Donald
Trump finally admitted Friday that “President Barack Obama was born in
the United States,” reversing himself on the issue that propelled him
into national politics five years ago.
Trump
sought to end his longstanding attempt to discredit the nation’s first
African-American president with just a few sentences tacked on at the
end as he unveiled his new hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington.
But the
issue isn’t likely to die down any time soon — especially as Trump
continues to falsely blame Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for
starting the “birtherism” controversy. Clinton said earlier Friday that
Trump’s acknowledgment of Obama’s birthplace doesn’t go far enough and
that he must also apologize.
“For five
years, he has led the birther movement to delegitimize our first black
president,” Clinton said at an event in Washington. “His campaign was
founded on this outrageous lie.”
Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961.
Trump offered no apologies for his
leading role in the birther movement and didn’t explain what drove him
to change his mind. The President dismissed Trump’s criticism Friday,
joking with reporters at the White House and saying, “I was pretty
confident about where I was born.”
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