Obama’s failure to prove his eligibity is what helped Trump when he grabbed the issue and ran with it because other possible candidates ignored it until he started running with it.
The question should not be why is Trump running with it, the question should be why did Boehner and the Republican controlled Congress drop the ball and allow for Trump to pick it up?
You know, we voted in 2010 and we won Congress. Boehner could call for hearings on this just like the democrats ordered hearings on McCain’s eligibility (for having been born in Panama on a US Military base). I don’t think we can blame the American people or Republicans for their doubts that the President of the United States is legit.
There is a way for this to be a non-issue in 2012. And that’s to verify Obama’s eligibility right now. I mean, that’s not asking for much. It’s only been 3 years. Why wait? Look! This would not have been an issue and Trump would not be as high in the polls that he is now if:
#1) It were taken care of before Obama became President
or
#2) It were taken care of once the Republicans gained control of Congress.
or
#3) Sarah Palin or some other republican had taken the serious issue and run with it.
The longer Boehner takes to bring up this issue, the more dug in Trump gets on this and other issues as a candidate.
My preference would be to solve this issue now, suck the air out of trump’s balloon and nominate a conservative to run against Obama or Biden on the other issues.
But this is not a Trump issue. This is a Constitutional issue (even if all records are fine and legit). Obama’s failure to prove his eligibility opens doors for people like Arnold. Heck, George Soros could be eligible now. Why? Because the new precedence is “American until proven otherwise”.
This is a Constitutional issue. And Donald Trump knws that the US Constitution trumps all political ideology. Because without the Constitution nothing else matters.
I'm thinking that ALL candidates to Congress, incumbent and challenger alike, need to be asked to go on the record with their criteria/definition for Natural Born Citizen, as part of their election campaigns. These are the people who are obliged to enforce the constitutional requirement in the first place, if an unqualified person receives a majority of the electoral votes.
3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.20th Amendment to the US Constitution