He’s fueled lies about Barack Obama, Ted Cruz, Kamala Harris and now Nikki Haley not being natural-born Americans. What do they all have in common?
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Donald Trump is fueling a lie on social media that Nikki Haley is not eligible to be president.
But just like he did to Obama, Harris and Cruz when they were his primary political opponents, Trump pushing the racist idea that because Haley has immigrant parents (her parents are from India), she must not be a real American and is therefore disqualified from running for president. Haley was
born in South Carolina. She is a natural-born U.S. citizen. She is eligible to be president.
Trump aggressively spread this lie about Obama, for years, fueling wild conspiracy theories about Obama being born in Kenya instead of Hawaii, where he was actually born. Trump routinely demanded that Obama release his full birth certificate to prove where he was born, and when Obama actually did, Trump questioned its authenticity.
After five years of doing this, Trump abruptly reversed course in September 2016,
admitting that Obama was born in the United States and moving on as if nothing had happened.
In August 2020, Trump tried the same attacks on Harris. A Trump campaign spokesperson
questioned Harris’ citizenship in an interview with ABC News, and later that day, Trump said that Harris possibly
“doesn’t meet the requirements” to serve as vice president.
Harris was born in Oakland, California.
Ironically, Trump may be the one who ends up
disqualified from being president because he incited an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
Interesting how Trump wants to use interpretation of constitution requirements to prevent his opponents from being on the ballot, yet complains about how that very thing is anti democracy when it happens to him.
His father was a German immigrant...glass houses anyone?