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2024-04-27 01:49:52 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: B3AB7BF564286143EB18298D681446B7B5D9D0A2CBB444F8A904A56C4C7AF12E
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This is not Barack Obama's Student ID. The student ID number matches that of Thomas Lugert, who attended the American Language Program at Columbia during the summer of 1998: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2333806/fact-check-is-this-obamas-id/ https://web.archive.org/web/20151106153710/http://lugert-online.de/Columbia_University/columbia_university.html Obama's photo is from 1999: https://www.gettyimages.dk/detail/news-photo/then-illinois-state-senator-barack-obama-shown-in-a-1999-news-photo/112892700
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