Bridge event: Trump blames Clinton then concedes Obama was born in U.S.

At Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., Trump declared, “Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period,” ending years of birther rhetoric recorded in earlier intervals while introducing a new lie that Clinton originated the myth.

"Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period,"