Trump owes Obama an apology: Clinton

September 17, 2016 01:44

Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, owes an apology to the US President Barack Obama for lying about the latter's place of birth, his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton demanded today ramping up

the attack on the real estate mogul.

"Barack Obama was born in America, plain and simple, and Donald Trump owes him and the American people an apology," Clinton said.

Moments later Trump said that Obama was born in the US, but did not say anything about the apology.

The White House said the US President does not care about the apology.

The Democratic Party also demanded an apology from Trump on this issue.

At a morning event, Clinton alleged that for five years Trump had led the birther movement to delegitimise the first black president.

"His campaign was founded on this outrageous lie. There is no erasing it in history. Just yesterday, Trump again refused to say with his own words that the president was born in the United States," she said.

Trump, she alleged, "is feeding into the worst impulses, the bigotry and bias that lurks" in the country.

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