Andy Martin

Anthony Robert Martin-Trigona, usually known as Andy Martin (born 1945), is an American perennial candidate who has pursued numerous litigations.The Nation, The Washington Post, and The New York Times identified him as the primary source of false rumors that then-presidential candidate Barack Obama was secretly a Muslim during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election (an allegation Martin had made as early as 2004). In a later interview with CNN, Martin explicitly abandoned this view and now asserts Obamas real father is not Barack Obama, Sr., but African American journalist Frank Marshall Davis.On October 17, 2008, Martin filed a lawsuit against the state of Hawaii calling for the public release of Barack Obamas birth certificate and other vital records. To counter conspiracy theories that Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States, the Obama campaign previously posted an image of his short-form birth certificate online. Martins lawsuit sought a copy of Sen. Obamas long-form birth certificate. The Hawaii Supreme Court later denied Martins request.

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