President Barack Obama makes his first trip as president to Kenya this weekend. Kenya is of course where president Obama’s father was born. President Obama was not born there; he was born in Hawaii. He released his birth certificate to prove that, and Hawaiian officials have confirmed it.
Despite that, there have been many in this country who have thought that President Obama was born in Kenya, and was therefore ineligible to be president. Among them is the Republican presidential candidate currently leading the polls: Donald Trump.
Today, Trump is not focusing on the issue, but when asked about it, he still expresses doubts about where the president was born. Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson takes a look at this issue with Karen Tumulty, national political corespondent for The Washington Post.
Guest
- Karen Tumulty, national political correspondent for The Washington Post. She tweets @ktumulty.
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