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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the James L. Knight Center, Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, in Miami.
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  Trump Reverses Course on Obama ‘Birther’ Issue

JILL COLVIN                   acknowledged the fact         statement at the end of a   other, claiming the “birther   tion of Obama’s birthplace
JONATHAN LEMIRE               that the president was born   campaign appearance.        movement” was begun by         was pushed by some blog-
Associated Press              in America. He then imme-     “Now we all want to get     his Democratic rival, Hill-    gers who backed Clinton’s
WASHINGTON (AP) — After       diately peddled another       back to making America      ary Clinton. There is no evi-  primary campaign against
five years as the chief pro-  false conspiracy. “President  strong and great again.”    dence that is true. “Hillary   him eight years ago, Clin-
moter of a lie about Barack   Barack Obama was born in      But as the GOP presiden-    Clinton and her campaign       ton has long denounced it
Obama’s birthplace, Don-      the United States, period,”   tial nominee sought to put  of 2008 started the birther    as a “racist lie.”
ald Trump abruptly re-        Trump declared, enunci-       that false conspiracy the-  controversy. I finished it,”
versed course Friday and      ating each word in a brief    ory to rest, he stoked an-  Trump said. While the ques-          Continued on Page 4
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