Posted on 01/23/2015 7:32:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa – Billionaire Donald Trump, the most prominent “birther” to question Barack Obama’s eligibility to serve as president, asserted Friday that Sen. Ted Cruz must clear up legal doubts about his own eligibility due to his birth outside the United States.
“It’s a problem. It could be a difficult problem, but he admits that he was born in Canada,” Trump told reporters in Iowa on the eve of the first major gathering of 2016 presidential hopefuls.
“He’s a friend of mine. I have great respect for him. But …certainly it’s a stumbling block and he’s going to have to have it solved before he goes too far,” Trump said.
Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, on Dec. 22, 1970, while his parents worked in the Canadian oil patch. His mother is a native-born American. His father, a Cuban émigré who later became a naturalized American, was still a Cuban citizen at the time.
Cruz’s birth in Canada was never a secret. But it has proven a political liability, with detractors occasionally taunting him as “Canadian Ted,” and critics suggesting that his birth outside the United States makes him ineligible to run for president.
In August 2013, The Dallas Morning News reported that the circumstances of his birth made him both a Canadian and an American. The dual citizenship came as a surprise to Cruz and his parents, and the senator quickly vowed to shed his Canadian citizenship. That became official last June.
For Trump, that’s not yet good enough if Cruz wants to run for and become president....
(Excerpt) Read more at trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com ...
Noooooo
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Your post is utter nonsense none of it is true or ever was.
No one “learned” because it was never true.
The peddlers of this were fast buck scam artists who couldn’t care less who was President.
I say this about his citizenship, but I do think that was a faked birth certificate they showed.
I think there is something else that has nothing to do with citizenship they don’t want people to know.
Or they did it on purpose to make people chase down blind alleys rather than do something constructive that actually could have hindered him.
“Cruz is a natural born U.S. citizen. He was an American citizen at birth. He never received and never required naturalization.”
It is that simple.
True for Obama too.
Not so. Obama’s father was a bigamist. Anne couldn’t legally be married to Sr for starters... Nor Could Sr confer British citizenship to illegitimate Barry.
Too bad he IS qualified, Donald. Now quit dividing the vote and put some of that cash behind him.
This is a link to a PDF file on the State Department website:
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/86757.pdf
Look at section "7 FAM 1133.2-2 Original Provisions and Amendments to Section 301"
Non issue. But after Obozo anyone can run, president.
0bama’s mother was too young to pass citizenship to her son.
I don’t think it’s about giving cash to a candidate for DT.
His assertion is a disappointment
Listening to him last go around with people like savage, I thought he was out for the good of the country
Now, just now, I assume he thinks the country will be fine under some horrible lukewarm as a slug at night eating all the good stuff growing in your garden hop ridiculous hopeful who doesn’t realize that the GOP cannot get anyone into the whitehouse other than Reagan if it isn’t doe Saudi backed bush squeaking in, and so DT is going for the highest bidder
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Any person in the entire world who cannot see very plainly that Cruz is the only person who can run the country and that anyone else will simply continue Bo’s agenda is just sick in the head
Sick
And anyone reading who doubts this must look at how a GOP congress is much more pushy for amnesty and we’d have been better off w a dem congress whom the disgusting lukewarm GOP congress could pretend to hate by blocking amnesty
Now there’s no obstruction
A GOP e president will destroy whatever’s left and trump either doesn’t care or doesn’t believe it
He is not wise in all arenas. Look a this family life
Look at him dissing Cruz
The don is now off my list
Ijut
Donald Trump, the most prominent “birther”
Ok, if that is sincere why did Trump support Obama? He stopped the support only when he found that it didn’t get him access....
>>>Of course many people no longer care what the Constitution says<<<
What does the “Constitution” say concerning this subject?
Para español, oprime número dos
Ted Cruz was a U.S. citizen at the moment of his birth.
That makes him a Natural-Born Citizen.
Barack Hussein Barry Soetoro Obama has never been a citizen of the U.S. He is an illegal alien.
“Obama was always born a citizen because of his mother.”
Not so. His mother had to be a citizen of the US for 5 years after age 14 for that to be true under the law at the time. Either that, or he had to be born in the US...hence the whole birth certificate controversy.
Under this definition, Cruz is a citizen from birth because his US citizen mother was older than 19 (she was in college in the 1950’s, more than 100 years before his birth). Unlike Obama, ther is no doubt here.
Of couse, the definition of “natural born citizen” is still at issue. I think that neither qualify for lack of TWO citizen parents, but that ship sailed in 2009.
Sorry...10 years before his birth.
Nineteen court decisions have ruled that Barack Obama qualifies as a natural born citizen. No court has ever ruled that he doesn’t qualify.
It will be the exact same situation if Senator Cruz decides to run. The courts will back his eligibility.
Here are two excerpts from those nineteen rulings:
Taitz v. Obama (Quo Warranto) “This is one of several such suits filed by Ms. Taitz in her quixotic attempt to prove that President Obama is not a natural born citizen, as is required by the Constitution. This Court is not willing to go tilting at windmills with her.”— Chief U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, April 14, 2010
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30040084/TAITZ-v-OBAMA-QW-23-MEMORANDUM-OPINION-dcd-04502943496-23-0
Allen v Obama, Arizona Superior Court Judge Richard E. Gordon: “Arizona courts are bound by United States Supreme Court precedent in construing the United States Constitution, and this precedent fully supports that President Obama is a natural born citizen under the Constitution and thus qualified to hold the office of President. Contrary to Plaintiff’s assertion, Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1874), does not hold otherwise.”—Pima County Superior Court, Tuscon, Arizona, March 7, 2012
http://www.scribd.com/doc/84531299/AZ-2012-03-07-Allen-v-Obama-C20121317-ORDER-Dismissing-Complaint
The Constitution is seldom a stumbling block anymore. . So no worries.
Obama is ostensibly born in Hawaii. For years the accusation was that he was born in Kenya, and therefore not eligible. This must have been important to some people because he ultimately released was purported to be a BC from Hawaii. If the place of his birth was in fact meaningless, why did he do that?
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