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Posted on 01/15/2016 5:32:15 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
A morsel from the spin room after last night's debate. Trump is making a prudential argument, I take it, not a legal one since there's zippo in the Constitution barring senators from holding dual citizenship, which Cruz did until 2014. In fact, Article I explicitly permits someone to become a senator even if they haven't been an American citizen since birth: "No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen." Until now, Trump has maintained the ruse that he's talking about this subject only because he fears those dastardly Democrats will exploit the cloud over Cruz's "natural-born" status to challenge his eligibility for the presidency once he's nominee. Here, though, he's finally owning it. No Democrat is going to sue Cruz for holding his Senate seat.
The point of this comment is to question, pretty overtly, whether Cruz was/is a fully loyal American who could be trusted to do what's best for Texas and the United States instead of for Canada when he was elected as a dual citizen to his seat in 2012. When he said the "bromance is over," he wasn't kidding.
I don't agree with the conventional wisdom that Cruz destroyed Trump with his Birther rebuttal last night either. He gave as good an answer as it was possible to give, but talking about this subject for any reason is a losing battle for Cruz.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
How can Trump be president if he thinks judges write law?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/05/donald-trump-hates-seeing-kentucky-clerk-in-jail-but-says-gay-marriage-is-law-of-the-land.html
STFU Trump!
Cruz needed to attack this pompous bastard a long time ago. I fear it is too late now.
Did you know that TRUMP’S MOTHER WAS A NATURAL BORN BRITISH CITIZEN?
Trump is starting to sound like an oily creep.
How can Trump be president if he thinks judges write law?
And, unfortunately, he’ll likely appoint judges (including Supreme Court justices) that also think that judges write law.
I’ll bet Cruz wishes he could stated he was born to two U. S. citizens on U. S. soil.
Alas, he can’t...
Let me know when you find out what other nation Trump is a citizen of.
Poor ole’ Ted didn’t know what nation he was a citizen of until he was 43. Isn’t that a hoot.
Lifelong liberal Donald Trump is a joke.
If that happens to be the case, Ted is history.
In contrast, Cruz has always sounded like an oily creep.
He’s right. Maybe there’s not a law against it, but I’m sick and tired of these people with divided loyalties occupying the highest rungs of our government. It’s all part of this globalist plan to dissolve the borders, eliminate national citizenship, and make us all slaves to Goldman Sachs. Cruz is part of it.
Really Trump? You ever hear of Schwarzenegger being governator of California?
Been saying something like that for ages.
So in your legal opinion, the governor of a state is a higher office than a U. S. Senator?
The US Senate. The gift that keeps on giving us usurpers.
WTF? I guess no one really checks if someone is a citizen or not in the U.S. Senate. Obama, Rubio.....how many others?
How can Trump be President if his mother and wife are foreign born?
It’s why I hibernate every four years until it’s safe to come out.
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