>PUBLISHED 5 HOURS AGO
>Former first lady Michelle Obama said she will “never forgive” President Donald Trump for spreading the so-called birther conspiracy theory with “reckless innuendos” that she said threatened her family’s safety.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/09/michelle-obama-ill-never-forgive-trump-for-birther-conspiracy-theory.html
>By BEN SMITH and BYRON TAU 04/22/2011
>Birtherism: Where it all began
>The answer lies in Democratic, not Republican politics, and in the bitter, exhausting spring of 2008. At the time, the Democratic presidential primary was slipping away from Hillary Clinton and some of her most passionate supporters grasped for something, anything that would deal a final reversal to Barack Obama.
>That theory first emerged in the spring of 2008, as Clinton supporters circulated an anonymous email questioning Obama’s citizenship.
>“Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy. She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth,” asserted one chain email that surfaced on the urban legend site Snopes.com in April 2008.
https://www.politico.com/story/2011/04/birtherism-where-it-all-began-053563
Video is of Ben Smith being interviewed about this on MSNBC