“President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period,” Donald Trump said in a televised speech in Washington, D.C., on Friday morning.
The Republican presidential nominee said that he was putting an end to the so-called birther controversy, which claims that Obama is not originally from the U.S.
“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy,” he began. It was, as the New York Times later stated, a false assertion. “I finished it. I finished it. You know what I mean.”
He then said that the sitting president — who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1961 — is, indeed, a native-born American.