realDonaldTrump
4h4 hours ago
Thank you to the 2,500+ in North Augusta, South Carolina.
Lines down the block! Don't forget to VOTE on Saturday!
Posted on 02/16/2016 5:09:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
If Republican presidential front-runner and business mogul Donald Trump wants to sue Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), over his eligibility to run for president, he's going to have to do so within days.
Wait any longer, and it might be too late to matter.
In a lengthy Facebook post Trump wrote Monday, the GOP front-runner called Cruz "the single biggest liar I've ever come across" and "a totally unstable individual."
Then Trump threatened to file a lawsuit against Cruz claiming he is ineligible to run for president because he was born in Canada.
Legal experts said Trump must act quickly if he's serious.
"It could be that Super Tuesday will end the race, and if he doesn't do it before Super Tuesday then the race is effectively over," Adam Winkler, a constitutional law professor at UCLA, told Business Insider. "If he's going to challenge Cruz's eligibility, he should do so soon."
Rick Hasen, an election law professor at the University of California at Irvine, agreed, telling Business Insider in an email that, "The longer he waits, the more likely a court would say he's waited too long."
ted cruzAP Photo/John BazemoreTed Cruz.
Although most legal experts believe that Cruz is eligible for the presidency because his mother was a US citizen at the time of his birth, federal courts have never ruled on a presidential candidate's eligibility based on the Constitution's "natural-born" citizen requirement.
The potential Trump lawsuit wouldn't be the first challenging the eligibility of a candidate, however.
Winkler said Trump will need to prove that he is being "injured" by Cruz being in the race in order to show he has "standing" to sue. He added that courts have ruled that candidates would be injured -- which would involve losing votes and/or money -- because of an ineligible candidate.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Cruz is only a citizen at all because of a statute by Congress. Clearly not natural born.
I hope he does sue to keep making a fool of himself
Yep, do it before Nevada, Cruz will be out of race after that. Liars Lose.
realDonaldTrump
4h4 hours ago
Thank you to the 2,500+ in North Augusta, South Carolina.
Lines down the block! Don't forget to VOTE on Saturday!
Yeah, don’t you just hate it when people who make fools out of themselves are beating your guy at the polls 2 to 1.
Evidently the fool found a way to appeal to people that the smartest guy ever hasn’t figured out yet.
I am thoroughly unqualified to say anything wrt Cruz being NBC or not. However, as a sane rational individual I can clearly state that every American citizen has standing at every point during his life to make a claim against someone he believes to be unqualified to be president, e.g. Obama.
I am injured by the continuous actions of a man who either is not NBC, or more likely is NBC but is guilty of a felony in claiming foreign status in order to get whatever fellowships he got to attend the various colleges he attended.
My theory is that Trump is doing this to get it out of the way for Cruz, so if Cruz somehow wins it won't be an issue for the Dems.
Yes you are right,
Obama won must have been truthful
Clinton won must have been truthful
Nixon won must have been truthful
Kennedy won must have been truthful
FDR won must have been truthful
good job on your logic.
oh and by the way Cruz is far more honest that used casino sales man (via multiple bankruptcies) djt.
Obama won two elections...so what’s your point dilweed
The “fool” is clearly leading in every poll. Maybe you should take a breath and examine the facts?
Cruz is not ineligible to “run for President” which has no existence in the Constitution.
“because of a statute by Congress.”
So, was he Naturalized?
Oh.. So you don’t frequent casinos? Probably do I would guess.
The point is ace, you’re boy is tanking. The lies aren’t working and his character flaws are getting worse by the day.
How’s that working out for ya?
Wrong. Cruz would be a citizen by natural descent. Read Vattel.
Your sentence structure is hard to follow, so I’m not really sure what your point is.
You are called a liar when you point out to Trump that he has misspoken.
It is tRumps’s lies that are working. He’s the proven liar and cheater.
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