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Title: Donald Trump: Ted Cruz's citizenship could 'be a big problem'
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USA Today
URL Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/ ... z-canada-citizenship/78325076/
Published: Jan 5, 2016
Author: David Jackson
Post Date: 2016-01-05 20:32:38 by Hondo68
Keywords: None
Views: 11692
Comments: 47
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz during a recent debate in Las Vegas. (Photo: AP) Birther-ism, Part II? Donald Trump, who famously questioned whether President Obama was really born in Hawaii, is now raising questions about the Canadian birth of Republican presidential campaign rival Ted Cruz. “Republicans are going to have to ask themselves the question: ‘Do we want a candidate who could be tied up in court for two years?’" Trump told The Washington Post in reference to the Texas senator. "That’d be a big problem ... It’d be a very precarious one for Republicans because he’d be running and the courts may take a long time to make a decision. You don’t want to be running and have that kind of thing over your head.” While born in Canada, Cruz and allies have said he is eligible for the presidency because his mother's status as an American citizen made him a citizen upon his birth. His father was born in Cuba. Since his election to the U.S. Senate from Texas in 2012, Cruz has released his birth certificate and renounced his Canadian citizenship. Still, some critics of Cruz have suggested taking the issue to court. “I’d hate to see something like that get in his way," Trump told the Post. "But a lot of people are talking about it and I know that even some states are looking at it very strongly, the fact that he was born in Canada and he has had a double passport.” Trump made the comments as Cruz has passed him in polls in Iowa, which opens the GOP nomination process with caucuses on Feb. 1. Cruz responded to Trump's jibe with a tweet showing a famous scene from the 1970s sitcom Happy Days, one in which the character Fonzie jumps over a school of sharks on water skis — inspiring the term "jump the shark," used to describe the moment at which a television show begins to lose its quality. My response to @realDonaldTrump calling into question my natural-born citizenship? https://t.co/gWfAHznlCY— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 5, 2016 Poster Comment: 
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
Trump is turning the entire race into a joke. We may as well get used to having the Xlintons back in the White House until they're ninety.
"Trump is turning the entire race into a joke". -- TC agrees, while making a whitty aside.... Get over it boys. Trumps gonna win the nomination, and the white house.
Or Trump will destroy the GOP entirely. And Hitlery will pack the Court with her puppets. Then we won't have to discuss anything because that will be illegal too. Trump seems to be poisoning the well, trying to make all other candidates unable to be the nominee. Not beat them but make it impossible for any other candidate to be nominated at all. You have to wonder who will be his VP pick, who would serve in his cabinet or the thousands of appointed jobs.
Not beat them but make it impossible for any other candidate to be nominated at all. Trump plays to win. Are you going to vote for Trump or Hillary?
I can't imagine voting for either. I might turn out to vote for Cruz as nominee (not as VP). Other than that, I expect I won't bother to vote in 2016. I didn't vote in 2014 either. Same reason: nothing at stake.
Then you are willing to let Hitlery pick all of those judges that you just complained about. We will do the heavy lifting for you.
The only judge he has ever praised is his sister, a pro-abortion extremist. Until quite recently, Trump himself was on record as a pro-abortion extremist, not merely content to be quiet about it or lightly pro-abortion. He was quite aggressively pro-abortion and even favored partial-birth abortion. It is pure magical thinking to think that Trump will appoint judges the Right will find acceptable.
#14. To: TooConservative (#12)
He can do that? I thought the Senate had to approve his picks.
Perhaps. But it is not magical thinking to believe that Trump will build the wall, deport illegals, stop Muslim immigration for a time, to get better security in place, make a deal with the Russians to stop the nonsense Cold War we're inching back into and instead cooperate, ensure universal health insurance without having it all be through Obamacare, and to end the carried interest deduction for rich financiers. All of those things are good in and of themselves, and none of the Democrats or other Republicans will do those things. He will.
Of course a brother is going to praise his sister. Did you vote for Romney?
That isn't exactly true. I never remember him in any pro abortion marches. In fact when asked about it the words he used to describe his being in favor were "almost ashamed". That tells me he was never a real abortion champion. I think he may have never really been for it but just said it to fit in in New York and keep his businesses successful. Now later in life he sees the country is going in the wrong direction. Seems he genuinely loves the country and wants to do what he can to help turn us around and get back on the right track again. For years he has talked about foreigners beating us in trade and taking us for suckers. That doesn't affect im personally. But he saw it as hurting the country. The man is a genius, anyone disputing that is not worth responding to. He has the brains to turn us in the right direction. I think on balance he would correct a lot of wrong things. I could be wrong and he turns out to be terrible. But right now I don't believe that to be the case. Not by a long shot.
I think his judges would be good. I think he is locked in to pro life and will follow through. He isn't stupid and knows those people would turn on him forever if stabbed in the back. I think that if he picks the right judges. The 14th amendment could be intrepreted correctly and that alone could save the nation. Imagine all these foreigners here who think they are Americans waking up and realizing they are not really citizens. That they have to go home. Stranger things have happened. On the other hand Hillarys judges will certainly be evil. If Trump loses the Repbulicans will certainly rubber stamp them.
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#2. To: TooConservative, Hondo68, trump16, y'all (#1)
To: hondo68 (#0) (who has a big problem with being trumped)
#3. To: tpaine (#2)
#6. To: TooConservative (#3)
Trump seems to be poisoning the well, trying to make all other candidates unable to be the nominee.
#9. To: A K A Stone (#6)
Are you going to vote for Trump or Hillary?
#10. To: TooConservative (#9)
I can't imagine voting for either.
#12. To: A K A Stone, Vicomte13, Tomder55 (#10)
Then you are willing to let Hitlery pick all of those judges that you just complained about.
Replies to Comment # 12. "It is pure magical thinking to think that Trump will appoint judges the Right will find acceptable."
#22. To: TooConservative (#12)
It is pure magical thinking to think that Trump will appoint judges the Right will find acceptable.
#43. To: TooConservative (#12)
The only judge he has ever praised is his sister, a pro-abortion extremist.
#44. To: TooConservative (#12)
Until quite recently, Trump himself was on record as a pro-abortion extremist, not merely content to be quiet about it or lightly pro-abortion. He was quite aggressively pro-abortion and even favored partial-birth abortion.
#45. To: TooConservative (#12)
It is pure magical thinking to think that Trump will appoint judges the Right will find acceptable.
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