Photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP/Shutterstock Though Donald Trump flirted for years with an entrance into politics, it was the election of Barack Obama — and the bogus claim that the first Black president was not born in the United States — that finally brought him into the civic sphere. Over a decade since Trump launched his political career on the back of a racist conspiracy theory, he has revived the claim for the first Black vice-presidential nominee in U.S.
“I heard it today that she doesn’t meet the requirements, and by the way the lawyer who wrote the piece is highly qualified, very talented,” Trump said in his coronavirus press conference. He was referring to a Newsweek column in which conservative law professor John Eastman claimed that Harris may not be considered a natural-born citizen — a requirement for those at the top of the ballot — because of what he calls the original understanding of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment.
Earlier in the day, Trump campaign senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis also presented Eastman’s op-ed as grounds for a birther revival, calling the baseless concern “an open question, and one I think Harris should answer so the American people know for sure she is eligible.” Democrats anticipated that the Trump campaign — initially launched in 2015 on the claim that Mexicans are “rapists” — would run a campaign steeped in racism if the vice-presidential nominee was a woman of color. According to Politico, during the vetting of Senator Tammy Duckworth, the selection committee was concerned that Republicans would question Duckworth — born in Bangkok to a father who was an American citizen and Defense employee — on her legitimacy as a candidate.
This is a non story. Why do you insist on printing it?
Is everyone of color and born of immigrants not really “American”? Trump’s own mother was born elsewhere, can we send Trump back to Scotland? They probably would refuse.
And Trump does. Hahahaha. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Who didn’t see this coming?
No new material?
Is she under 35?
realDonaldTrump you “heard it” while you were talking to yourself. NotAllThere TrumpMeltdown BidenHarris
Anyone really surprised? He hits a new low everyday.
Ugh...do not give this “air”
He
I heard he molests collies
Not this time, TraitorTrump.
*******PLEASE ADD THAT IT IS A LIE TO THE HEADLINE****
She was born in Oakland, fucking stop with this shit
God dammit. Not this again. And there are those stupid enough to believe it.
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