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Birther 'investigators in Hawaii' who found something unbelievable
Never delivered“I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding.”
- Promised
- , NBC 'Today' show interview with Meredith Vieira
- Stated deadline
- “imminently / 'they cannot believe what they're finding'” → April 21, 2011
- Overdue by
- 15 years, 5 months as of September 22, 2026
- Re-promised
- 3 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Transparency & records
- Era
- Before politics
What happened
Trump said he had dispatched private investigators to Honolulu who were about to reveal shocking findings about Barack Obama's birth certificate. Obama released his long-form birth certificate on April 27, 2011, and no findings were ever produced. Hawaii's state registrar said he had no record of Trump or any representative requesting the records, and in 2021 Michael Cohen said on MSNBC that Trump had simply made the investigators up.