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Facebook posts
stated on February 19, 2025 in 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 in 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 in 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 in a blog post:

“Obama certificate a fake.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • December 20, 2021

Bloggers
stated on April 20, 2012 in 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 in a tweet:

"Kamala Harris is NOT eligible to be President."

By Louis Jacobson • January 22, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2016 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 February 10, 2011 in 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."

By Robert Farley • February 14, 2011

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

President Obama is a Muslim.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 26, 2010

Chain email
stated on August 3, 2010 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in an attachment to a lawsuit:

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

By Robert Farley • August 21, 2009

Chain email
stated on May 24, 2009 in 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."

By Robert Farley • July 1, 2009

Chain email
stated on April 18, 2008:

"His true name is Barak Hussein Muhammed Obama."

By Amy Hollyfield • May 2, 2008

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