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:
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
That’s a honey trap being set by the libs.
Oh God! Is it possible we'll be stuck with Celebrity Apprentice so long as NBC thinks Trump might be a viable candidate?
See the whole Obama 1964 divorce on Scribd.com or as 13 individual images below (in proper order):
I immediately called the clerk in Hawaii and asked where the extra page was. She looked, and counted, and said that there must be some mistake in the records she counted only 13 pages that are available for reprint. I pointed out to her that the page count she sent skipped from page 10 to page 12 page 11 was missing. To that, she suggested that perhaps the pages were simply misnumbered before they where archived into the microfiche.
I accepted her answer, not thinking much about it at the time. Perhaps it was just a clerical error in the 1960s, when hand-filed paper records and IBM punch cards were how court documents were tracked and maintained.
I have since come to learn that Obama and his team of lawyers have been working to sanitize his records since he announced that he’d run for President circa November 2004. Now in the White House, hes still ACTIVELY blocking subpoenas for such documents as his Cambridge and Occidental College records TODAY the same type of documents promised to be made available during his campaign. Obama and his lawyers are exceedingly adept at exploiting loopholes in Hawaiian birth certificate law to keep Obamas past hidden from the American people.
This missing page page 11 very likely is a copy of the original birth certificate, based upon the prima facie timeline of the 1964 divorce. The Kenya birth certificate was likely requested on Jan 23, 1964 by either Judge King (to award custody on the next trial date), or recommended to Ann Dunham by her attorney for the ex parte divorce, where only one parent was expected to be present.
The missing page, 11, should be chronologically-numbered as all other pages were in the original docket file, by the court clerk at the time. Starting at page 8, Exhibit A is placed where it would have occurred by date in the paperwork (and appeared on microfiche), even denoting an erased, yet barely-readable “8″ on both pages of the returned notification sent to Obama SR. The missing page, numbered as page 11, would likely be a page that would have been admitted to the divorce file sometime in mid- to late-February 1964 almost as if it were an undocumented Exhibit B.
Heres a very plausible timeline merging the 1964 Obama Divorce papers and new Kenya birth certificate:
Jan 20 (Mon) divorce request is filed by Stanley Ann D. Obama
Jan 23 (Thur) divorce orders for trial are given by Judge King at chambers
In Hawaii, birth certificates are not Public Record. If the Kenya birth certificate was a part of the divorce decree, it may have been pulled out at the end of the trial, or more recently by a watchful archivist or attorneys wishing to remove unfavorable information about Obama.
To date, despite other honest attempts to refute the Kenya birth certificate, such as dealing with when the Republic of Kenya came into existence as a republic have been un-bunked. Dishonest alterations of the Kenya birth certificate have been maliciously created by sites such as Democratic Underground, designed to discredit the Kenya birth certificate theyve been un-bunked as well.
Having not actually seeing the Kenya birth certificate, and its chain of evidence, no intellectually-honest person can say if its real or not. By the same token, none of us have seen or touched the short-form Certification of Live Birth that has appeared on Obamas Fight the Smears or FactCheck.org websites.
No one can confirm the chain of evidence of Obamas Certification of Live Birth that has appeared online, which is the abbreviated-version of Obamas true, 1961, original long-form(s) Certificate of Live Birth and associated vital statistics records. Even the Hawaii Department of Health directly refuses to verify Obamas online COLBs.
GOP Congressman Claims: We Probably Have Enough House Votes to Impeach Obama
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.
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.
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 wasnt 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?
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
I fully agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Annex Canada
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.
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.
“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).
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.
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