A statement from Donald Trump's campaign claims "Trump did a great service to the President (Obama) and the country by bringing closure" to the birther conspiracy theories. But after the interview was published, one of his spokespeople, Jason Miller, emailed reporters a statement claiming the following: “Mr. Trump believes that President Obama was born in the United States.” It was, in theory, a significant admission. Article Continued BelowWrote Mother Jones, the left-wing magazine, in an accurate assessment: “Almost every word of Donald Trump’s birther statement is a lie. And it is patently ludicrous to claim that Trump helped Obama, or America, by spending years discussing a nonsensical conspiracy story considered racist by millions of Americans.

Source: thestar September 16, 2016 12:31 UTC