US election: Trump campaign acknowledges Obama was born in US

The Trump campaign has acknowledged in a statement that President Obama was born in the US.

The Republican candidate had been a leader of the "birther" movement that questioned Hawaii-born Mr Obama's citizenship.

But his campaign now accuses his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton of introducing the "smear" during the 2008 Democratic nomination contest.

There is no evidence to link Mrs Clinton to the birthers.
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