Donald Trump's campaign
organization on Thursday night
admitted that president Barack
Obama was indeed born in the U.S
amid criticism of Trump's repeated
refusals to admit Obama was born
in America.
The Republican candidate had
been a leader of the "birther"
movement that questioned
Hawaii-born Mr Obama's
citizenship. Trump was asked in an
interview with The Washington
Post that was published before the
statement was released if he
thought Obama was born in the U.S.
“I’ll answer that question at the
right time,” Trump said. “I just
don’t want to answer it yet.”
Hillary Clinton, who returned to the
campaign trail Thursday after being
diagnosed with pneumonia, then
attacked Trump for his continued
refusal to admit the president's
birthplace.
"Today he did it again. He was
asked one more time where was
President Obama born and he still
wouldn't say Hawaii. He still
wouldn't say America," Clinton said
at the Congressional Hispanic
Caucus Institute dinner Thursday
night.
"This man wants to be our next
president? When will we stop this
ugliness, this bigotry?," she asked.
Trump's campaign team then fired
back at Clinton, admitting that
Obama was born in the U.S but also
claiming that Clinton in 2008 was
actually the one who hatched the
theory that the president was born
on foreign soil.
"Hillary Clinton’s campaign first
raised this issue to smear then-
candidate Barack Obama in her
very nasty, failed 2008 campaign for
President," Trump's campaign
statement said.
"As usual, however, Hillary Clinton
was too weak to get an answer."
"Mr. Trump did a great service to
the President and the country by
bringing closure to the issue that
Hillary Clinton and her team first
raised," the campaign statement
continues. "Inarguably, Donald J.
Trump is a closer.
''Having successfully obtained
President Obama’s birth certificate
when others could not, Mr. Trump
believes that President Obama was
born in the United States."

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