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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

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

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

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

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

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 February 10, 2011 a speech at the CPAC conference

"The people that went to school with (Barack Obama), they never saw him, they don't know who he is."

February 14, 2011

18% of the American public
stated on August 19, 2010 a Pew Research Center poll

President Obama is a Muslim.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 26, 2010

Chain email
stated on August 3, 2010 referring to a YouTube video

"Obama admits he is not a citizen."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 5, 2010

Chain email
stated on June 28, 2010 a chain e-mail.

When Obama went to Pakistan in 1981, he could not have been traveling as a U.S. citizen.

By Alex Holt • July 30, 2010

Chain email
stated on June 28, 2010 a chain e-mail

A transcript released by Occidental College proves that Barack Obama was an Indonesian citizen.

By Alex Holt • July 30, 2010

Chain email
stated on June 28, 2010 a chain e-mail

Justice Antonin Scalia agreed for the Supreme Court to hear a case about whether Barack Obama is eligible to be President.

By Alex Holt • July 30, 2010

Orly Taitz
stated on August 2, 2009 an attachment to a lawsuit

Birthers have obtained a copy of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate.

August 21, 2009

Chain email
stated on May 24, 2009 an e-mail received by many people.

The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 "would guarantee Barack Obama will never be held accountable for producing forged birth documents."

July 1, 2009

Chain email
stated on April 18, 2008

"His true name is Barak Hussein Muhammed Obama."

May 2, 2008

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