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9/11 conspiracy theories
Main article: 9/11 conspiracy theories

Corsi believes the official explanation of the 9/11 attacks on the World
Trade Center to be false. He said:

The fire, from jet fuel, does not burn hot enough to produce the
physical evidence that he�s produced. So when you�ve got science that the hypothesis doesn�t explain�evidence�then the hypothesis doesn�t stand
anymore. It doesn�t mean there�s a new hypothesis you�ve validated. It
just means the government�s explanation of the jet fuel fire is not a sufficient explanation to explain the evidence of these spheres�these microscopic spheres�that Steven Jones has proved existed within the
W.T.C. dust.[99][100][101]

In an interview with Alex Jones, Corsi discussed "the findings of Steven
Jones, physicist and hero of the 9/11 Truth movement who claims to have evidence that the World Trade Center towers collapsed due to explosives
inside the building, not just the planes hitting them, during the
attacks".[99] Corsi cited Jones's findings of microscopic forensic
evidence that seemingly negated the U.S. government hypothesis that the aircraft's jet fuel-fed heat alone was sufficiently hot to collapse the
steel superstructure of the buildings.

Corsi wrote Where's the Birth Certificate?, a book that questions Obama's American citizenship. Prior to its May 2011 release, the book enjoyed a buzz-building teaser article in the heavily trafficked Drudge Report
website, but Obama released his long-form birth certificate three weeks
before the book was published. Shortly after the book's publication,
Esquire issued a satirical report that the book had been recalled,[87]
which prompted Corsi to sue Esquire for damages of over $285 million.[88]
The lawsuit was dismissed in a United States district court in a decision stating that satire is protected by the First Amendment and noting,
"Having become such well-known proponents of one position on the issue, plaintiffs cannot complain that the very intensity of their advocacy also became part of the public debate. Those who speak with loud voices cannot
be surprised if they become part of the story."[89][90]

Corsi continued to cast doubt on Obama's birth certificate during a March
2019 CNN interview, telling Anderson Cooper, "I want to see the original
1961 birth records from Kenya, that'll settle it...the State of Hawaii
will not show those records to anyone.� Corsi's attorney, Larry Klayman, falsely asserted during the same interview, "the birth certificate uses
the word �African-American� in 1961.

Special Counsel investigation
Main article: Mueller special counsel investigation

In September 2018, Corsi was subpoenaed to testify in the Special Counsel investigation, reportedly for his contacts with Roger Stone.[27] Corsi
also turned over computer, phone, and email records.[28] The Office of
the Special Counsel reportedly has information suggesting Corsi possessed advance knowledge that WikiLeaks had obtained the hacked emails of John Podesta.[28] Corsi has denied that he had any advance knowledge of the
hack, or that he has had any communication with anyone involved in the hack.[28] Corsi announced on November 12, 2018, that he expected to be
indicted for perjury within days.[29][30] Eleven days later he confirmed
he had entered plea negotiations with Mueller prosecutors.[30] On
November 26, 2018, Corsi stated that he rejected the plea deal brought by
the Special Counsel to plead guilty to one count of perjury; he stated
that he rejected it because he did not willfully mislead anyone.[31][32]

Draft court documents, released in November, showed that two months
before WikiLeaks released emails stolen from the Clinton campaign, Corsi
sent emails to Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone informing him that
WikiLeaks was going to publish the emails in two "dumps", giving dates of
the planned releases and that the "impact planned" would be "very
damaging." Stone also sent Corsi an email directing him to contact Julian Assange "and get the pending (WikiLeaks) emails." Corsi told Mueller's investigators he ignored the direction, but investigators found he had
passed it to an associate in London, whom Corsi later identified as Ted Malloch, who had worked with the Trump campaign and been questioned by Mueller's investigators in April 2018.[33]

Corsi retained attorney Larry Klayman, who in December filed (on Corsi's behalf) a request for an investigation into the Special Counsel's tactics
[34] and a lawsuit alleging Mueller and other government actors violated Corsi's constitutional rights and leaked grand jury secrets;[35]

On January 25, 2019, Corsi confirmed that he is "Person 1" cited in the
federal indictment of Roger Stone and predicted that he won't face
charges. "Dr. Corsi has reviewed the indictment of Roger Stone which
references him as Person 1. The Stone Indictment does not accuse Dr.
Corsi of any wrongdoing. Dr. Corsi has fully cooperated with the Special Counsel and his prosecutors and testified truthfully to the grand jury,
as well as during interviews with them", Corsi said through his legal
counsel, Larry Klayman and David Gray.[36] On February 7, Corsi sued
Stone for defamation.[37]

In an April 21 article, The Washington Post reported Corsi's lawyer,
David Gray, asserting investigators were "dumbfounded" by Corsi's
inconsistent testimony, and Gray himself found some of it "concerning". Investigators ultimately decided, after extensive interviews of Corsi,
that (according to Gray), they could not "use any of this". Gray
attributed Corsi's shifting stories to a poor memory and his well-
established habit of picking "truthful facts woven in a way that you
don't have to worry about the things that are inconsistent". Corsi quotes himself as telling investigators: "Sometimes I can't tell if I remembered
or invented".[38]

In May, 2020, Corsi was caught accidentally emailing a Mueller
prosecutor, Aaron Zelinsky, about another case, showing Corsi personally
had his contact information in his email, and suggesting he had been
working with him directly. Corsi had been attempting to e-mail Vladimir Zelenko, who made exaggerated claims about hydroxychloroquine-antibiotic-
zinc cocktails and their alleged efficacy in treating COVID-19 that were
not supported by peer-reviewed evidence.[39]

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