Jesse Jackson: Trump should apologize

By Pete Kasperowicz

Published September 16, 2016 9:27pm ET

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Jesse Jackson: Trump should apologize — Jackson said blaming Clinton is a "canard" that has been dismissed repeatedly. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) | Gerald Herbert

Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday demanded that Donald Trump apologize for supporting the idea that President Obama wasn’t born in the U.S., a notion he completely dismissed in a Friday press conference.

“Donald Trump’s 10-word acknowledgment today that President Barack Obama was indeed born in the United States was missing a crucial last sentence: I am sorry,” said Jackson, founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

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