Chelsea Bombing Terror Hits NYC & Trump Ends Birther Lie | Ten Years Ago Today (September 16, 2016)

September 16, 2016. Chelsea Bombing Terror Hits NYC & Trump Ends Birther Lie. A decade on: the stories that shaped that day, and how they echo into today.
⚡ CHELSEA BOMB BLAST • TRUMP BIRTHER RETRACTION
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📋 STORIES COVERED:
1. Pressure-Cooker Bomb Rocks Manhattan's Chelsea
A pressure-cooker bomb exploded on West 23rd Street in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood on the evening of September 17, 2016, injuring 31 people. A second unexploded device was found nearby on West 27th Street, and earlier that day a pipe bomb detonated along a Marine charity 5K route in Seaside Park, New Jersey. Suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami, an Afghan-born U.S. citizen, was captured on September 19 after a shootout with police in Linden, New Jersey. The attacks triggered wall-to-wall cable coverage and a massive manhunt.

2. Trump Ends Birther Claim: Obama Born in U.S.
On September 16, 2016, at the opening of his new Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., Donald Trump publicly declared that President Barack Obama was born in the United States. The statement ended his years-long promotion of the false birther conspiracy theory. Trump also falsely claimed that Hillary Clinton had originally started the birther rumor. The reversal dominated the presidential campaign news cycle with heavy live coverage.

📝 SUMMARY:
September 16, 2016 was dominated by presidential campaign drama as Donald Trump, speaking at the opening of his new Washington, D.C. hotel, finally admitted that President Barack Obama was born in the United States, ending his years-long push of the false birther conspiracy while falsely blaming Hillary Clinton for starting it. The reversal drew heavy live coverage and reset the news cycle just weeks before the election. The following evening, terror struck New York when a pressure-cooker bomb exploded on West 23rd Street in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, injuring 31 people, with a second unexploded device found blocks away. Earlier that day a pipe bomb had detonated along a Marine charity 5K route in Seaside Park, New Jersey. The attacks set off a massive manhunt that ended with the capture of suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami after a shootout with police in Linden, New Jersey. Together, campaign spectacle and homegrown terror defined a tense stretch of the 2016 race.

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