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In February 2017, the The Last Line of Defense website published an article reporting that Michelle and Barack Obama had filed for divorce in Illinois: We searched the Cook County database for docket D4610968L86 and came up empty-handed, and this story was reported nowhere but on the The Last Line of Defense web site, even though it would have been covered by multiple news outlets around the world were there anything to it. Of course there was no truth in this article, which originated with The Last Line of Defense, part of a network of junk news sites that publish political misinformation under the guise of proffering satire. This article was full of outlandish, baseless, and unbelievable aspects, asserting that a DNA test proved Barack Obama wasn't the biological father of Sasha and Malia, that the Obama children were the product of genetic engineering, that Malia was a talented dulcimer musician (but her talents were being kept secret), that Michelle Obama had announced a 2020 presidential bid, and that Sasha made millions of dollars playing Texas Hold 'Em poker. According to a tweet Barack sent on Valentine's Day around the same time the fake article was published, the former First Couple were still happily married after 28 years:
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