In lengthy Twitter rant, Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump's birther antics 'deplorable' and 'asinine'

Hillary Clinton.
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Donald Trump's admission Friday that President Obama was indeed born in the United States unleashed an epic tweetstorm from Hillary Clinton's official Twitter account. In the barrage, Team Clinton called Trump's reversal — and lack of apology for promoting the birther theory in the first place — a "disgrace." And that was just the tip of the iceberg:

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