claim: president obama has spent over $2 million in legal fees defending lawsuits about his birth certificate.
author: donald trump
evidence_1: aug 19, 2015 ... i don't know.” todd: “we're talking about the birth certificates.” trump: “… i mean  his college records. he spent $4 million in legal fees to make sure that nobody  ever saw” them. — exchange during an interview on nbc's “meet the press,” aug . 17, 2015. versions of this rumor — that president obama spent ...
evidence_2: president obama has spent over $2 million in legal fees defending lawsuits  about his birth certificate. — politifact national on tuesday, april 12th, 2011.  false. keep listening to tape, there's an immediate correction. donald trump ·  says president obama's "grandmother in kenya said he was born in kenya and  she was ...
evidence_3: apr 12, 2011 ... ... he show his birth certificate? why has he spent over $2 million in legal fees to  keep this quiet and to keep this silent?” — donald trump, april 10, 2011. “more  power to him [trump]. he's not just throwing stones from the sidelines, he's  digging in, he's paying for researchers to find out why president obama ...
evidence_4: apr 12, 2011 ... one of the most persistent things you hear from birthers is the allegation that  president obama has spent millions of dollars trying to keep his birth. ... we  agree that some amount of money was spent in legal fees related to those  lawsuits — the letter from bauer to the plaintiff is an example of that. but, while ...
evidence_5: oct 27, 2009 ... president obama has paid nearly $1.7 million to his top eligibility lawyer since  the election. ... john mccain's legal consulting fees, from jan. ... and obama's  organizing for america – is the same washington, d.c., lawyer who defended  president obama in lawsuits challenging his eligibility to be president.