Donald Trump responded to Hillary Clinton’s demand at Sunday’s presidential that he apologize for his birther campaign against President Obama by falsely accusing her 2008 campaign of starting the rumor.
“Well, you owe the president an apology because as, you know very well, your campaign Sidney Blumenthal, he’s another real winner that you have, and he’s the one that got this started along with your campaign manager and they were on television just two weeks ago, she was, saying exactly that,” Trump said.
The campaign manager he referred to, Patti Solis Doyle, said that a campaign volunteer forwarded an email suggesting Obama was Muslim and was promptly fired. Blumenthal meanwhile was accused by a McClatchy journalist of urging his team to look into the rumors, but the journalist has not produced any emails proving as such and Blumenthal has denied the claim.
“You owe him an apology and sent the pictures around your campaign, sent the pictures with President Obama in a certain garb long, that was before I was ever involved,” Trump said. “So, you actually owe an apology.”
