Trump long perpetuated the birther conspiracy against Barack Obama, which held that the former President was not born in the United States. In 2011, Trump claimed that he had dispatched investigators during an interview with NBC’s Today Show.
Trump explained, “I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they’re finding.” There has yet to be any word on what his investigators found.
President Obama poked fun at Trump’s claims when he attended the 2011 Correspondent’s Dinner after releasing his long-form birth certificate.
In 2020, Trump’s then-former personal attorney Michael Cohen said Trump lied about dispatching investigators.
The Atlantic – What Donald Trump’s Birther Investigators Will Find in Hawaii
The Week – Michael Cohen says Trump lied about sending investigators to Hawaii to look into Obama’s birth certificate
