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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!”

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 21, 2025

Threads posts
stated on January 5, 2025 a Threads post:

Image shows former President Barack Obama was born in Kenya.

By Ciara O'Rourke • 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.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 10, 2022

Bloggers
stated on December 14, 2021 a blog post:

“Obama certificate a fake.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • December 20, 2021

Bloggers
stated on April 20, 2012 a Facebook post:

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

By Ciara O'Rourke • 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, Ciara O'Rourke • 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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