combination shows Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton(L) on April 4, 2016 and Republican challenger Donald Trump on February 16, 2016. November’s US presidential election is taking shape: Republican billionaire Donald Trump and Democratic power player Hillary Clinton look set for an ugly battle for the White House after a bruising primary season. Trump knocked out his only serious challenger Ted Cruz on May 3, 2016 in Indiana’s key primary, winning 53 percent of the vote against 37 percent for the Texas senator, who raised the white flag and surprisingly pulled out of the race. / AFP PHOTO
Washington – Presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, on Friday called on her rival of the Republican Party, Donald Trump, to repudiate his own history of questioning President Barack Obama’s nationality.
Trump, a New York billionaire with little previous political participation, has long encouraged the “birther’’ movement that arose during Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, questioning whether he was born in the U.S.
Clinton, in a Washington speech, said that Trump’s campaign was founded on this outrageous lie, saying there was no erasing from the history.
Obama was born in Hawaii; his mother was a Kansas native married to a foreign student from Kenya.
“Barack Obama was born in America, plain and simple, while Donald Trump owes him and the American people an apology,’’ Clinton said.
However, Trump too, was due to speak on the issue in Washington.
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