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 "
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