Donald Trump has finally admitted that “President Barack Obama was born in the United States,” after years of making arrogant claims to the contrary.
“President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period,” Trump said. “Now, we all want to get back to making America strong and great again,” he unveiled his new hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington.
Five years ago,Trump s claim that Obama America’s first African-American president, was not born in the United Stattes got him much media attention, spreading a “birthirism controveresy.”
As he went back on his claim on Friday, the Republican candidate also accused his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton of having first raised questions about Obama’s birthplace during the 2008 Democratic primary.
“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy,” Trump said. “I finished it.”
But news stories in the mainstream media called Trump’s claim as false.
However, analysts recall that during the 2008 Democratic contest, Clinton’s senior strategist at one point pondered, in an internal memo that was later leaked, the ways in which Obama’s personal background differed from many Americans.
Yet, neither Hillary Clinton nor her campaign ever publicly questioned Obama’s citizenship or birthplace, in Hawaii.
Reacting to Trump’s reversal of his claim, Clinton said her rival’s statement 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.”
Meanwhile, President Obama rejected Trump’s criticism Friday. “I was pretty confident about where I was born,” he joked in a chat with reporters.
What about Trump’s other claims with regard to Latinos and American Muslims? When will he climb down from the un-American rhetoric?
So True. Good story. This is not first or only case he did, he also did same in case of khizr khan case, where first he criticize parents of American muslim soldier died in Iraq and later changed his statement. I thiink criticizing others is common in politics during elections.