Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said she believes President Obama was born in the country. | Getty Conway: Trump believes Obama was born in U.S.

Donald Trump now believes President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, according to his campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.

But Trump hasn’t said that himself.


When asked by CNN host Chris Cuomo why Trump is unable to say that the president was born in the United States, Conway said “you have to ask him,” and suggested Cuomo was wrong to ask about birtherism.

“He believes President Obama was born here,” she told Cuomo on Friday. “He was born in Hawaii. The point is what kind of president has he been. So he is born in the United States. No question, he was born in the United States. He has not been a particularly successful president. That’s what this campaign is about, on our side.”

Trump infamously launched a campaign in 2011 insisting that Obama release his birth certificate, provoking conspiracies that the president wasn’t born in the United States. Trump suggested that the president was instead born in Kenya.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Thursday night also said that Trump believes Obama was in fact born in the United States.

“I confirm that and Donald Trump now confirms that,” Giuliani said. “He has told me that he is proud of the fact that he finally got Obama to produce his birth certificate.”

Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, said this week that he too believes Obama was born in Hawaii.