Via Fox News:
Donald Trump tried to tamp down a newly revived campaign dust-up Friday over his views on President Obama’s birthplace, declaring Friday that the president was born in the United States – “period.”
The Republican presidential nominee also tried to blame Hillary Clinton for starting the controversy back in 2008, which her team denies. But he cast his remarks as a bid to put the issue to rest once and for all.
“Hillary Clinton and her camping of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it,” Trump said in Washington, D.C. “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period. Now we all want to get back to making America strong and great again.”
He spoke at his new Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., a visit that began with lengthy remarks from military supporters and veterans. He briefly addressed the “birther” issue at the very end of the event.