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‘Was There A Birth Certificate?’: Trump Battles ABC’s Jon Karl Over Obama’s, Ted Cruz’s Citizenship
MediaIte ^ | 08/12/2013 | Evan McMurry

Posted on 08/12/2013 9:02:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Potential 2016 presidential contender Donald Trump spoke to ABC’s Jonathan Karl Sunday morning and reignited the birther issue that he helped spark back in 2011, questioning the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s birth certificate and wondering whether Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada, was eligible to president.

“Was there a birth certificate?” Trump asked. “You tell me. Some people say that was not his birth certificate. I’m saying I don’t know. Nobody knows. And you don’t know, either, Jonathan. You’re a smart guy, you don’t know, either.”

“I’m pretty convinced he was born in the United States,” Karl said.

“Ah! Pretty convinced,” Trump said, and rolled over Karl’s objections that he was 100% sure Obama was an American citizen. “Pretty sure is not acceptable.”

Trump made Obama’s birth certificate a major issue in his aborted 2012 run for the GOP nomination, ultimately leading to Obama releasing his longform birth certificate.

Karl asked Trump if the Canadian-born Cruz was eligible for the office. (Cruz’s mother is an American citizen.)

“If he was born in Canada, then perhaps not,” Trump said. “That will be ironed out. I don’t know the circumstances. If he says he was born in Canada, that’s his thing.”

Watch the full clip below, via ABC News:


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To: Red Steel

Here’s an interesting title from SALON ( a left wing site much touted by Bill Clinton himself ):

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/20/ted_cruz_could_beat_hillary/

Ted Cruz could beat Hillary


21 posted on 08/12/2013 9:31:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s a honey trap being set by the libs.


22 posted on 08/12/2013 9:32:56 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Mr. K
You are right. That was hush money. He chose that over investigating the birth discrepancies on a deeper level and making it a front page issue.
23 posted on 08/12/2013 9:34:08 AM PDT by Swede Girl
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To: Mr. K
But instead the TV network gave him a $34million dollar contract to do another year of shows (anyone remember that show anymore?) and he shut up...

Oh God! Is it possible we'll be stuck with Celebrity Apprentice so long as NBC thinks Trump might be a viable candidate?

24 posted on 08/12/2013 9:34:33 AM PDT by 0.E.O
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To: SeekAndFind

25 posted on 08/12/2013 10:08:01 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: SeekAndFind
Yes there was, and it was seen by the people who documented his mother's and father's divorce papers. I believe that "indeterminate person" probably SAW the Obama Dunham Divorce Documents BEFORE Page 11 disappeared and viewed the Kenyan Birth Cerfiticate,
thereby telling Ed Hale
The Obama Dunham Divorce Documents are viewable at this location.
There's a great assumption of the time lime at at link.

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26 posted on 08/12/2013 10:16:43 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

GOP Congressman Claims: We Probably Have Enough House Votes to Impeach Obama

http://www.mediaite.com/online/gop-congressman-claims-we-probably-have-enough-house-votes-to-impeach-obama/


27 posted on 08/12/2013 10:21:54 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: SeekAndFind

Technically, Cruz is ineligible, but not because he was born in Canada.

His ineligibility is due to the fact that his father was not a US Citizen at the time of his birth (same as Marco Rubio). In fact, his father did not become a US citizen until 2005.

But, since being eligible no longer matters, he may as well run. He’d be a terrific candidate.


28 posted on 08/12/2013 10:27:39 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound (.)
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To: Retired Greyhound

I should add, this is the reason that B. Hussein Obama is not eligible to be POTUS. NOT because he was born in Kenya, but because his father was not a US citizen.


29 posted on 08/12/2013 10:30:00 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound (.)
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To: Boonie
Maybe he and Justice Roberts decided what was really best for their own health and welfare.
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Your supposition is likely correct, but complying with the blackmailer makes them a cowards and a traitors to their country. If they would have just had the courage to go public with the blackmail there would have been any number of retired SEALs and special ops patriots that would have gladly taken on the task of protected their backsides.
30 posted on 08/12/2013 10:32:12 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: Cowboy Bob

Cruz should claim that he was born in Hawaii, and present a photoshopped birth certificate...just like Obama.

H should then challange people to proved that he wasn’t born in Hawaii.

He should intentionally have the exact same “mistakes” that are on Barry’s BC.

Then when they complain about it inthe press he can show Barry’s BC and say.... OK< are you saying the president is ineligible?


31 posted on 08/12/2013 10:42:31 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: SeekAndFind

George Soros is a major investor in Trump Tower Chicago and Trump and Soros both recently donated money to the campaign fund of Kamala Harris, the left wing Democrat Attorney General of California.
http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-statewide-officials-fundraising-20130731,0,7188238.story


32 posted on 08/12/2013 10:50:31 AM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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To: iontheball

I fully agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


33 posted on 08/12/2013 11:05:14 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: SeekAndFind

Annex Canada


34 posted on 08/12/2013 11:10:45 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.))
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To: LucyT; null and void; Cold Case Posse Supporter; Flotsam_Jetsome; circumbendibus; Fantasywriter; ...

Trump says “Let’s just see what happens over time.”

I read Trump as insinuating that he has reason to believe that the WH pdf will be exposed as a fake at some point in the future. This is almost a veiled threat by Trump, IMO.

At one point, IIRC, Trump did claim that his private investigators could not confirm the Kapiolani birth or the existence of a BC in Hawaii DOH, and that was totally independent from and prior to Arpaio’s investigation.


35 posted on 08/12/2013 3:10:24 PM PDT by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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To: Seizethecarp

I read Trump as insinuating that he has reason to believe that the WH pdf will be exposed as a fake at some point in the future. This is almost a veiled threat by Trump, IMO.


He knows the Congress will not do anything until either the GOP retakes the Senate or until after Obama leaves office.


36 posted on 08/12/2013 3:15:03 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

“He knows the Congress will not do anything until either the GOP retakes the Senate or until after Obama leaves office.”

IMO, Trump may actually know information that could accelerate Barry’s exit from office just as the tapes did in Nixon and the stain on the blue dress resulted in Clinton’s impeachment (OK, at least the stain derailed Gore’s presidential run).

Bottom line is how incriminating the evidence is that Trump seems to have in his back pocket.

In the case of Nixon, his own party turned on him. In the case of Clinton, his party stood behind him (and some feckless GOP as well).


37 posted on 08/12/2013 3:33:33 PM PDT by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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To: cripplecreek; All
All I know is that Ted Cruz shows a lot more respect for the constitution than 99% of his colleagues.

That's true, at least up until now.

But if he decides to claim that he is constitutionally eligible for the presidency (or vice presidency), he will be showing zero respect for the Constitution.

38 posted on 08/12/2013 3:59:44 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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