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.
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