Trump’s father was a natural born US citizen living in the US. Trump was born in the US. Where his mother is from is irrelevant.
Really ? I think you have that wrong.
Rafael Cruz
Ted Cruz's father
Rafael Bienvenido Cruz is a Cuban-born American Christian preacher and public speaker. The father of US politician Ted Cruz, he is described by various media outlets including the Wall Street Journal ... Wikipedia
Born: March 22, 1939 (age 76), Matanzas, Cuba
Even so, Mary Ann Trump was Naturalized four years before Trump was born. My wife was naturalized four months before my son was born. To the extreme you have to trace everyone to before the constitution or that the are Native American to be Eligible. My mother’s side would qualify, but by grandfather came from Germany at age 14. And my grandmothers folks came from Germany as teenagers as well.
Now that I corrected that, I can add to your statement by saying that your comment "Where his mother is from is irrelevant." may be a key to the whole CRUZ NBC issue.
Everyone is saying because his mother was a US citizen that Ted was too.
The information I found says that it is the father's nationality that counts, not the mothers.
Whether that is going to be proven true, is hard to say. There is so much controversy, and there's a lot more BS floating around than FACT.
Here is that info:
"citizenship shall not descend to persons whose 'fathers' have never been resident in the United States"
Before the 19th Amendment, women had no right to vote. Only citizens could vote. Women were considered to carry the status of their husbands and were under the authority of their husbands.
Regardless of a woman's origins and birthright, she was categorized according to her husband's status. Whether she was German, Mohican, French, Iroquois, or born of American colonists, her citizenship status mattered not to the birth of her children. It was the FATHER who determined the birthright.
If a woman was not born of a citizen father, she was in effect 'naturalized' by marriage to a citizen American as long as the marriage was considered legitimate.
Therefore, the only criterion of consequence was a child born to an American citizen father inside a marriage considered as legitimate.
Was she naturalized before he was born?