Story highlights Trump claimed Clinton started the birther movement

Washington (CNN) As part of a partnership with FactCheck.org, CNN examines the lack of evidence to Donald Trump's claim that Hillary Clinton started the "birther" movement against Barack Obama in 2008.

As FactCheck.org reported before, there's no proof Clinton had anything to do with the claims that Obama wasn't born in the United States and thus was ineligible to be president.

But while Trump's specific claim against Hillary Clinton is not true, her supporters' hands are not entirely clean.

In January 2007, Insight Magazine, a right-wing publication, reported that Clinton's team had questions about Obama's Muslim background. It said that researchers connected to Clinton were spreading the allegation that he spent four years in a madrassa. The Clinton campaign said this was not true.

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