As I do media to promote my new book, “Unmasking Obama: The Fight to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency,” I am inevitably asked the most basic of questions: Just where was Barack Obama born?
I have been asked that question before. In fact, in the spring of 2011, Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen called me out of the blue to ask that very question. I told Cohen I followed the birth certificate issue only from a distance and knew no more than anyone else.
For “Unmasking,” I understood, that answer would not do. 
The key to understanding the mystery is one overlooked fact: the decision by the Dunhams, Obama’s maternal grandparents, to abruptly pull up stakes in summer 1960 and moved from Seattle to Hawaii against daughter Ann’s will. Obama’s leading biographers tell different stories as to why the family moved, none detailed, none particularly convincing. I think I know why.
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