Nasty President tries to stoke another 'birther' conspiracy

He's feeling the heat from the Democrat side of the spectrum - and especially from the huge outpouring of joy at Biden's appointment of Kamala Harris as his running mate.

Now we're going to see all the ugly edges of Donald J. Trump come out in the 80+ days leading up the the election.  And there are a lot of them.  'Nasty' will be amongst the milder terms for this man.  And remember what kind of supporters he's appealing to.

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Trump Encourages Racist Conspiracy Theory on Kamala Harris’s Eligibility to Be Vice President

Trump falsely suggests Kamala Harris, who was born in California, does not meet citizenship requirements.


President Trump on Thursday encouraged a racist conspiracy theory that is rampant among some of his followers: that Senator Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice-presidential running mate born in California, is not eligible for the vice presidency or presidency because her parents were immigrants.

That assertion is false; Ms. Harris is eligible to serve.

Mr. Trump, speaking to reporters on Thursday, nevertheless pushed the attack on his opponent. “I heard it today that she doesn’t meet the requirements,” Mr. Trump said.

“I have no idea if that’s right,” he added. “I would have thought, I would have assumed, that the Democrats would have checked that out before she gets chosen to run for vice president.”

Mr. Trump appeared to be referring to a widely discredited op-ed article written in Newsweek by John C. Eastman, a conservative lawyer who has long argued that the Constitution does not grant birthright citizenship, as proof. Ms. Harris, the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, was born in 1964 in Oakland, Calif., several years after her parents arrived in the United States.

In the hours after Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced Ms. Harris as his running mate, a new crop of memes and conspiracy website posts began proliferating online, suggesting that the junior senator was an “anchor baby” because of her background.

Mr. Eastman’s column tries to raise questions about the citizenship of Ms. Harris’s parents at the time of her birth, and argues that she may be “owed her allegiance to a foreign power or powers” if her parents were “temporary visitors” and not residents.

Constitutional law scholars have argued that the argument against her parents is irrelevant and irresponsible because Ms. Harris was born in California.

The 12th Amendment of the Constitution states that “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of vice president of the United States.”

And the requirements for the presidency, outlined in Article II, Section I of the United States Constitution, are these: “No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of 35 years, and been 14 years a resident within the United States.”

The 14th Amendment of the Constitution makes it even clearer: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

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If that's the best Trump and his nasty supporters can do, then they'd better put their desks and lockers in order for a quicker White House exit after the election.