When President-elect Trump visited President Obama at the White House the day after the election, Trump made what might have seemed like a startling admission. Barack Obama, Trump said, “is a very good man.”

It was startling in part because Trump had made his name in politics by publicly questioning whether Obama was born in the U.S. and thus eligible to be president.

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