Donald Trump’s campaign manager wouldn’t say whether her boss will apologize at the first presidential debate Monday night for spreading false claims about President Obama’s birthplace.
“What Donald Trump has said is the people who raised this at the beginning should apologize,” Kellyanne Conway said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Earlier this month, Trump for the first time acknowledged that Obama was born in the U.S. after spending five years stirring up rumors that he was born outside the country.
But even as Trump acknowledged Obama’s U.S. birthplace, he accused Clinton of starting the rumor in the first place, even though there’s no evidence her 2008 campaign was involved in spreading the falsehood. It was supporters of Clinton who started the controversy as she campaigned against Obama.
“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy,” Trump said on Sept. 16. “I finished it. I finished it. You know what I mean. President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period.”
