A short history of Donald Trump's 'birther' conspiracy – video

Donald Trump on Friday publicly acknowledged for the first time that President Barack Obama was born in America. Trump had long fanned the flames of this conspiracy theory, known as ‘birtherism’, and spent much of spring 2011 garnering media attention by constantly claiming without any evidence that Obama might have born overseas. He then sporadically revisited the issue in the years to come. We look back at some of Trump’s more incendiary remarks