And some call us Trump cultists... At least Trump is eligible to hold the office.
That was actually the Cruz lie I had in mind—the fact that he said, according to some originalists, that Trump wasn’t a NBC because his mother was born in Scotland. I.e.: the fact that Trump’s mother was a US citizen at the time of Donald’s birth didn’t count; the fact that she used to be a Scottish citizen disqualified Trump as a NBC.
Honestly, that Cruz lie made me so angry I couldn’t see straight. NO reputable originalist believes that—and Cruz knows it. It was a smear on originalists, making us out to be stupid and ignorant.
It was far worse than that, however. For a knowledgeable person like Cruz to make such an idiotic claim, there can be only one explanation. Namely, his motivation in putting forth that lying twaddle was simply to drag Trump’s mother into it. He was hoping Trump would shout, ‘Leave my mother out of it!’ If he had, Cruz would have said he didn’t have the temperament to be POTUS. It was grotesque.
Cruz’ lies reveal a very mean, troubled person. We can only hope he gets help, and emerges from all this a more decent, integrated person.