Donald Trump has previously been accused of racism and has embraced other conspiracies.
Washington:
US President Donald Trump has fueled false claims that Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris is not eligible for the post because her parents were born overseas.
The claims about Ms Harris – who was born in the United States, making her constitutionally eligible for vice president and president – echo a baseless theory Trump has long promoted about his predecessor Barack Obama.
“I heard today that she does not qualify,” Trump said at a White House press conference Thursday, referring to an Aug. 12 opinion piece in Newsweek.
The article by Conservative law professor John Eastman says that “before we so cavalierly accept Senator Harris’s eligibility for Deputy Speaker, we should ask him a few questions about his parents’ status at the time of his birth. “
Trump said Eastman of Chapman University “is a very qualified and very talented lawyer. I don’t know if this is true.”
Eastman was also an unsuccessful Republican challenger, losing in the primary, for the 2010 California attorney general election won by Harris, who held the post before becoming a United States Senator.
Ms Harris, 55, was born in Oakland, California to an Indian mother and a Jamaican father.
– A historic choice –
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden, 77, on Tuesday appointed Harris as his running mate to challenge Trump in the presidential election. She is the first black woman and woman of South Asian descent to receive this honor.
Eastman’s article followed claims shared thousands of times on Facebook that Harris couldn’t become president because his parents were from overseas.
Article 2, Section 1 of the United States Constitution states that “no one other than a born citizen or citizen of the United States” shall be eligible for the presidency. They must also be at least 35 years old.
And section 2 of the 14th Amendment says, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States.”
Under this clause and an 1898 Supreme Court ruling, “anyone born on American soil and subject to its jurisdiction is a born citizen, regardless of the nationality of their parents,” says the Legal Information Institute from Cornell Law School.
Harris couldn’t become vice president if she didn’t qualify for the presidency.
According to the 12th Amendment to the Constitution.
This means, Super said in an email to AFP, that “someone who is not a U.S. citizen by birth, or someone who is under 35, cannot take office. of vice-president “.
As Trump turned his television fame into a political career, he embraced and promoted the “birther” lie that Obama, the first black president of the United States, was not born in the United States.
Obama was born in Hawaii to a Kenyan father and a white American mother. Trump reluctantly admitted at the end of his 2016 presidential campaign that Obama was born in the United States.
Since then, Trump has faced accusations of racism and embraced other conspiracies.
Polls show him losing the November vote.
On Wednesday, he praised Georgian Republican congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene, a follower of the QAnon conspiracy theory that called white men America’s most oppressed group.
(Except for the title, this story was not edited by GalacticGaming staff and is posted from a syndicated feed.)
