While Mr Trump has recovered ground against his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in recent opinion polls after revamping his campaign, the birther movement had angered black Americans, whose votes he has been seeking to court.
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Clinton ended her address by raising several controversial episodes from Trump’s campaign.
Asked in an interview with Irish TV, as reported by Buzzfeed, if he believes the president was born in the USA now finally after producing his long-form birth certificate, Trump said, “Well, I don’t know – did he do it?”
In his statement, Miller said, “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”.
Instead, Trump only praised his hotel, then turned the microphone over to a long string of retired military brass who slathered patriotic aphorisms on the businessman, who received five draft deferments in the 1960s. “I finished it, I finished it”, Trump said.
The White House released Obama’s birth certificate in April 2011 to put an end to the conspiracy theories, but over the years Trump still voiced doubt about the document’s authenticity. The memo did urge Clinton to raise questions about Obama based on his childhood years in Indonesia. Imagine a person who looks at someone who doesn’t look like him, and thinks that person is not an American.
Trump’s birther history became a major issue again on Thursday after Trump declined to answer a question from the Washington Post about whether he still believed Obama was not a USA citizen.
“I’ll answer that question at the right time”, Trump told the Post Thursday. “I really, really, really want to elect Hillary Clinton”. On Friday morning, he plainly told Fox Business Channel that he was dragging the issue out because of the press it generated.
“As the world knows, I was a little under the weather recently”, Clinton told the audience.
But Mr Trump muddied the waters when he declined to say whether he believed Mr Obama was born in Hawaii during an interview with The Washington Post.
Hillary Clinton slammed Donald Trump on Friday for questioning President Obama’s USA citizenship – saying her GOP rival owes the president and the American people an apology.
In a series of tweets, Hillary Clinton blasted Trump’s assertions, saying “he just can’t take it back”.
Speaking at an event with black women, Clinton said that Trump’s campaign was “founded on this outrageous lie. There is no erasing it in history”.
“Imagine a person in the Oval Office who traffics in conspiracy theories and refuses to let them go”, she said. “There never will be”.
Speaking Friday on ABC’s “Good Morning America”, Trump’s son said a statement by the campaign Thursday night acknowledging Obama’s USA birth “should be the definitive end” of questions about Trump’s views.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump finally admitted on Friday that President Obama is a legitimate citizen of the United States.
