Jesse Watters Revives Disproven Birther Conspiracy Before Obama's DNC Speech
Fox News host questions Obama's citizenship, echoing long-debunked claims just hours before former president's address.
- Watters calls Obama the 'godfather' of the Democratic Party and alleges interference in upcoming election.
- Co-hosts joke about sending a producer to investigate Obama's birth certificate in Hawaii and Kenya.
- Birtherism, the false claim that Obama was not born in the U.S., has been debunked multiple times.
- Trump originally popularized the birther conspiracy, which has persisted despite overwhelming evidence against it.
- Obama's birth documents were confirmed by the Hawaii Department of Health before the 2008 election.