Obama’s Birth Certificate Returns…But Why Now?

by Sharon Rondeau

(Jan. 5, 2024) — On December 31, 2023, seemingly out of nowhere, finance author Zach De Gregorio, founder of the subscription website WolvesandFinance.com, released a 26-minute video and blog post raising the question, “Whatever happened to Obama’s birth certificate?”

In the video, which is available without a subscription and titled, “PROOF Obama’s Birth Certificate is Fake,” De Gregorio summarized the June 2008 internet release of a “short-form” birth certificate image bearing the name “Barack Hussein Obama II”; the eventual release of a purported “long-form” birth certificate by the White House in April 2011; and some of the key points from the five-year criminal investigation authorized by then-Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joseph Arpaio into the origins of the long-form image.

The investigation, delegated to the MCSO’s “Cold Case Posse” led by former private investigator and former police detective Michael Zullo, began in August 2011 and concluded on December 15, 2016 with a third and final press conference detailing investigators’ conclusion, and that of two forensic analysts, that the long-form image is a “computer-generated forgery.”

To The Post & Email’s knowledge, De Gregorio is a newcomer to the subject of Obama’s birth certificate. A self-identified accountant, a brief perusal of his YouTube channel shows he has produced 419 videos over a period of months on political issues garnering between 4,200 and 246,000 views each.  As of publication time late Friday afternoon, the “birth certificate” video has 45,000 views.

At 3:32 in the subject video, in speaking about the “short-form” birth certificate image first published by The Daily KOS on June 12, 2008, De Gregorio remarked, “…but wait a minute; the short-form certificate has been changed. This was not the same one they released before.  Do you remember?  It was on the green security paper.  Why would they change the file for the short-form birth certificate?”

On Wednesday, after contacting De Gregorio for comment, The Post & Email spoke with Zullo about De Gregorio’s subject video, beginning with the question of whether he is acquainted with him, to which Zullo responded, “No, I don’t know him at all.”

We asked Zullo about De Gregorio’s characterization of a “change” having been made to the image, to which Zullo replied, “I have no direct knowledge that they changed the file. What I do know is it’s easy to turn the background colors off when you put it into a digital program.  That’s not something that’s overly concerning to me.  When we put the Obama document in, we were taking the background color and turning it on and off.  I don’t think there’s any significance with the short-form; it’s the long-form that matters.”

Beginning at 5:36, De Gregorio shifted to discussing Obama’s purported Social Security number, which he characterized as “strange.”  “We know his Social Security number because it’s on his tax forms,” De Gregorio said, echoing the claim made in 2009 by private investigator Susan Daniels and the late former private investigator Neil Sankey.

In a June 2023 editorial published at American Thinker, Daniels wrote, in part:

Barack Obama has used a stolen Social Security number most of his adult life.  The one he uses was issued on March 28, 1977 to someone living in Connecticut, born in 1890, now long deceased.  Obama was fifteen years old that day, living in Hawaii and playing on the junior varsity basketball team at Punahou.  I uncovered the SSN information and include it in my memoir, The Rubbish Hauler’s Wife versus Barack Obama…

Obama is a felon — plain and simple. He should have a Hawaiian Social Security number like his half-sister, Maya, starting with the numbers 575 or 576. He claimed he worked at Baskin-Robbins when he was fifteen. It would have required a Social Security number. Instead, Obama has a number starting with 042, used for the exclusive use of CT residents, and which appeared on his 2009 tax return while he was president. Someone forgot to remove the number.

The Post & Email‘s exclusive 2013 interview with Daniels is here.

“Now you can take any Social Security number and figure out where it was issued,” De Gregorio continued at 6:27. “Obama’s Social Security number is from a batch that was issued in Connecticut in 1977.  That was the year Obama was 15 years old and living in Hawaii.  How in the world could Obama get a Connecticut Social Security number when he never lived in Connecticut?”

Without publishing the entire number, De Gregorio revealed the last four numbers as “4425,” coinciding with Sankey and Daniels’s reports.

Two months after the release of Obama’s “long-form” birth certificate, on June 25, 2011, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced it had begun “randomizing” the assignment of numbers nationwide.  “The SSA eliminated the geographical significance of the first three digits of the SSN, referred to as the area number, by no longer allocating the area numbers for assignment to individuals in specific states,” the agency explained of the new policy. “The significance of the highest group number (the fourth and fifth digits of the SSN) for validation purposes was eliminated. Randomization also introduced previously unassigned area numbers for assignment excluding area numbers 000, 666 and 900-999.”

Interestingly, approximately two weeks previous to De Gregorio’s video, another finance entity, WallStreetApes.com, posted on “X”:

Full 10 Min Report, Experts CONFIRM Barack Obama Birth Certificate is FAKE

The post contains a partial transcript, with some errors, of a ten-minute segment from the final December 15, 2016 press conference during which Zullo released new information from the long-running birth-certificate probe revealing “nine points of forgery” discovered in the image.

“They COULD NOT clear the document. Much more info in this video if you watch it all,” WSA concluded its post.

“Did your investigation ever confirm that the Social Security number ending in ‘4425’ belongs to Obama?” we asked Zullo.

“We didn’t go anywhere near the Social Security number validation for a number of reasons,” Zullo responded.  “To your point, though, about the tax returns, where the Social Security number is displayed, those tax returns did prove to have gone through the 7655 Xerox copier, with the same operating software and believed to be the same copier that the birth certificate – the phony birth certificate — went through at the White House. As far as the Social Security number, we stayed away from it: we knew that number would have been flagged by the government if we tried to access information through law enforcement databases. All the work that was done on the Social Security number by others, while it’s absolutely intriguing, is unverifiable.  We did attempt verification with the Social Security office; however, they would not verify it because it is assigned to a living individual, so there was no place to go on that. That is something easily done by federal authorities had they had the fortitude to take up the issue, but obviously now, in light of everything, we know why they didn’t.  The work that was done by others was conducted through public databases or private-investigation databases which have disclaimers that you must verify the information; it may not be accurate. This fact just complicated issues.

“When you said, ‘We know why the federal authorities didn’t investigate,’ what did you mean?” we asked.

“If you go back and start to look at the time frame when Sheriff Arpaio commissioned the birth certificate investigation in late 2011, there was no real knowledge or understanding of the Deep State network or the powers that be involved which are basically thwarting the rule of law. They didn’t take up this issue because they didn’t want this issue exposed and could claim ignorance. They didn’t want to find out the truth; they already knew the truth.  It was also relayed to me during the investigation by different sources that it was an ‘open secret’ in the intelligence agencies that Obama was not born in this country and that the birth certificate was manufactured. I’ve heard that repeatedly from people of authority.” 

“I remember you told Carl Gallups that some years back,” we said.

“It has to do with the Deep State actors; just look what’s going on with Trump. If you go back in the birth certificate timeline, that was their first foray into mass gaslighting the entire nation on a scale never seen before: effectively reporting on information, coordinating with once-trusted news outlets and reporters coming out and using declarative words such as ‘debunked’ and pejoratives such as “birther” and “birtherism” when there was no factual evidence they had ‘debunked’ anything of the work product we created.  They just pick up a moniker and run with it as if it’s fact, repeatedly stating the claims across the news spectrum as fact.

“You can look to the J6 Committee now and realize they’ve done the same thing. Look at how they are lambasting and falsely labeling President Trump, twisting evidence and omitting information.  They just say something and expect you to believe it as fact, and a majority of the gullible public will never challenge them. They perfected this using the birth certificate narrative; that was a controlled narrative.” 

In early 2011, then-businessman Donald J. Trump began publicly questioning Obama’s constitutional eligibility to serve, even as Obama sought a second term in the White House. Trump’s objection, he stated, was that Obama had not released a “long-form” birth certificate proving he was born in the United States and therefore presumably eligible as a “natural born Citizen.”

Following the White House’s release of the “long-form” image, Trump expressed doubt as to its authenticity, garnering immediate media pushback.

“Some people say that was not his birth certificate,” Trump told ABC News‘s Jonathan Karl in August 2013. “Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t. I’m saying I don’t know. Nobody knows.”

In a striking turn to the interview, Zullo continued:

I’m going to go one step farther. The long-form birth certificate was obviously manufactured. They went painstakingly through the process of not only manufacturing it but running it through “Preview,” which destroyed the metadata of the electronic file, but they didn’t flatten the document.  That troubled me, and I was always asking myself, ‘Why would they make such a drastic mistake?’ 

I’ve always had a theory – it’s not proved, just a theory — that the long-form birth certificate was utilized as a “control” document in the event Obama, who may not have been born in this country and therefore would not be eligible to be president, it is very possible the very people who put him in power retained leverage, had he not done the bidding of those people. They could then have used that document to literally “out” him and remove him.  So I always thought this could possibly be some type of blackmail or “control” document to fulfill the goals of the people who got him there.

“That begs the question, ‘Who put him power? Who controls the President of the United States and what he does?” The Post & Email asked.

Well, obviously, if you look at what’s transpiring now with the Biden administration and all the issues of money-laundering that’s going on with foreign entities, there has to be an internal group. I don’t know who they are, but it would have to be something along those lines. It would have to be people on the inside. Somebody somewhere is doing something. Just look at the voting; a blind man could see that there’s fraud there.

There was scuttlebutt prior to the Biden election that Michelle Obama was going to run for president, and if I go back to that, all of a sudden the birth certificate issue started to spring up again. Now, there’s scuttlebutt that she’s running again, and what happens?  These things on social media platforms are coming out on the birth certificate. Is it possible that those are warning shots of “We don’t want her to run, and if that happens, we’re going to out him?”

“Another thing Zach said was that birth certificates are ‘created on a typewriter,’” we observed. “To your knowledge, is that true today?”

“No, the short-form was electronic, and now everything is electronic. But that was not the case in 1961.”

“At 13:30 in the video, Zach said the half-inch seal on the birth certificate image is ‘too small.’  Do remember saying that?”

“I don’t recall saying that, but I know that the seal was always a question for us and we don’t believe it to be legitimate,” Zullo replied.

He then told us:

The short-form birth certificate was produced electronically, but they get printed onto safety paper.  The perilous dynamic for the long-form is that in 1961, it would have had to have been typewritten, and that’s when you use the comparison to the Nordykes’. In the typewritten documents, which were presumably typed by the same clerk or even in the same typing pool with the same typewriters, you can see the different spaces because they’re done by hand, and the carriage would have had to move by hand.  So it makes the 1961 birth certificate for Obama that much more difficult to create today, and that’s where the Ah’Nee birth certificate played a critical role because it would be impossible to get documents created either 15 years or 15 days apart, however you want to look at it, to be typewritten and have the same spacing in that word group as another typewritten  document.

Zullo then observed that both De Gregorio’s video and the WSA “X” post with the clip of his press conference remarks “are both finance feeds.”  “Is somebody sending a message?” he asked rhetorically. “That’s my question today. You wouldn’t think this topic would be prominent with anyone investing in stock unless Wall Street is trying to send a message. That goes back to my theory, which I can talk about now because the investigation is over, that it goes back to some type of ‘control’ document. There’s no way you’re going to get around the fact that that’s a manufactured certificate. Our experts proved that.  There’s no way you’re going to get around the fact that the governor of Hawaii could not find the certificate, and there’s no way you’re going to get around the fact that he came right out later and said, ‘Oh, it was in the archives; it wasn’t in the book it was supposed to be in.’ There’s no way you can get around the fact that Alvin Onaka didn’t want to talk to anybody.  There’s no way you can get around the fact that Alvin Onaka, a year after it was reported not to be found, all of a sudden, in an unrelated meeting, cites the page and volume number that it’s in.  You can’t escape the fact that Alvin Onaka took possession of that book and reportedly locked it away in a file cabinet. So all of a sudden, now it appears in a bound volume? (p. 32, bottom left) You can’t escape the fact that we were told by former CIA officers that they were going to do exactly that:  that the book was going to be taken off the shelves and locked in a closet or in a vault away from anyone’s access. And lo and behold, mysteriously now we have it in the book.  There’s no way you can get around everybody on the planet saying Obama produced a birth certificate when at his very own presser, a reporter was saying, ‘But you never showed us the certificate.’ You can’t get around the fact that he never took possession of it and held it up and said, ‘This is mine.’

“You start putting all these things together, and it is the same scenario today: you know there’s voter fraud, but you know what?  There isn’t, because the media says so.  That’s out of the same playbook.”