“You know better than that, and so does The Don. He said so in September.”
Ted Cruz was born in Canada as a Canadian citizen, so what kinf of fairy tale are you trying to invent now?
“This is one of my problems with Touchback Trump. He changes his views based on political convenience.”
What view are you trying to imply? The topic was the evident ineligibility of Ted Cruz and the fact no Republican candidate with an ineligibility problem due to having a parent who was an alien citizen at the time of birth has ever won the general election, except Vice President Chester Arthur.
http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/2015/09/the-donald-says-ted-cruz-eligible-birthers-wail/P> Donald Trump said, to ABC news: “I hear it was checked out by every attorney and every which way and I understand Ted is in fine shape.â€
That comment is classic Donald Trump, basing policy on rumors. Nevertheless, while I am sure that not every attorney has checked the eligibility of Ted Cruz, a number of courts and attorneys have suggested that US citizens at birth are natural born citizens for constitutional purposes, and that includes the Canadian-born Ted Cruz.
onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/03/16/ted-cruz-natural-born-citizen-birthers/
Two former top Justice Department lawyers say there is “no question†Ted Cruz is eligible for the presidency, in a new Harvard Law Review article that seeks to put to rest any doubt about the Texas Republican.
“Despite the happenstance of a birth across the border, there is no question that Senator Cruz has been a citizen from birth and is thus a ‘natural born citizen’ within the meaning of the Constitution,†write Neal Katyal and Paul Clement in an article published March 11. “There are plenty of serious issues to debate in the upcoming presidential election cycle. The less time spent dealing with specious objections to candidate eligibility, the better.â€
http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/01/will-courts-be-willing-to-settle-ted-cruz-eligibility/ Professor Jacobson has opined on the question of whether Ted Cruz qualifies to be president as a “natural born citizen.†The short answer is: he definitely does. However, as Professor Jacobson also indicated, that hasn’t stopped Trump from attempting to foster doubts in voters’ minds about it.
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/01/18/trump-ted-cruz-is-a-nasty-guy-whom-no-one-likes-and-i-might-sue-him-myself-over-his-eligibility/
Back in September, at the height of the Trump/Cruz alliance, Trump now famously said of Cruz’s eligibility, “I hear it was checked out by every attorney and every which way and I understand Ted is in fine shape.†Oddly enough, not only have his feelings about suing Cruz changed since then, his feelings about Cruz personally have too. At the December debate, he declared that Cruz had a “wonderful†temperament after calling him a “maniac†in Congress a few days later and catching flak for it on conservative talk radio. Watch below and you’ll find him dismissing Cruz as a nasty guy whom no one likes. What changed? I need to believe that true bromance is possible.
What view are you trying to imply?
The eligibility question, on which The Don totally changed his view between September and January; healthcare policy, on which he seems to go back and forth between market-based solutions and socialized medicine (the reason Mary Katharine Ham asked him about it); immigration (on which he seems to have come down on touchback amnesty); abortion; and numerous other issues.