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Donald Trump: “Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. I finished it. You know what I…”

On the recordSeptember 15, 2016
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.
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Donald Trump
Republican · Florida

Editor's note · Context

Trump claims he ended the birther controversy and asserts that Obama was born in the U.S.

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