09:28 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThe White House has released President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, in response to persistent rumours he was not born in the US.<\/p>\n
Mr Obama had previously released an official “certification of live birth” showing he was born in Hawaii.<\/p>\n
But fringe “birther” theorists have insisted Mr Obama was actually born in his father’s native Kenya, making him ineligible to be president.<\/p>\n
Recently potential Republican candidate Donald Trump has revived the rumour.<\/p>\n
“The president believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn’t good for the country,” White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“It may have been good politics and good TV, but it was bad for the American people and distracting from the many challenges we face as a country.”<\/p>\n
Mr Obama was scheduled to make a statement at 0945 local time (1345 GMT).<\/p>\n
The release of Mr Obama’s long form birth certificate, which had been stored in a vault in Hawaii since his birth in August 1961, comes after years of speculation among conspiracy-minded conservatives.<\/p>\n
The “birther” conspiracy held that Mr Obama was born in Kenya or in Indonesia, where he lived as a child, or that the birth certificate revealed other unwholesome information about the president.<\/p>\n
During the 2008 presidential campaign Mr Obama released a computer print-out of the birth certificate information that is recognised as an official record of his birth, and Hawaiian public health officials vouched for its authenticity.<\/p>\n
But the move did little to quell the birthers, even as most mainstream Republicans have sought to quash the movement, calling it a distraction from substantive policy disagreements.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the White House released copies of the original birth certificate, with a stamp indicating it was received from Hawaiian officials on Monday.<\/p>\n
It shows Barack Hussein Obama II was born 4 August 1961 at Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, to Barack Hussein Obama, a 25-year-old student, and Stanley Ann Dunham, 18, and includes the signature of the attending physician.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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