 2019

SupremeInsider.com
stated on July 22, 2018 a blog post

"Barack Obama: I'm 'the First Sitting American President to Come From Kenya.'"

By Heaven Taylor-Wynn • July 25, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 a presidential debate

Says top Clinton advisers "were pressing" birther movement stories "very hard."

By Jon Greenberg • September 27, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2016 in a speech

"I finished" the controversy about where President Barack Obama was born.

By Louis Jacobson • September 16, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2016 a speech

"Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy."

By Jon Greenberg, Linda Qiu • September 16, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2016 comments at a speech

On whether Barack Obama was born in the United States.

By Aaron Sharockman • September 16, 2016

Reince Priebus
stated on August 29, 2016 an interview on NBC's Meet the Press

"Her campaign and her supporters in her campaign were the ones that borne out the birther movement."

By Allison Graves • August 29, 2016

Facebook posts
stated on November 13, 2013 multiple posts

Barack Obama’s Columbia University ID says he was a foreign student and went by "Barry Soetoro."

By Clayton Youngman • December 9, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on September 22, 2015 a tweet

"The birther movement was started by Hillary Clinton in 2008. She was all in!"

By Jon Greenberg • September 23, 2015

Town hall audience member
stated on September 17, 2015 a town hall held by Donald Trump in Rochester, N.H.

"You know our current president is (Muslim). You know he's not even an American."

By Lauren Carroll • September 18, 2015

Tennessee Democratic Party
stated on August 28, 2012 in a press release.

Says a federal judge "sanctions Tennessee ‘birther’ lawyer … for bringing a frivolous lawsuit."

By Richard Locker • September 2, 2012

Chain email
stated on April 1, 2012 e-mail messages circulating on the Internet

Says Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie made a late-night visit to Kinko’s to forge President Barack Obama’s birth certificate two days before Obama unveiled it to the media.

By Louis Jacobson • June 7, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on April 27, 2011 a press conference

Says stories about his birth certificate drowned out media coverage of the Republican and White House budget plans the week of April 11.

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2011

Leo Berman
stated on April 27, 2011 a Texas Tribune article

Says the hospital listed on Barack Obama’s just-publicized long-form birth certificate denies the president was born there.

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • April 27, 2011

Donald Trump
stated on April 7, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today" show

President Obama has spent over $2 million in legal fees defending lawsuits about his birth certificate.

By Louis Jacobson • April 12, 2011

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