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All Fact-checks for Obama Birth Certificate

stated on January 9, 2022 in a Facebook post

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

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stated on December 14, 2021 in a blog post

“Obama certificate a fake.”

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stated on April 20, 2012 in a Facebook post

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

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stated on January 22, 2019 in a tweet

"Kamala Harris is NOT eligible to be President."

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SupremeInsider.com

stated on July 22, 2018 in a blog post

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

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stated on September 26, 2016 in a presidential debate

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

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stated on September 16, 2016 in in a speech

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

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stated on September 16, 2016 in a speech

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

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stated on September 16, 2016 in comments at a speech

On whether Barack Obama was born in the United States.

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stated on August 29, 2016 in 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."

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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."

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stated on September 22, 2015 in a tweet

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

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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."

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Tennessee Democratic Party

stated on August 28, 2012 in in a press release.

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

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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.

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stated on April 27, 2011 in 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.

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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.

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

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

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stated on April 7, 2011 in a "Today Show" interview

Says President Obama's "grandmother in Kenya said he was born in Kenya and she was there and witnessed the birth."

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stated on March 4, 2011 in an op-ed in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A bill before the Georgia General Assembly would make presidential candidates meet citizenship requirements that are not in the U.S. Constitution.

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