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Considering the fact that many dispute his sire and perhaps even his mother, then this State Department ruling would certainly have some bearing on the issue... a U.S. citizen if found in the United States

Wrong! That mean nothing, he has to be a natural born citizen

[ProtectOurFreedom]

You misconstrue my point, PNSN. I was somewhat jokingly offering a new tack for his supporters. Because his background is so murky and there is such weak evidence about his parentage, they could use this clause to argue he was left in swaddling clothes on a doorstep somewhere (ie, “found”) and is thereby a NBC. I thought that would be a funny new approach for the leftist kooks to take. I wasn’t offering it as a serious defense of NBC.