The president is warming up to the same racist attacks he used on Barack Obama.
“I just heard that,” Trump said of the baseless legitimacy issue about Harris, published Wednesday in a Newsweek op-ed by a California-based law professor. “I heard it today, that she doesn’t meet the requirements,” Trump continued, adding, “And by the way, the lawyer that wrote that piece is a very highly qualified, very talented lawyer.”questioning Obama’s eligibility for the presidency, repeatedly claiming evidence existed that Obama wasn’t born in the U.S.
“I have no idea if that’s right,” Trump said of the Harris attacks. “I would have assumed the Democrats would have checked that out before she gets chosen to run for vice president. But that’s very serious. You’re saying that they say that she doesn’t qualify because she wasn’t born in this country.”most of the staff in 2018, corrected Trump: “No, she was born in this country, but ... opponents say that her parents did not receive their permanent residency at that time.
The argument promoted in Newsweek and by other right-wing groups is that Harris is not a “natural-born citizen,” as defined in the, because her parents ― an economist who immigrated from Jamaica and a cancer researcher who immigrated from India ― were not. But the argument is hollow. The United States grants citizenship to anyone born in the country, regardless of their parents’ status.
“One of the hallmarks of the U.S. Constitution, by virtue of the 14th Amendment, is that it directly grants citizenship to those born in the United States, regardless of the ancestry of their parents,” Richard Pildes, a constitutional law professor at New York University School of Law,In publishing the piece by Eastman, a Republican, Newsweek did not note that he was a failed primary contender for the Calfornia attorney general’s post that Harris first won in 2010.
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