Bloomberg Criticizes Trump Over Birther Issue

The Wall Street Journal ^ | April 24, 2011 | Brody Mullins

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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he won’t run for president in 2012 and declined to endorse the potential candidacy of Donald Trump, one of his constituents.

Speaking on “Fox News Sunday,” Mr. Bloomberg called Mr. Trump a friend and “New York icon.” But he criticized the idea of questioning whether President Barack Obama was born in the U.S., an issue that Mr. Trump has pressed.

“The president was born here,” Mr. Bloomberg said. “I think the Republicans are making a terrible mistake in making this a big issue.” Mr. Bloomberg said that if Republicans don’t address larger issues such as the economy and immigration, “they will lose and they deserve to lose.”

Mr. Bloomberg noted that Mr. Trump isn’t the only Republican challenging Mr. Obama’s citizenship. “This ‘birther’ issue is more than one person,” he said. “There are a lot of roots that have glommed onto this.”

Mr. Bloomberg also said, “I am not running for president.”

Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.), the Republican standard-bearer in 2008, also declined to endorse Mr. Trump....

[Art in Idaho]

"Silence can only be equated with fraud where there is a legal or moral duty to speak or where an inquiry left unanswered would be intentionally misleading." United States v Prudder, 424 F. 2d 1021(5thCir. 1970),cert. denied, 400 U.S. 831 (1970)

Edwin Vieira, Constitutional Lawyer: "at the inauguration. . he's aware he's not a citizen, then it's a perjured oath."

Rep. John Bingham of Ohio, considered the father of the Fourteenth Amendment, . . in the House on March 9, 1866: “I find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents [plural, meaning two] not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen”

This will have to be defined by SCOTUS eventually. I'm not holding my breath while Obama is in office, though they should rule on it post-haste.

[TauntedTiger]

Happy Easter to all.

“Bloomberg is also one of the biggest control freaks on the planet.”

At this point, defending Trump is the most patriotic thing I can do to thwart whatever brand of communism/socialism the Soros progressives are instituting.