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Donald Trump supporters have filed a lawsuit challenging the eligibility of one of his primary rivals, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), to run for president.
The lawsuit, filed Feb. 3 at a district court in Alabama, seeks a judgment “declaring that Rafael Edward Cruz is ineligible to qualify/run/seek and be elected to the Office of the President of the United States of America” due to his Canadian birth.
Cruz was born in Calgary, Canada, to an American mother.
Several of the five plaintiffs — Sebastian Green, Shannon Duncan, Kathryn Spears, Kyle Spears and Jerry Parker — are backing Trump in the Republican primary, their attorney, Thomas Drake, told The Hill, although he said others are still undecided.
"The only thing they can agree on is Mr. Cruz is not eligible to be president," Drake said.
Gee I wonder if Donald Trump has a team of investigators in Canada who "cannot believe what they're finding."
And for those who argue that these are Trump supporters and not Trump himself:
If @TedCruz doesn’t clean up his act, stop cheating, & doing negative ads, I have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 12, 2016
Personally I just love watching the Republicans eating their own.
Trump is a dirty player and will do anything to win (betcha he deals in business the same way!).
ReplyDeleteAmericans that vote for the asshole are absolutely nuts should he be nominated by Republicans as their candidate.
The guy is a racist, hateful, angry all the time and horribly reactive if he doesn't like something, get his way OR thinks someone doesn't like or respect him!
He's a 'little' man in a overweight body and ugly in demeanor! I find him insecure as Hell and not worthy to be POTUS! He needs to go back to playing with his money and the majority of us wouldn't miss him one bit!
Trump did the "birfer" shit with POTUS and he WAS a natural born. Ted Curz is NOT!
DeleteHe wasn't born here.
How is it he served in Senate even? I have to agree with tRump on this but tRump will never be potus. Heck the RNC will drag McCain out of mothballs or grab Romney.
Trump will never be potus of this great country.
Anon @ 6:35 AM
DeleteThank you for so aptly describing Trump. Indeed he is a "little" man.
Ted Cruz is OK as to running for POTUS IF he were picked! He was born of an American mother. Trump would lose his case/suit if he actually felt insecure enough as to file it!
DeleteI'd never vote for either one of them!
7:13
DeleteI, also, don't think Trump will ever be POTUS. I do believe he may win the GOP nomination, however.
Who needs reality TV?
There's a chance she became a Canadian citizen shortly before her birth.
DeleteAfter Sarah went over to the Drumpt side she became 'official'. She hooked up the girls with actual certificates! LOL
DeleteCONS4PEE: Gov. Sarah Palin • Protect Those You Love! Proudly Clinging To God, Guns, and Constitutional Rights to Keep 'Em
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a250/iizthatiiz/01-04-16%20Sarah%20Palin%20-%20Protect%20Those%20You%20Love%2006_zpsn15ygsiq.png
I feel safer already! It's not Trig's birth certificate but it is about as close as Sarah will get to proof she birthed Trig!!
Even if all of other factors are in Cruz's favor (his mother never renounced her US citizenship, etc.), if a CRBA form was not attached to Ted's birth certificate, he is not a natural born US citizen.
Delete"A child born abroad to a U.S. citizen parent or parents may acquire U.S. citizenship at birth if certain statutory requirements are met. The child’s parents should contact the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate to apply for a Consular Report of Birth Abroad of a Citizen of the United States of America (CRBA) to document that the child is a U.S. citizen. If the U.S. embassy or consulate determines that the child acquired U.S. citizenship at birth, a consular officer will approve the CRBA application and the Department of State will issue a CRBA, also called a Form FS-240, in the child’s name."
http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/abroad/events-and-records/birth.html
Do you really believe there are people born abroad to US citizens who are considered natural born Americans even though we have no idea they exist?
8:02, Ted is not a natural born US citizen if his parents failed to file for a Consular Report of Birth Abroad or obtained a valid passport at the time of his birth. This can not be done retroactively. This is a time-frame involved to obtain either of these two things. Cruz has not produced the evidence.
Delete8:46 AM:
DeleteThe pic is too small to read what the certificates say. Any place to see a bigger pic of that?
You could also be describing Ted Cruz.
DeleteAh, the chickens are coming home to roost. What goes around comes around. Karma is a bitch. You get the idea! The GOP's whole 'birther bs' they perpetuated, prolonged and pooped out of their pathetic pea brains is going to bite them in the ass!! In the immortal words of the GOP's grand wizard of stupidity, their supreme leader of incompetence, their 'mission accomplished' charlatan who accomplished nothing...."Bring It On!!!
ReplyDeleteBlue girl Liz ... living in a red state ...
I wanna sue Trump to prove he's human and not one of those stupid NOTW illegal aliens. :-)
ReplyDeleteCruz doesn't seem to above playing dirty either. Of course when he's called out he stands back and claims innocence.
ReplyDeleteHow is sticking to the constitution playing dirty?
DeleteTed is not natural born.
So, he's a Republican.
DeleteWe knew that already.
It's like watching the Keystone Kops or Laurel and Hardy. You call this leadership? I sure as heck don't.
ReplyDeletetRump isn't presidential material. That said, I believe there are serious questions as to little teddie's US citizenship. The GOP in Texas took his word and didn't check it out.
ReplyDeleteYou don:T have to be natural born to be a senator.
DeleteThat these "deep bench" bozos are the best the republican party (and their supporters) can come up with in a country of 318,900,000 millions says volumes about all those people: too dumb (or poor) to run, or rat-smart, suspecting the gop party is finished? Even the Koch Bros. have said they may "sit this one out."
ReplyDeleteNine months to go, people -- the gop is gestating one mother-f**cker of a nominee. Last one standing in their cage-match campaign?
Absolutely, Barbara, and that Queen Heifer aligned herself should speak volumes for anyone paying attention.
DeleteNearing my twilight years, I think of my grandchildren and sigh for the life they'll have when I'm long gone.
At the same time, I'd love to see it happen so the c4ps, and likes of them, can whine and complain that their lives have gone back to the 1800s.
So basically Trump wants the Constitutional laws regarding birth eligibility exercised, ONLY if Ted watches his mouth.
ReplyDeleteIf Ted panders to Trump, then Trump will ignore the law, but if Ted dares to call it like it is, Trump will exercise the law.
Presidential candidate Trump sounds like he'll use that Constitution when it suits him, and when it doesn't, he'll sweep things under the rug.
How dishonest.
Just when you think he can't sink any lower in ethical behavior... and nine more months of sinking...
DeleteOne thing in this whole fight (between Trump and Cruz), I find that Cruz is an utter wimp in defending himself. He thinks showing restraint and smiling and suppressing any anger towards Trump's accusations is a 'he shoots, he scores!'
ReplyDeleteWhat is Cruz so afraid of? Why doesn't he fight back? He has no problem using sly tactics with others. He is a real weasel. But, with Trump, he runs to the dog house with his tail between his legs.
The only thing that makes sense is that Cruz is a coward.
Deleteand his kids would be anchor babies
Delete""Ironically, the kind of justices he says he wants are the ones that say he's not eligible to run for president," Tribe argued. "This is important because the way this guy plays fast and loose with the Constitution, he's a fair weather originalist."
ReplyDeleteTed's former teacher. http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/12/politics/laurence-tribe-ted-cruz-birther-argument/
Good, I'm glad he is. I truly think his Mom gave up her citizenship ( and that is one of those things you don't get a "do over" on )
ReplyDeleteBTW, if it is proven he isn't an American citizen at all that would make him an illegal alien.
No it wouldn't doofus. There is such a thing as permanent resident without citizenship. It's called a green card. The other is a work visa. Both are legal.
DeleteThis>"There are important limitations on lawful permanent residents’ rights, however. You do not have any rights to vote in U.S. elections."
DeleteTeddy the CruZZer is a FRAUD, SEDITIONist and much worse..
http://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/us-immigration/permanent-resident-vs-citizen-difference.html
@8:12 Maybe so, but in Canada, you cannot vote in elections unless you are a Canadian citizen and I've read reports that She was on the Canadian voter rolls in the 1970's. So clearly there IS a question there. Doofus.
Delete@ 8:12 am
DeleteIf his Mom gave up her American citizenship to become a Canadian and VOTE in Canada then he is not an American citizen at all.
So Doofus, Fuck off.
Trump Exposed As A Speed Tweaker: Suddenly His Megalomania Makes A Little More Sense
ReplyDelete...Megalomaniac is another that comes to mind. No matter what way you look at The Donald, he definitely doesn’t qualify as “typical.”
As it turns out, there may be a very good, very dangerous, very pharmaceutical reason for it. Gawker recently re-examined an article from 1992 that may have more to do with Donald Trump’s failures as a human being than the genes he inherited from his booze and hooker pimping grandfather.
As it turns out, a story from Spy Magazine revealed that Trump was a patient of the infamous Dr. Joseph Greenburg, who was known for prescribing an amphetamine-like drug called Tenuate Dospan for a non-existent condition called “metabolic imbalance.” According to the story:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/02/13/trump-exposed-as-a-speed-tweaker-suddenly-his-megalomania-makes-a-little-more-sense/
Bill Maher Hilariously Rips Donald Trump’s Unemployment Lie To Shreds (VIDEO)
...Maher marveled at how ridiculous the claim is. Maher pondered what exactly an America with a 40% unemployment would look like. He mentions the horrific realities of the life during the Great Depression. During that dark time in the United States economic history, the unemployment rate was at its highest was 25 percent. Almost half of Trump’s claim. Maher asks:
“Do you have any idea what America would look like with 40 percent unemployment? In the Great Depression, people were jumping out of windows and selling apples on the street.”
Maher laid part of the blame for Trump and other Republican’s ability to get away with making such bold and obvious lies, with the media. He points out the lack of outrage in the media over the Supreme Court’s decision earlier this week to block most of President Obama’s new carbon emission rules, as an example.
You can watch the segment below, in full.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/02/13/bill-maher-hilariously-rips-donald-trumps-unemployment-lie-to-shreds-video/
Love Bill Maher! He calls Trump out more than anyone else on his weekly Friday night show. Never miss it! Find him smart, funny, jaded and up to date on the political issues!
DeleteA speed freak like Sarah! No wonder they are friends?! I think she is advising him, LOL also,too!
DeleteWhat a flippin' MESS!
That explains what Donald sees in Sarah. He may understand all the blabber and word salad. It makes perfect sense to him.
DeleteYep, Trump is in sync with leaving the the Army Sargent son to oversee all the weapons and arsenal strewn about the property at 1140 W Parks Hwy. It is their constitutional right to think an Army Sargent is the one who is a good caretaker for weapons and all the ammo. An Army Sargent would know top gun safety. Trump would be proud and respect the Palin judgment when it comes to having the weapons you need to hunt for food and protect yourself. Trump and Palin are like one and the same.
I can't believe the media is not asking Trump more about important matters like home safety and guns. Would he vet the people who would be watching and responsible for his arsenal, or just any family member would do, or a privileged vet with PTSD and or alcohol problems? Trump seems to be saying he is fine with the alcohol problem vet with anger issues.
Most of all Trump must keep up about the veterans. He kind of dropped them after that one big show when he wanted to be busy and not do that other thing with the other candidates. The vets need reality not some one trick pony show.
Trump: I urged Palin to talk about son's arrest
He says he wanted to lead to discussion about the fate of returning veterans.
Read more:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/trump-cnn-don-lemon-palin-218051
How much leadership and discussion has Trump and Palin demonstrated since Trump urged Palin to talk about son's arrest? He claims he wanted to lead the discussion about the fate of returning veterans.
He needs to just do it and not flake out like a Palin. He is going to look bad if he doesn't come through, Palin, also too.
Least you forget, a tale of two vets
http://whatwouldjackdo.net/images/2vets.jpg
I kind of think that Trump has broken ties with Palin, told her to go home and stay home and take care of her fucked up family.
DeleteHer craziness and her fucked up family tainted his Iowa win.
Yes Cruz was born in Canada, and believe me--we're STILL trying to get the stink off.
ReplyDelete~Canuck~
Bubble, Bubble, Trumpian Trouble
ReplyDeleteIRONY ALERT: The Trump that Fox "News" built is bursting the insular bubble that Fox "News" took the last 20 years to build.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/02/12/friday-fox-follies-bubble-bubble-trumpian-trouble.html
Some of the biggest Republican donors, who collectively have contributed tens of millions of dollars to shape the presidential race, are tightening their purse strings out of frustration with their inability to boost their favored candidates, or to slow Donald Trump.
ReplyDeleteRather than continuing to write huge checks to support the cluster of establishment candidates jockeying to emerge as the leading alternative to Trump, a billionaire real estate showman roundly despised by the GOP elite, these donors have mostly retreated to the sidelines. They’re watching anxiously, hoping that the field sorts itself out, according to interviews with a half dozen major donors or their representatives.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/gop-megadonors-fundraising-freeze-219228
“It is possible that Trump could sue a registrar of voters who lists Ted Cruz on the ballot, arguing that Cruz is not eligible to be President. That is the kind of suit which does have the possibility of going forward,” said University of California Professor Rick Hansen. Hansen runs the popular electionlawblawg.com.
ReplyDeleteSo, Trump, given that he is running against Ted Cruz, could make the argument that he is an injured party here because they are both listed on the ballot.
“There’s at least an argument. It is not a slam dunk,” Hansen told LawNewz.com.
Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, recently wrote an article on Slate.com arguing that Cruz is not a natural born citizen. “The natural way to obtain citizenship, then, was (and is) by being born in this country. Because Cruz was not “natural born”—not born in the United States—he is ineligible for the presidency, under the most plausible interpretation of the Constitution,” Posner wrote.
http://lawnewz.com/uncategorized/donald-trump-may-in-fact-have-standing-to-sue-ted-cruz/
Maher: With Trump’s Lies, the Media ‘Acts Like Reality Show Producers’
ReplyDelete“As much as I hate the politicians, every week when I watch TV, I hate the media more,” he said. “It really is a reality show in the sense that the media acts like reality show producers.”
“The media does not care about the truth in this election,” he said. “All they care is about the storyline.”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/maher-with-trumps-lies-the-media-acts-like-reality-show-producers/
Didn't notice where you'd retracted your mistaken accusation that the Chicago photo wasn't Bernie Sanders. The photographer Danny Lyons attested that it's indeed Sanders.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.phaidon.com/agenda/photography/articles/2016/february/02/when-danny-lyon-met-bernie-sanders/
Sanders campaign admitted it is not him
DeleteYou have it exactly backwards. The Sanders campaign said its "100% certain" the picture is Sanders AND the Photographer himself confirms it IS Sanders. Here are other pics from the same day:
Deletehttp://m.dailykos.com/story/2016/2/12/1484056/-Celebrated-Photographer-Yes-That-Is-Bernie-Sanders-Time-Magazine-Is-Lying
11:08
DeleteFact are easy to find.
I saw Tad Devine get grilled over this as to why the Sanders sampaign misrepresented the photo. Devine stated they removed the caption, falsely identifying the photo as Sanders, from their website. Devine further stated that they are using this photo as an example of protests at the time, not an example of Sanders per se.
Facts are indeed easy to find and the most recent news about this photo is that it is Sanders. Here's video of Jeff Weaver, Sanders' campaign manager, telling Jim Sciutto last night on CNN that they are certain the photo is Sanders. The photographer confirmed the photo is Sanders.
Deletehttp://www.cnn.com/2016/02/12/politics/sanders-civil-rights-jeff-weaver-campaign/
For completeness, the University of Chicago Photographic Archive identifies Bernie Sanders on the right in the photo and the photographer as Danny Lyon, who confirmed it is Sanders.
Deletehttp://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?one=apf4-01699.xml
She may believe that, but the photographer is certain it's Sanders. He gave Time other pictures he took right before the photo in question that show Sanders sitting on the floor in the same room in the same dark sweater. University of Chicago has changed the caption of the picture back to Bernie Sanders.
Deletehttp://time.com/4220480/bernie-sanders-disputed-civil-rights-photo-1962/
If it is Sanders, then tell us why is campaign no longer identifies the photo as Sanders? They did, and now then do not.
DeleteThe photographer is certain? LOL Okie Dokie then.
DeleteSanders is certain it is not him.
University of Chicago has changed the caption of the picture back to Bernie Sanders.
DeleteWhen Sanders' campaign changes the caption back to indicate this is a photo of Bernie, let know.
Typical Berniebros trolling.
You'd have to ask the Sanders campaign about what they do with pics on their website.
DeleteThere's no question the assertion of the photographer who was there who has photographic evidence (time.com link above) from the same day showing Sanders in the same clothes, carries substantially more weight than what the ex-wife, who admits she wasn't there, says she believes from looking at a picture. He's an eyewitness. She's not.
According to the original Time article from Nov, Sanders was sure it was him.
http://time.com/4108379/bernie-sanders-photo-civil-rights/
"On Thursday, a Sanders spokesman said the candidate was sure he was the person in the photo."
And last night on Cnn (link above) the campaign manager said they're sure it's Sanders.
Trump is such an effing coward with how he always says and does things via others and acts as if he's just responding to what he heard. I can't believe any man would find that manly. And as another poster pointed out, with this eligibility thing he's not even basing it on moral grounds--it's a big "if" and he'll do this or do that if someone doesn't conform to what he wants. Well, there was already a ruling a while ago saying that Cruz is a viable candidate. Given how that matter was determined, Trump will have a hard time trying to get other states to side against Cruz. I'll paste in a link. people can also, if interested, look up articles on Mitt Romney's dad and how it was determined that he, who was born in Mexico (it was not the same kind of situation as McCain's) was able to run for pres.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-natural-born-illinois_us_56b10542e4b0a1b96203f393
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-natural-born-illinois_us_56b10542e4b0a1b96203f393
DeleteWhy didn't that chickenshit bastard file his own lawsuit? Now that coward is able to say I didn't file it, other concerned Americans did.
ReplyDeleteWhy are you surprised? That's been his approach right from the start. The classic Faux News "Some people are saying..."
DeleteWhy would Donald Trump and others be concerned about Ted Cruz's and President Obama's citizenship when the crybaby wants to imbed a traitor to our union into his presidential cabinet? In the United States of America, Sarah Palin is considered to be a traitor to the US of A for being party to a group that wanted Alaska to secede from the union.
ReplyDeleteInternet:
John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin was in Alaskan independence party
Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, was once a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, its officials have said.
News of Mrs Palin's former membership comes as the latest in a string of potentially embarrassing disclosures about her past.
The party has lobbied since the 1970s for the right to hold a referendum on whether Alaska should secede from the United States. Its motto, "Alaska First", contrasts sharply with the John McCain campaign slogan: "Country First."
It seeks "the complete repatriation of the public lands, held by the federal government, to the state and people of Alaska" and aims to be "self-sufficient" by using profits from Alaskan oil and gas resources. It claims that the vote held in 1958 which led to Alaska becoming the 49th state of the US was corrupt and did not offer a proper choice
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/johnmccain/2667214/John-McCains-running-mate-Sarah-Palin-was-in-Alaskan-independence-party.html
It just breaks my heart that our country, once respected, has come down to this on both sides. Laughing stock.
ReplyDeleteI will forever miss you, President Obama.
Once we kick the berniebros to the side, democrats will be fine
DeleteIgnore 9:46. Her ass is getting really huge from all the feedings.
DeleteAt the time of Palin's birth, Sandpoint, ID did not have a regular hospital, so it is possible Chuckie took mom up to Creston. BC, Canada for Sarah's birth. That good ol' free Canadian national health care. If this is true than Sarah may not be natural born either. which explains why she's not running.
ReplyDeleteI'm convinced Sarah was UNnatural born.
DeleteHey Gryphen, in above photo, it looks like Cruz & Trump are beginning the dance of the do-si-do.
ReplyDeleteSwing your partner 'round 'nd 'round,
Watch Trump's hair blow all around.
Grab your "Little" lady by the hand,
That would be Trump's with it's delicate span.
A left and a right around the stage
Watch as Cruz becomes more crazed.
Promenade two and promenade four,
Kick both these a$$es out the door.
Way up in Alaska don'tcha know
Sits Pariah Palin all alone.
Nobody wants her, she's the plague,
A failure all around, she's beyond decayed.
Yee-haw !!!
I my gosh,I just had such a visual" . Very funny! Thank you. :)
DeleteThis is not decided law by the Supreme Court, although, similar cases have inferred that Cruz is not eligible. So take it all the way to the Supreme Court Trump and lets settle this once and for all.
ReplyDeleteWe need to see a CRBA (Consular Report of Birth Abroad) attached to Ted's Canadian birth certificate. Until then, no proof Ted was natural born.
DeleteBoil the peanuts folks. Tonight!! WE the people see SC fireworks and everythin!! Grand old party of 6 on stage. Lets get ready to rumble)))))))((((((((
ReplyDeleteI had a conversation with a woman who ADORES Trump where I work. I asked her why, she said "What he stands for, and he knows how to make big deals for America". That's it? What's his position on anything? Well that lady over there said it, so I will, Cruz is a pussy. Can anyone imagine him at a summit of world leaders? Seriously.
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