Trump acknowledges Obama was born in the U.S.

Trump acknowledges Obama was born in the U.S.. September. 18, 2016 08:03. by 워싱턴=이승헌, 파리=동정민특파원 특파원ddr@donga.com,ditto@donga.com. Donald Trump (see photo), the Republican presidential candidate, suddenly acknowledged that U.S. President Barack Obama was born in the U.S. In 2011, he said in an interview with Fox News, “He (President Obama) has no birth certificate (proving that he was born in the U.S.). Maybe, it says he’s a Muslim.” He kept raising suspicions over his birth.

Trump said in an event featuring decorated veterans endorsing him at the Trump International Hotel, the old post office building, on Friday (local time), "Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. I finished it. You know what I mean. President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period."

The birther controversy was stirred by those who claimed that President Obama is not eligible to be the president of the U.S. because he was not born in the U.S. during the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaign. Trump agreed with them and raised suspicions for a while, but he suddenly blamed Hillary Clinton and argued that he is irrelevant.

Clinton criticized Trump for blaming her suddenly after igniting birther controversy. She said in a speech at the Black Women’s Agenda Symposium held in Washington on Friday, "Just yesterday, Trump again refused to say with his own words that the president was born in the United States," demanding Trump apologize to President Obama and U.S. citizens.