Donald Trump was wise not to take the advice of some of his staff and political allies by apologizing to Barack Obama for questioning his eligibility for the presidency and, yes, even whether he was born in the U.S.

Trump was hardly the first “birther.” Neither was I. Nor was my colleague Jerome Corsi. And neither was Hillary Clinton.

That honor belongs to one person and one person alone – Barack Obama.

Obama went to extreme lengths to conceal his past. And, indeed, if he was born in the U.S. and was eligible to serve as president, he certainly did his best to create the mystery that led to the question being asked.

Years earlier, he billed himself as having been born in Kenya.

Maybe he thought it was a sexy way to sell books, get a foreign student scholarship, attract women – who knows?

But it’s a fact that he boasted about it. (See the image of his bio used by his literary agent to get a contract for his first book.)

Would that not be reason enough to investigate his background?

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Then Obama refused to release his birth certificate during his entire first term in office, despite the controversy he had ignited years earlier.

It was eventually released for two reasons:

WND Books published “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” by Jerome Corsi and it went to No. 1 on Amazon, while Donald Trump pounded Obama, demanding release.

In other words, Trump was one of the primary forces behind Obama’s capitulation. (Parenthetically, I will add that the document has never been authenticated as genuine.)

I won’t go into the voluminous amount of evidence of a cover-up, or all the valid reasons for questioning not only where Obama was born, but whether he had even retained citizenship when he and his mother left the country to move to Indonesia and enroll him in a Muslim school there over the objections of U.S. immigration officials concerned, at the time, about the status of his citizenship status.

I won’t go into his missing college records, which might shed light on whether Obama had claimed to be a foreign student, as many at Columbia assumed.

I won’t go into the fact that his supposed “birth hospital” in Hawaii steadfastly refused to acknowledge publicly that simple fact.

Personally, I thought it was important to establish that Obama met the minimal constitutional litmus test for eligibility. For that I was vilified, called a racist, lampooned, besmirched, called a conspiracy theorist and worse.

During all that time, I never drew any conclusions about his birthplace – just that there were questions that needed to be answered.

It’s worth recalling that in the 2008 election, the only “birther” issue to be raised by any media was the question of John McCain’s eligibility. That one was driven home by the New York Times and had to be settled by a U.S. Senate investigation and unanimous vote that he was.

So, when I watch the TV talking heads exchanging ignorances on this subject, pardon me if I simply turn off the tube in disgust.

Excuse me for not answering at least a dozen requests for interviews from the global media last week when Trump admitted Obama was born in the U.S. – something he actually has no evidence to conclude with any certainty.

Instead, I prefer to thank Trump for standing up courageously in 2010 to force the issue. He had nothing to gain at the time. But, it probably led directly to his eventual nomination by the Republican Party for the presidency in 2016.

And that’s the real story of who the first “birther” really was. It was Barack Hussein Obama.

Donald Trump says Hillary was the first birther in 2008, but that isn’t quite accurate. Barack Obama was actually the first birther 25 years ago in 1991.

Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii’

Obama continued to allow others to promote him as born in Kenya until sometime in April, 2007 when his literary agents changed his official birthplace to Hawaii. On April 3, 2007, Obama was still officially born in Kenya.

Dystel & Goderich Literary Management :: Client List

But by April 21, 2007 he was switched to being born in Hawaii.

Dystel & Goderich Literary Management :: Client List

Two weeks later he announced his candidacy for president, which required that he was born in the US.

Obama declares he’s running for president – CNN.com

African newspapers continued to promote Obama as born in Kenya as late as election day 2008.

Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate

Nigerian Observer Online Edition

Hillary says you are a racist if you talk about Obama’s birther lies or her birther lies.

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• LindaJoyAdams

  I/71 his grandmother went into a racist tirade to stop me from saying anything to Obama about his birth in Topeka ks . HE WAS NEVER TO BE TOLD THE TRUTH SHE WAS A HARD WOMAN TO LIKE AND SHE MEANT IT
  he had just arrived from Indonesia and was using the name Barry Soetoro and she said he was getting confused and no one every did. I could not get passed Valorie Jarrett and had not had close contact over the years to know a private phone number etc. SO IT WAS HIS GRANDMOTHER WHO WAS the first birther who lied to him She was the one who almost got the birth certified in Hawaii but got caught… SHE IS THE ONE WITH NO KNOWN BIO BEFORE 1943 as my first cousin Daniel Wayne Pope took the id of the older Stanley Dunham to go to WWII at age 14 as they were pregnant if one counts the months. The three of them take the names of the older Stanley Dunham daily and I one does not think two families and same names everyone will be as confused as Obama was made to be his whole life on this. I did not know of all of this before 11/08 and after wards when I got on line as a serious blogger to warn of the COUP of 2002 where no real govt in charge of the USA by act of congress in 12/08 I began to find out and too late to contact him. 9/14/12 Kris Kobach;s staff in Ks stopped the search for his record at Barry Soetoro so he has had several names. Birth father Jim T Parks and source is his parents, barring DNA then arranged marriage to Obama sr 6/61 in Topeka and my dad married them Rev Tracy Hardy and birth and news was under Obama as a typed of adoption where husband is the father unless formally contested Info is on line about some mess getting divorced etc in Hawaii and then Barry Soetoro using the Ks Birth certificate. Plus online is another adoption unofficial presumably another indonesian 4 fathers by the time he was 9….Linda Joy Adams

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