Trump spokeswoman defends call for ‘pure breed’ president

The Washington Times ^ | 1/25/2016 | Jessica Chasmar

[mmichaels1970]

So? It shows the comment is a whole lotta nothing. Or that Cruz was a poor judge of character during and years after she worked for him. I choose the former.

[kabar]

Does Ms. Silly Season know Trump’s mom was a foreign national who had not been naturalized at the time of his birth?/

Simply not true about Trump's mother. You could have easily verified the truth but chose to spread a lie.

Donald John Trump was born on June 14, 1946, in the borough of Queens in New York City. He is the fourth of five children to Mary Anne (née MacLeod; 1912–2000), a homemaker and philanthropist[36] and Fred Trump (1905–1999), who worked as a real estate developer. His mother was born at Tong on the Scottish island of Lewis. In 1930, aged 18, she visited the United States and met Fred Trump. They were married in 1936.

Now the Birthers.org website, which has been among those questioning Obama’s eligibility, reports that Trump’s mother did indeed become a U.S. citizen before the birth of Donald. It displays a small image of a signed naturalization receipt for Mrs. Trump on March 10, 1942, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, four years before Donald was born.

WND found a larger image of the document in the National Archives, showing details for Mary Anne Trump, including her home address of 175 24 Devonshire Rd. in Jamaica, N.Y. and her age of 29 at the time of the record.

[Cboldt]

-- It's a joke. I am not a birther. --

Neither is John Valentine. The contention you make is used by some (not saying by you) to paint birthers as kooks, and that if one follows the logic of the birthers, then Trump is or was a dual citizen at birth (or now), and therefore ineligible.

The question of eligibility is a serious one, and should be resolved with correct application of legal principles, authorities, and precedents.

Anyway, even though we are in opposition, John and I engaged in a good faith analysis of what he chose as applicable law, which was UK law. We both concluded that Trump never had any UK Citizenship, but that he presently holds what is known in UK law as an entitlement.

[flaglady47]

“I heard otherwise, but even if she had become naturalized at the time of his birth, what was her “breeding”?”

Trump’s mother was well bred.

[5thGenTexan]

Fine. She was naturalzed before his birth. He still didn’t meet her definition of “pure breed”.

Make no mistake, I totally believe Trump is eligible. He stupid comment shows either Trump hired someone who would make stupid public comments, or he hired someone who would hire someone who makes stupid public comments.

And Trump was his major qualification for President is his business acumen, of which, hiring compedent people is way up on the list.

Bad optics. I call out my guy’s mis-queues, Trump supporters defend everything Tom him and his entire organization.

[kabar]

The Trump family has some interesting roots.

Does that mean education is a ‘good person’ key? Because under that criterion, a 16-year-old apprentice barber fleeing military service in his homeland, a non-English speaker, with no money, might not qualify.

That was Trump’s grandfather: Friedrich Trump (some sources spell the surname “Drumpf”).

The teenage Friedrich Trump arrived in New York City on Oct. 17, 1885. He was alone, although his older sister Katherine met him on the dock. They were from the village of Kallstadt in southwestern Germany.

Trump prospered in the New World. But it took time and was not easy. With money earned barbering, he eventually struck out West, buying and running diners and inns in Seattle and later British Columbia. Some of these were dives on the rough side of town.

Around 1900, Trump decided to cash out and return to his homeland, permanently. He took his stake back to Germany and married a former neighbor. But the authorities determined that he had become an American and had fled Germany to avoid the army and tax obligations. He and his pregnant bride were expelled.

“The Trumps were to be Americans after all,” wrote Gwenda Blair in her book, “The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire.”

The couple had a son, Frederick, in New York City, in 1905. This was Donald Trump’s father. His birth in America, and subsequent automatic US citizenship, disproves rumors that The Donald is himself an “anchor baby” born to noncitizen US immigrants.

Fred Trump’s story is well-documented. Beginning at age 15, ‘he developed modest houses and apartments in New York City’s outer boroughs. He grew rich due to a ferocious work ethic and attention to detail.

Fred Trump’s New York Times obituary notes that he concealed his German origins from World War II until the 1980s, maintaining that he was Swedish. He had many Jewish tenants and felt they would be less likely to do business with a German.

In 1930, Fred Trump met a young Scot in New York on holiday, Mary MacLeod. They married in 1936. Born on the Isle of Lewis, Trump’s mother was proud of her Scottish heritage. Nevertheless, she became a US citizen on March 10, 1942.

“A patriotic move, it was also prudent for the wife of a man doing wartime construction for [the US military],” wrote Ms. Blair.

[kabar]

A tempest in a teapot. As we get closer to the Iowa caucus followed closely by NH, everything gets magnified and blown out of proportion.

[mmichaels1970]

He(r) stupid comment shows either Trump hired someone who would make stupid public comments, or he hired someone who would hire someone who makes stupid public comments.

This goes for Cruz too?

[5thGenTexan]

Cruz was a poor judge of character for hiring her but Trump wasn’t?

Well, I guess we’re done here...

[Cboldt]

Great story, first I’ve known of that family history. Thank you very much for taking the time to post it.

[the_daug]

certainly don’t need another bastard as president!

[5thGenTexan]

I thought Trump was the infallible business genius, and Cruz is just the politician?

[5thGenTexan]

Well, maybe there is a reason she longer works to Cruz.

[bushpilot2]

‘Yearnings to be with her own natural kind” William Wordsworth

Naturalization

[mmichaels1970]

The more I hear of this lady the better I like her

Me too! Did you know that Glenn Beck is posting that she is a hard-core leftist radical? And people are spreading his post. Glenn failed to realize that Cruz himself employed this radical and called her a "fearless principled conservative".

[commonguymd]

interesting video

[mmichaels1970]

Cruz was a poor judge of character for hiring her but Trump wasn’t?

Nope. You said that, not me. I said it was a whole lotta nothing. Yep we're done.

[kabar]

I found it interesting that his grandfather cashed out and went back to Germany only to be expelled causing him to return to America. Call it fate or kismet, but this is how the Trumps became an amazing American success story.

[mmichaels1970]

Well, maybe there is a reason she longer works to Cruz.

Maybe. Cruz DID get elected in 2012, so I'd guess her job was done. Now Rafael Cruz endorsed her later primary run and Ted called her a "fearless principled conservative" two years later at a campaign rally.

I believe both men were better off for having her on their side.

[bigtoona]

I see what you did there! Just remember that Trump will never give up or let us down!