Posted on 01/09/2016 4:16:21 PM PST by VinL
Donald Trump intensified his criticism of Ted Cruz at two Iowa campaign rallies on Saturday, urging voters to reject the Texas senator by saying his Canadian birth raises serious questions about his eligibility to become president.
"He was born in Canada. I guess his parents voted in Canada," Trump said at an afternoon rally in Clear Lake. "So if you were born in Canada, immediately it's a little bit of a problem."
Trump added: "You cannot put somebody there that's gonna go in ... he's going to be immediately sued."
Earlier Saturday, Trump said at a rally in Ottumwa that Cruz "has to straighten out his problems," a veiled reference to the so-called "birther" issue. But he declined to elaborate further, saying, "We'll discuss that later."
Cruz, however, is a naturally-born U.S. citizen, and most legal experts agree that he is qualified to be commander-in-chief.
But recently, he has had to aggressively push back on questions pushed from Trump about his eligibility for the presidency. He renounced his dual Canadian citizenship in 2014, and on Friday, Cruz's campaign shared with the conservative website Breitbart a copy of his mother's birth certificate showing her born in the United States.
Uh, no.
Trump’s mother was naturalized on March 10, 1942, over four years before Trump was born.
She took an oath to renounce all other countries’ claims upon her.
His father, Fred Trump was born in America. So, Trump is born of two American citizens.
By your logic, since Canada is a dominion of Great Britain, then Cruz still has a claim of Britain on him.
Do you really believe that?
Did you just arrive from Uranus? Pull your head out!
Let them sue—they will lose.
Don;t think for a minute that the Dems don’t intend to make hay about Cruz’s eligibility.
And they will have far more success in judge shopping then our side had with Obama.
Except we aren’t talking about two married Americans working in a foreign embassy are we? We’re talking about a Canadian father and his child born on Canadian soil and granted Canadian citizenship at the time of his birth. There’s no way that’s a natural born American citizen. At least Obama was born in Hawaii. In your desperation, you are cementing a dangerous precedent.
You need to work on your reading comprehension. Neither Ted's father nor his mother could have been Canadian citizens at the time Ted was born. They had not lived in Canada long enough. That information has been posted dozens of times over the past couple of days, along with the relevant statutes. Ted was a Canadian citizen because he was born in Canada, and he was a US citizen because his mother was a US citizen. He was never naturalized.
Bothers you that you’re guy is running away from his fight with Cruz, eh? Please, please please disqualify him, I don’t want to get beat.... what a punk.
Stretching things as usual aren’t you Valentine? Why do you always have to distort the truth? Trump’s mother was naturalized an American Citizens years before Trump’s birth. there is NO question about Trump.
Let them sue—they will lose.
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Exactly!!!Then WTF is baby Trump talking about!!!!!
Trump is very clearly a NBC. His father was a US citizen and he was born on US soil. The same can not be said of Ted Cruz whose citizenship status is just as, if not more questionable than Obama’s.
Only a renunciation made to the British Home Secretary is recognized by Great Britain.
"All categories of British nationality can be renounced by a declaration made to the Home Secretary. A person ceases to be a British national on the date the Home Secretary registers the declaration of renunciation. If a declaration is registered in the expectation of acquiring another citizenship but one is not acquired within six months of the registration, it does not take effect and the person remains a British national."
"Renunciations made to other authorities (such as the general renunciation made as part of the US naturalization ceremony) are not recognized by the UK. The forms must be sent through the UK Border Agency's citizenship renunciation process."
I believe you’re right. A lot of people fail to understand chess strategy. If there is a Trump/Cruz partnership, Trump is getting the issue out in the open to have it challengd and settled now. Everyone here can play lawyer, but unless they can influence factual results, it’s nothing more than personal opinion.
hy do you always have to distort the truth? Trump’s mother was naturalized an American Citizens years before Trump’s birth. there is NO question about Trump.
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Ah, but there’ll be lawsuits for sure.. We better get this resolved now. Sissy Anita Trump better go to Court and get this put to rest.
He was born with dual citizenship - Canadian because he was born in Calgary, American because his mother was a citizen. That is not uncommon when children of US citizens are born in countries with birthright citizenship.
Yes.
Then there are the Religious Liberty cases he also won at the Supreme Court as well as the ones that protect our sovereignty. We would have amnesty now if not for Ted Cruz and that's according to Sessions, Lee, Limbaugh and Levin.
Of course, I wouldn't expect someone supporting a wrestling promoter to be honest or knowledgeable enough to know any of that.
Well then, Cruz has a claim of British nationality on him, as he did not renounce his Canadian citizenship to the British Home Secretary.
Besides, American law recognizes Trump’s mother as an American citizen and that is all that matters lee-gul-ly.
Constitutional Scholars Explain Why Ted Cruz Is Eligible to Be President
ABC News ^ | 1/6/16 | RYAN STRUYK
Posted on 1/9/2016 8:19:44 PM by jimbo123
Donald Trump says questions about whether Ted Cruz is eligible to be President of the United States could become a “big problem” for the Canadian-born Republican candidate. But among legal scholars, there's a consensus: He's eligible to occupy the Oval Office.
freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3381791/posts
Why Ted Cruz is a “natural born citizen” [A legal, historical and constitutional argument]
Washington Post ^ | 01/08/2016 | By Randy Barnett
Posted on 1/8/2016 12:09:04 PM by SeekAndFind
Linking to this succinct but powerful essay by Paul Clement and my Georgetown colleague Neal Katyal, Jonathan usefully summarizes the legal argument for why Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada to an American mother, is a “natural born citizen” under Article II, section 1 of the Constitution, which provides:
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution,shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States. (emphasis added)
As he concludes in his post: “Under U.S. law, the fact that Cruz was born to a U.S. citizen mother makes him a citizen from birth. In other words, he is a ‘natural born citizen’ (as opposed to a naturalized citizen) and is constitutionally eligible.” To the evidence elicited by Clement and Katyal, I wish only to add that this conclusion is also theoretically justified by a proper conception of popular sovereignty.
freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3381276/posts
Wrong. The most recent Iowa poll still shows Ted with a 4% lead over Trump.
The fact is, Iowa is a beauty pageant for conceited corn farmers who feel it is their God-given birthright to somehow ‘brand’ the candidate of their choosing as the inevitable nominee and presumably, President.
New Hampshire in some ways suffers from the same egotistical mindset. The bottom line is “which state carries the most electoral votes?” So in that sense you are correct regarding the SEC primaries (and South Carolina).
As I have insisted repeatedly.
The same can not be said of Ted Cruz...
Of course it can, because it is the truth. ted Cruz was a US citizen by birth, just as was Donald Trump. Birth within the territorial confines of the United States is NOT a prerequisite for NBC status.
Both men have NBC status, but only one of them still maintains a dual nationality and it isn't Ted Cruz.
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