Trump finally drops birther issue, falsely claims Clinton initiated it

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By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson | WASHINGTON

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday abandoned his false claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States after spending five years peddling conspiracy theories that the country's first African-American president started life as a foreigner.

But, never one to let a controversy go without fanning its flames, Trump accused Hillary Clinton, his Democratic rival in the Nov. 8 election, of starting the so-called birther movement in her failed 2008 presidential campaign against Obama, a claim that does not stand up to scrutiny.

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"President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period," said Trump, a real estate developer. "Now we all want to get back to making America strong and great again," he said at an event in Washington at a new Trump International Hotel down the street from the White House.

Devoting only about 30 seconds to the subject, Trump did not apologize and did not expand upon his abrupt decision to shift from a stance he held for five years.

The New York businessman brought up the birther controversy as far back as 2011, appealing to a right-wing fringe of voters who formed the early base of his support when he launched his presidential bid last year.

The birther conspiracy movement is aimed at challenging the legality of Obama's presidency - the U.S Constitution requires that a president be a natural-born citizen.

During his presidential campaign, Trump has readily trafficked in other theories that are the stuff of American supermarket tabloids.

There was his declaration that the father of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, one of Trump's many rivals for the Republican nomination, might have been linked to the assassin of President John F. Kennedy. And there was his false claim that thousands of Muslims in Jersey City, New Jersey, cheered when the World Trade Center twin towers collapsed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN11M1F3

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[JevyDuty 2,961]

It only took him 8 years!!!

[ItsTommyBitch 12,640]

So...we want a president who believes in Conspiracy Theories and doesnt have the integrity to own up to when he's wrong and blames someone else even when there's undeniable proof that it was of his own volition?  

Hes basically a child 

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57 minutes ago, ItsTommyBitch said:

So...we want a president who believes in Conspiracy Theories and doesnt have the integrity to own up to when he's wrong and blames someone else even when there's undeniable proof that it was of his own volition?  

I thought you were describing Clinton here

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Just now, Goosey said:

I thought you were describing Clinton here

Did you really? Because I definitely used male pronouns several times  

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39 minutes ago, ItsTommyBitch said:

Did you really? Because I definitely used male pronouns several times  

There is more than one Clinton 

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46 minutes ago, Goosey said:

There is more than one Clinton 

True, but only one is running for president