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Several of the many varying and often contradictory threads of the conspiracy theory centered on Obama's records from Columbia, where he completed his bachelor's degree in 1983. Trump's desire for these records would likely have had its roots in his obsession with Obama's birth certificate, and the false conspiracy theory that Obama was born outside the U.S. At the end of the meeting, O'Keefe wrote, "Trump shook my hand, encouraged me to keep up the good work, and half-whispered, 'Do Columbia.'" O'Keefe said he explained to Trump that the request did not fall into his "line of work," and that he considered himself and his colleagues to be journalists, not "private eyes."īut that didn't seem to deter Trump.
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