Chelsea Bomb Terror & Trump's Birther Bombshell | Ten Years Ago Today #shorts

What really happened on September 16, 2016 — the night a bomb tore through Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood and Donald Trump finally ended his five-year birther crusade against Barack Obama?

CHELSEA BOMBING • AHMAD KHAN RAHAMI • SEASIDE PARK NEW JERSEY PIPE BOMB • DONALD TRUMP • BARACK OBAMA BIRTHER CLAIM • TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL WASHINGTON DC

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PRESSURE-COOKER BOMB ROCKS CHELSEA, MANHATTAN
On the evening of September 17, 2016, a pressure-cooker bomb exploded on West 23rd Street in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, injuring 31 people. Police quickly found a second, unexploded pressure-cooker device just blocks away on West 27th Street. Hours earlier, a pipe bomb had detonated along the route of a Marine Corps charity 5K race in Seaside Park, New Jersey, though no one was hurt there. The two attacks triggered a massive manhunt across New York and New Jersey. The suspect, Ahmad Khan Rahami, an Afghan-born naturalized U.S. citizen, was captured on September 19, 2016, after a shootout with police in Linden, New Jersey. A decade later, the Chelsea bombing is remembered as one of the last major terror attacks to strike New York City before the 2016 presidential election consumed the national conversation, and as an early example of how fast investigators can identify a suspect using surveillance footage and forensic evidence.

🗳️ TRUMP FINALLY DROPS THE BIRTHER LIE
On September 16, 2016, at the opening of his brand-new Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., Donald Trump stood before reporters and declared that President Barack Obama was, in fact, born in the United States. It was a stunning reversal after years in which Trump had built part of his political brand by publicly questioning Obama's birthplace and eligibility to be president. In the same breath, Trump falsely claimed that Hillary Clinton and her 2008 campaign had started the birther rumor in the first place, a claim quickly debunked by fact-checkers. The reversal instantly became one of the biggest stories of the 2016 presidential race, with critics accusing Trump of trying to have it both ways after nearly five years of birtherism. Ten years on, the moment is still cited as a defining example of Trump reshaping a political narrative on his own terms, just weeks before he would be elected the 45th President of the United States.

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