I think the statement that Cruz “did not know” he held Canadian citizenship is a lie, and is an easily-proven lie, at that.
I have opposed Cruz here for months, on the grounds that he cannot be elected. I’ve repeatedly praised his adherence to the constitution, his rhetorical skills, and his analytical mind.
But I think his responses to questions about his lifelong dual citizenship are a deliberate deception, and it makes me think less of him.
I don’t know if he knew. It seemed so strange to me for his mother to write her name as “Wilson”, on Ted’s birth certificate, as she was presumably married at the time to Mr. Cruz. Maybe they were not married, I don’t know.
Ted will not explain anything. He has only said that his mother filed for something-or-other with an acronym name on the form that made him a natural born citizen. No. That can not fly. It would mean his mother filed for his dual citizenship, as I understand it.
After all, in the case of Mr. and Mrs. Cruz were not eligible for natural born status for their offspring, because neither parent were on government assignment, or military or foreign service employees, or serving in any position of service to their country that would justify NBC for their offspring.
Rather, I read where both parents were Canadian citizens, by virtue of their voting record there, which requires citizenship to vote.
Ted needs to explain this stuff, given his incessant harping for the strictest interpretation of the US Constitution and his known “originalist” views on it’s contents.
(Except for when he needs the Constitution to be “flexible” for serving his own interests.)
I just don’t approve of the confusion on this issue. Our government should have settled this a long time ago, because in the case of Obama, the gap in enforcement of the citizenship requirements may have cost us our country.
It’s called lack of both the investigation and the application of the law.