Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is at it again, bombarding another minority presidential candidate with questions about his citizenship, only this time it’s Ted Cruz.
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He added that it would be a precarious one the Republicans because he would be running and the courts could take a long period to come up with a decision. The last thing Trump wants is for Cruz to be amused by him. He continued, “I’d hate to see something like that get in his way”.
In what has now become his signature style, Trump “reports” on something he says is already occurring in order to stir up a discussion.
If Trump was sowing doubt about Cruz, he stuck up for Obama – whom a Fox host on Tuesday suggested was faking the tears he’d shed that day as he talked about tightening gun laws.
Under U.S. law, anyone born to a U.S. citizen anywhere in the world is granted U.S. citizenship.
Experts largely agree that Cruz, who was born an American citizen thanks to his mother’s nationality, is eligible to serve as president. Citizens who’ve never undergone the process of naturalization, like Ted Cruz, are natural born citizens.
We were curious about Trump’s claim in a January 5, 2016, interview with the Post – offered by the candidate without documentary evidence – that Cruz has had more than one passport, implying the Houston lawyer spent some time trying to pass as a citizen of either Canada or the U.S.
Mr Obama was born in Hawaii to an American mother and a Kenyan father.
“He posted as his response “@realDonaldTrump calling into question my natural-born citizenship”, with a YouTube clip of the character Fonzie from Happy Days “jumping the shark”.
But Trump said he disagrees with Obama’s approach: “I think he’s incorrect about it. They’re just taking chunks and chunks out of the Second Amendment”.
Cruz has in recent years released his birth certificate and renounced his Canadian citizenship.
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“You know, I think without question he is qualified and would make the cut to be prime minister of Canada, absolutely without question, he is qualified and he meets the qualifications”, the Kentucky senator said of Cruz on the radio show Kilmeade and Friends. The problem is, the Constitution does not define the term “natural born citizen”. In an interview with ABC News in September, he said, “I hear it was checked out by every attorney and every which way and I understand Ted is in fine shape”. The Naturalization Act of 1790 provided that “the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens”.
