Was the "Obama Fraud Vault" showing $4.5 billion stolen from Obama's foundation released on Fox News live in December 2025? No, that's not true: Nearly identical stories claiming that Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, Jeanine Pirro, Greg Gutfeld, Sen. John Kennedy, and other conservative figures "just unleashed the Obama Fraud Vault on FOX live" were published by a network of websites and Facebook pages managed from Vietnam. There were no news articles about such an event and the stories contained verifiably false details.
One example of the claim appeared in a post (archived here) shared by the Freedom Times Facebook page on December 14, 2025. It opened:
CANDACE OWENS JUST UNLEASHED THE OBAMA FRAUD VAULT ON FOX LIVE: "$4.5 BILLION STOLEN FROM HIS FOUNDATION, OFFSHORE HELLHOLES, AND CHILDISH SECRETS SO SICK I'M HOLDING BACK - BUT WAIT FOR ME, BARACK!"She stormed the set, slammed a 1,200-page blood-red vault labeled "OBAMA FRAUD EMPIRE - $4.5 BILLION STOLEN" so hard the desk cracked, and let the Manhattan apocalypse loose.Voice booming like a rally nuke:"Barack Obama's 'foundation'? A $4.5 billion black hole.
This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Wed Dec 17 20:16:42 2025 UTC)
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of Facebook)
The post continued:
$1.1 billion raised since 2017--$300 million promised for Chicago kids? $1 million delivered, costs exploded to $850 million on taxpayers. $93 million in 'consulting fees' to bundlers' shells--zero deliverables. $184 million to Africa 'youth programs'--no kids, no photos, straight to Caymans. $470 million reserve fund? $1 million deposited, rest vapor. $3 million to Tides shells--while South Side families beg."
She flipped to the kill pages: offshore wires, unfulfilled pledges, $600 million on a marble palace amid donor fatigue.
"But wait, Barack--childish secrets so sick I'm holding back. Tantrums, obsessions, behaviors that'd make a toddler blush. The vault opens at dawn."
Fifty-three seconds of crypt silence. Hannity's coffee shattered. Raw feed to 212 million homes.
Owens slammed it shut like a guillotine:
"Your empire's crumbling, bloodsucker. America's coming for the rest."
Fox hit 212 million viewers. #OwensObamaVault exploded to 6.9 BILLION posts in 41 minutes.
Obama's team: "Fabricated smears." Owens' X: one vault photo-- "Smears? That's your $4.5B talking--gone."
The reckoning dawns. One vault. One storm. One nation roaring: Exposed."
The post links to an article (archived here) on a website that is filled with similar clickbait stories and covered with pop-up ads.
A Google News search (archived here) for the keywords "Obama fraud vault" returned no credible reports, only examples of the fake Facebook posts targeted in this fact check.
A search on Facebook for the phrase "UNLEASHED THE OBAMA FRAUD VAULT" (archived here) brought up results with almost exactly the same story but about different influencers and politicians, accompanied by very similar images showing them holding a sign that read "Obama is concealing horrific crimes. Do you want me to release classified documents Obama? Be honest.".
Lead Stories found posts naming:
- Candace Owens
- Ben Shapiro
- Jeanine Pirro
- Greg Gutfeld
- Sen. John Kennedy
- President Donald Trump
(Image source: Lead Stories montage of screenshots of Facebook)
Meta's transparency data, which you can find by clicking on the "about" link of a Facebook page, revealed that they were all administered from Vietnam.
The Vietnam connection is significant, since fact checkers, including Lead Stories, have identified a major source of AI-generated false stories coming from a single operation based in that Southeast Asian country. We have published at least 70 fact-check articles focused on this content.
Lead Stories has published a primer -- or a prebunk -- on how to identify these kinds of fake posts exported from Vietnam. It's titled Prebunk: Beware Of Fake Fan Pages Spreading False Stories About Your Favorite Celebrities -- How To Spot 'Viet Spam'
