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It Begins Again: Now Trump Questions Rubio's Eligibility
MRCTV ^ | 22 Feb 16 | Jeff Dunetz

Posted on 02/22/2016 8:31:51 AM PST by elhombrelibre

And so it begins (again)...

When Ben Carson got a little to close to him in the polls, Donald Trump compared him to a child molester, and when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) began to get close to him before the Iowa caucuses, Trump, the GOP leader in the presidential race, started suggesting that Cruz was not a natural born citizen. And, now that Marco Rubio seems to have picked up some momentum with a second place finish in South Carolina, Donald Trump has started to direct his ad hominem venom at the Florida senator.

It started with a tweet the morning of the S.C. primary:

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anchorbaby; rubio; rubioanchorbaby; rubionbc
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To: Political Junkie Too

Let the People decide if they want a President born of two citizen parents (Trump), one citizen parent (Cruz), or no citizen parents (Rubio and Jindal).

The people already said No to Jindal.


Yup.


61 posted on 02/22/2016 10:42:29 AM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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To: odawg
It is much better just to raise the issue through various means.

Then why does he keep threatening them?

62 posted on 02/22/2016 10:47:23 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

That is one of the ways. In the business world, which is what Trump is use to, the threat of a lawsuit is sometimes better than a lawsuit.


63 posted on 02/22/2016 10:51:50 AM PST by odawg
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To: PAR35

Check your sources. Columbia University doesn’t seem to agree with you.

http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/twiki/bin/view/AmLegalHist/WillHamiltonProject

During the period when a presidential run by Hamilton would have been practically possible, ranging from his resignation as the Secretary of the Treasury in 1796 to his death in 1804, a hypothetical candidate Hamilton would have easily met the latter two of the required criteria. In 1796, when his resignation as Secretary of the Treasury would have allowed him to run for President, he would have been 41 years old. Likewise, he had been a resident of New York for some 22 years in 1796, dating from his initial attendance at King’s College (Now Columbia University) since 1774.


64 posted on 02/22/2016 10:52:28 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: odawg
That is one of the ways. In the business world, which is what Trump is use to, the threat of a lawsuit is sometimes better than a lawsuit.

In politics that's known as an empty threat or a political stunt.

65 posted on 02/22/2016 10:53:04 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Defiant

NO anchor baby has citizenship, even though it is being recognized...giving it to them is a perversion of the law.

“Every Person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States.******* This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, **********who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.”
Senator Jacob Howard,
co-author of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, 1866.


66 posted on 02/22/2016 10:53:13 AM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: DoodleDawg

The exact same thing would be said upon filing of a lawsuit.


67 posted on 02/22/2016 10:56:52 AM PST by odawg
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To: odawg
The exact same thing would be said upon filing of a lawsuit.

If he files that kind of takes the "empty threat" out of the equation.

68 posted on 02/22/2016 11:00:28 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: TornadoAlley3

Trump: pro Planed Parenthood, and against giving land back to the states, unable to decide between Israel and Islam, pro abortion etc. He is a big gov’t liberal.

Oh, but is against The Establishment. So is Sanders - go vote for him.


69 posted on 02/22/2016 11:07:07 AM PST by theoilpainter
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“Born here of citizen parents” Really?

I have three grandchildren. Their mother was born here of natural born parents (us), grandparents and great grandparents, but their father is a foreign national.

So, under your “analysis”, my grandchildren are not “natural born citizens” because they do not have two citizen parents.

And that’s what the Founders intended. I think not.


70 posted on 02/22/2016 11:12:12 AM PST by theoilpainter
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To: theoilpainter
Wrong. You sound like a GOPe ad. Lies.
71 posted on 02/22/2016 11:12:23 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Wrong? Are my grandchildren “natural born citizens”? Yes or no.


72 posted on 02/22/2016 11:15:00 AM PST by theoilpainter
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To: AuntB

That’s why I said citizenship (maybe). Sadly, there is a law that provides for citizenship for all people born in the US. The 14th Amendment doesn’t require it for visiting tourists, refugees, or illegal aliens. Permanent residents with a green card, I don’t know for sure. Rubio may be a citizen under the law, but that does not make him a NBC without further court clarification.


73 posted on 02/22/2016 11:16:41 AM PST by Defiant (RINOs are leaders of a party without voters. Trump/Cruz are leaders of voters without a party.)
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To: theoilpainter

That’s exactly what they intended.
Foreign national parents bring foreign nationalities and loyalties.


74 posted on 02/22/2016 11:16:42 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

And this shows why your “natural born citizen” analysis is garbage. My grandchildren have naturally born grandparents (us), four citizen great-grandparents ( two of whom were naval officers in WW2), and eight citizen great-great grandparents, but, to you Trumpies, the kids “bring foreign nationalities and loyalties.”

And that’s not what The Founders intended.

Unable to win the election on conservative policies ( sorely lacking in the Trump campaign) you try to win on this smear instead.

Very sad.


75 posted on 02/22/2016 11:29:14 AM PST by theoilpainter
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To: Defiant

Neither Rubio’s nor Jindal’s parents were US citizens when they were born. What a crazy race, THREE non-eligible guys.


76 posted on 02/22/2016 2:40:21 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue Ht the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: babble-on; Lurkinanloomin

He’s correct.


77 posted on 02/22/2016 2:41:18 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue Ht the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Suz in AZ

Because that is what it is!

Rep. John A. Bingham,In the United States House on March 9, 1866 commenting upon Section 1992 of the Civil Rights Act, was “simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution,that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.”


78 posted on 02/22/2016 2:44:55 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue Ht the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: theoilpainter

Rep. John A. Bingham,In the United States House on March 9, 1866 commenting upon Section 1992 of the Civil Rights Act, was “simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution,that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.”


79 posted on 02/22/2016 2:47:10 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue Ht the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: elhombrelibre

Rubio was never another citizen before American. The second he popped out of his mama, he was American. And how soon did he get his USA BC? Probably right then, in an American hospital. He has FAR MORE CLAIM to NBC status than Cruz, who was not officially American until age 16.

The only question is, was Rubio an anchor baby, born to an illegal in this country? I don’t think so. I think his mom had a work permit or green card, so she was a legal resident. As long as that is true, that she was legally here, he was NBC and he proved it right after birth if he had a BC right away.


80 posted on 02/22/2016 2:47:27 PM PST by Yaelle
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