claimed he sent investigators to Hawaii to prove Obama wasn’t born in the United States?

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

claimed that climate change was a Chinese-sponsored hoax?

Trump has made various similar remarks about climate change. After becoming President, he vacillated on the issue, going between claiming that cold snaps disprove global warming, while also alleging that his administration had done much to combat climate change.

Trump has also claimed that windmills cause cancer, and withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement. He has dismissed UN climate reports.

His administration has rolled back several regulations, including for endangered species, offshore rigs, and coal pollution.

The Department of Defense has listed climate change as a national security threat since before Trump’s presidency. It has not commented on the health risk of windmills.

Forbes – Trump’s Climate Denial Is A National Security Threat
Time – Donald Trump Called Climate Change a Hoax. Now He’s Awkwardly Boasting About Fighting It
US Department of Defense – DoD Releases Report on Security Implications of Climate Change

claimed that exercise is detrimental because it depletes the body’s finite energy?

The belief has been long documented, and Trump’s reiterated his belief on the 2016 campaign trail:

All my friends who work out all the time, they’re going for knee replacements, hip replacements — they’re a disaster. That’s exercise.

As far as modern medical science has been able to determine, this is untrue.

The New York Times – Donald Trump is Not Going Anywhere
The Washington Post – Trump thinks that exercising too much uses up the body’s finite energy
Business Insider – Trump believes some amazingly false things about exercise
The New Yorker – How Trump Could Get Fired

called asbestos poisoning a mob-led conspiracy?

In a book published in 1997, Trump claimed that asbestos is “100 percent safe, once applied.” He went on to explain, “I believe that the movement against asbestos was led by the mob, because it was often mob-related companies that would do the asbestos removal.” In 2018, his EPA announced that it would only evaluate new uses of asbestos and no longer consider the risks of asbestos already in the environment.

Newsweek – Donald Trump called asbestos poisoning a mob-led conspiracy, now his EPA wouldn’t evaluate asbestos already in homes.
The New York Times – The Chemical Industry Scores a Big Win at the E.P.A.

continued to assert the guilt of the Central Park Five after they were exonerated by DNA evidence?

In 1989, a woman was raped and beaten in Central Park, and five black and Hispanic boys were arrested. Trump took out four full page advertisements calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty against the group who became known as the Central Park Five.

Trump Will Not Apologize for Calling for Death Penalty Over ...

In 2002, a convicted murder and rapist confessed to the crime, and DNA evidence proved him to be the perpetrator while the Central Park Five were exonerated. Still, Trump has continued to claim that the Central Park Five were guilty.

The New York Times – Trump Will Not Apologize for Calling for Death Penalty Over Central Park Five
USA Today – ‘They admitted their guilt’: 30 years of Trump’s comments about the Central Park Five
The Week – Donald Trump’s 30-year crusade against the Central Park Five

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