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Obama White House Crashers Cold Opening

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Dec 7, 2025
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What primary evidence debunks the rumour that Michelle Obama was born male or once used the name Michael Robinson?

Primary documentary evidence and official biographies show Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama was born in Chicago (official long-form and short-form birth records archived by the Obama White House) and ...

Dec 7, 2025
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Did Obama build the basketball court for the White House?

President Barack Obama did not build a new indoor basketball arena at the White House; he adapted the existing South Lawn tennis court so it could be used for full‑court basketball by adding hoops and...

Oct 27, 2025
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What due process did Obama use in deporting

The claim that President Obama “deported” people through a process that lacked due process reflects a mix of documented enforcement policies and sharp critiques of expedited procedures; the administra...

Jan 13, 2026

Did Obama receive funds from the affordable care act

The short answer is no: claims that former President Barack Obama received recurring “royalties” or direct payments from the Affordable Care Act (often called “Obamacare”) are false and trace back to ...

Dec 11, 2025

What official documents confirm Michelle Obama's birthplace and birth name?

Official, contemporaneous records and authoritative institutional biographies identify Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama as born January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois; the Obama White House archives a...

Oct 5, 2025

What was the timeline of the Epstein case during the Obama administration?

The central fact is that the key legal agreements that limited federal prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein—most notably the non-prosecution agreement (NPA) and the 2008 state plea—were negotiated and signe...

Nov 16, 2025

Barack Hussein Obama's name was removed from the Epstein list?

Available reporting and document dumps from November 2025 do not show that “Barack Hussein Obama’s name was removed from the Epstein list”; rather, public releases so far focus on emails and documents...

Nov 16, 2025

Did Barack Obama ever visit properties or events owned by Jeffrey Epstein?

Available reporting and document releases do not show Barack Obama visiting properties owned by Jeffrey Epstein; the clearest connections in public records involve Epstein correspondence with people w...

Oct 21, 2025

How did the Obama administration respond to criticism of civilian casualties from drone strikes?

The Obama administration responded to criticism of civilian casualties from drone strikes by releasing official casualty estimates and some policy explanations while continuing contested practices lik...

Nov 14, 2025

Did Obama administration officials interact with Jeffrey Epstein?

Documents released by the House Oversight Committee and reporting show Jeffrey Epstein exchanged emails with at least one Obama White House official — former White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler — and...

Oct 27, 2025

How much did the Obama White House renovations cost taxpayers in 2009?

A widely circulated figure — that the Obama White House spent roughly in 2009 — mixes two separate facts and is therefore misleading: Congress approved a roughly in 2008 that was carried out as the bu...

Jan 10, 2026

Did Obama deploy ICE during his presidency?

Yes — the Obama administration used and expanded U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as its principal interior immigration-enforcement agency, directing it to arrest, detain and remove nonc...

Jan 3, 2026

What legal authority did President Obama cite for ordering drone strikes without congressional approval?

The Obama administration justified most overseas drone strikes by leaning on two domestic legal threads: the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) as congressional authorization for acti...

Dec 21, 2025

What specific Epstein-related documents did the Obama administration possess or review?

Public reporting does not support a claim that the Obama White House compiled a unique, hidden “Epstein file”; available sources show the principal federal investigations into Jeffrey Epstein predated...

Dec 17, 2025

Did private funding for the Obama White House require disclosure or approval, and who approved it?

Available reporting shows no authoritative source in the provided set saying the Obama White House spent taxpayer funds specifically on a new basketball court or similar small recreational upgrades; m...

Dec 17, 2025

Did any ethics rules apply to private funding for White House projects during the Obama years?

Federal ethics rules did apply to private funding and outside interactions during the Obama years: the Administration issued an Executive Order—the “Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel”—t...

Dec 5, 2025

Which notable individuals received pardons or commutations from Barack Obama and why?

Barack Obama issued roughly 1,927 acts of clemency during his presidency — including about 1,715 commutations (many of them for lengthy drug sentences) and 212 pardons — and used commutations far more...

Nov 27, 2025

Are there records or schedules of White House recreational facility usage during Obama's administration?

There are public visitor-record disclosures from the Obama White House that were posted online as part of a transparency effort , and multiple reporting threads note that the existing White House tenn...

Nov 26, 2025

Which presidents held major public ceremonies on the South Lawn and what were the dates of those events?

Presidents have used the South Lawn for recurring public ceremonies (notably the annual Easter Egg Roll since 1878) and for special one‑day festivals and celebrations such as “South by South Lawn” (Oc...

Nov 24, 2025

How did the Supreme Court rule on the constitutionality of Obama's immigration executive actions in 2016?

The Supreme Court in United States v. Texas ended in an equally divided 4–4 tie on June 23, 2016, which left the lower-court injunction blocking President Obama’s DAPA program and the planned DACA exp...