One entry in a record in office

Donald Trump: Wrote on Twitter that an extremely credible source had told him Obama's birth certificate was a fraud, and suggested as late as 2014 that Obama's college records would show a different birthplace. Fact-checkers found no evidence for any of it.

Statement · 2012

StatementFiled as

Correct this page · hello@crackedbuckeye.com

What this is

This is one of 67 dated entries in Donald Trump's record in office on this site, filed as a statement dated 2012. The sentence above is the entry as this site states it; anyone else's reading of it is listed below in their words.

Every field this record holds

The entry as it is stored, field by field. Nothing here is computed.

Date
2012
Kind
statement
What
Wrote on Twitter that an extremely credible source had told him Obama's birth certificate was a fraud, and suggested as late as 2014 that Obama's college records would show a different birthplace. Fact-checkers found no evidence for any of it.

Where this appears

The pages and figures this entry is drawn in.

Sources

Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.

  1. https://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/09/politics/donald-trump-birther/index.html
  2. https://www.factcheck.org/2016/09/trump-on-birtherism-wrong-and-wrong/

Cite and data

Cite this page as:

Cracked Buckeye, "Donald Trump: Wrote on Twitter that an extremely credible source had told him Obama's birth certificate was a fraud, and suggested as late as 2014 that Obama's college records would show a different birthplace. Fact-checkers found no evidence for any of it.", https://crackedbuckeye.com/people/donald-trump/record/2012-wrote-on-twitter-that/, built 2026-11-03, accessed [date].

How to cite · Report a correction · Built 2026-11-03