Clinton: Trump 'Owes' Obama and the Nation an 'Apology' for Birther Talk
Ahead of what Donald Trump is billing as a "big announcement" regarding his beliefs of President Obama's birthplace, Hillary Clinton said the GOP nominee "owes" the president "and the American people an apology" for his past role in pushing the belief that Obama was born outside of the U.S.
"Donald Trump, in recent weeks, he’s tried to restrain himself and clean up his image but as Maya Angelou once said, 'when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time," Clinton told an audience at a Black Women's symposium in Washington, DC Friday morning.
"We know who Donald is," she continued. "For five years, he has led the birther movement to delegitimize our first black president. His campaign was founded on this outrageous lie. There is no erasing it in history. Just yesterday Trump again refused to say with his own words that the president was born in the United States. Now Donald’s advisers had temerity to say he’s doing country service by pushing these lies. No, he isn’t. He is feeding in to the worst impulses: the bigotry and bias that lurks in our country."
Clinton added, "Barack Obama was born in America plain and simple. Donald Trump owes him and the American people an apology."
