Headline Roundup September 16, 2016
The "Birther" Flap Re-Emerges
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NBC News Digital
On Thursday night, the Washington Post reported that Donald Trump refused -- again -- to say President Obama was born in the United States. "I'll answer that question at the right time," Trump said. "I just don't want to answer it yet." After Hillary Clinton seized on the issue before an audience of Latinos, a Trump campaign spokesman issued a statement saying that Obama WAS born in the U.S. "Having successfully obtained President Obama's birth certificate when others could not, Mr. Trump believes that President Obama was born in the...

Fox News Digital
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton traded barbs Thursday over the Republican nominee’s past suggestions that President Obama was born outside the U.S. and thus ineligible to be president, after Trump initially declined in an interview a day earlier to definitively say the president was born in America.

Politico
The Republican nominee is blaming Clinton for raising doubts about Obama's birthplace during the 2008 campaign.
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