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Claims that Barack Obama’s birth certificate was “fake” are long-standing and have been repeatedly investigated; Hawaii state officials and multiple fact-checkers have affirmed that the original recor...
Courts repeatedly rejected challenges to Barack Obama’s eligibility and birth-certificate claims; the Hawaii Department of Health and multiple courts treated the state birth record as the authoritativ...
Barack Obama released two versions of his Hawaiian birth documentation—a short-form "certificate of live birth" in 2008 and a long-form birth certificate in 2011—both authenticated by Hawaiian officia...
Donald Trump amplified and sustained the “birther” claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States by repeatedly pointing to supposed irregularities in the birth documentation, citing anonym...
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961, and contemporary records and state officials have affirmed that birth in Hawaii . Multiple reputable fact-checkers and news outlets report ...
Multiple Hawaii officials and documents have been presented over time as verifying President Barack Obama’s Hawaii birth records. are the primary named verifiers in official statements and certificati...
Loretta Jean Fuddy was the director of the Hawaii Department of Health from 2011 until her death in 2013 and also served as mayor of Kalawao County under state law . As Hawaii’s health director she ap...
Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate released in April 2011 shows he was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii, to parents Stanley Ann Dun...
Official an vital records and multiple contemporaneous and later certifications confirm that was born in on August 4, 1961, and those records were publicly certified and reproduced by in 2011 . State ...
Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii; the available records and biographical accounts state that his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was in Honolulu at the time of his birth, which...
’s routine practice is to issue a computer-generated "" — commonly called the short form — to requestors, while keeping the original, long-form birth records in confidential files and releasing them o...
The "birther" controversy was a sustained conspiracy movement that questioned whether was born in the and therefore constitutionally eligible to be president; it surfaced during the 2008 campaign, per...
The Hawaii Department of Health publicly confirmed that its original vital records show Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu on August 4, 1961, and in 2011 the state provided certified copies ...
Multiple official documents and repeated investigations confirm Barack Obama was born in Hawaii: the Obama campaign posted a Hawaii "certification of live birth" in June 2008 and the White House relea...