on Thursday said he was "very proud" of his questioning of President Obama's birthplace and forcing the White House to release the president's birth certificate.

"Well I'm the one that got him to put up his birth certificate," the GOP presidential nominee told NH1's Paul Steinhauser in a Thursday interview.

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"I would say that pretty much everybody agrees with me, but she tried and she was unable to do it and I tried and I was able to do it, so I'm very proud of that."

Trump reversed course this month and declared Obama was born in the U.S. after spending five years questioning the president's birthplace.

The White House eventually released the president's long-form birth certificate in 2011 in an effort to quiet skeptics, including Trump.

Trump blamed Clinton for starting the birther movement during his event earlier this month in Washington where he declared having "finished it."