PolitiFact’s video rewind for Sept. 23

By Sean Nelson
September 23, 2016

Each week, we’ll recap some of our most important fact-checks from the 2016 campaign trail. 

This week, we look at a claim that Hillary Clinton and her campaign started the birther movement.

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