Exactly... Facebook bullshit included(Especially)...Nothing like clicking a link and receiving some type of warning that you are about to leave somewhere and click this to continue...I find it actually embarrassing and pathetic that people of a certain age rely on facebook for all of their news and info...I have to laugh at all the fake shit that gets passed around on there and then people actually use this line"I saw it on facebook"
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Donald Trump signed the arm of 19-month-old Curtis Ray Jeffery II after the rally in Baton Rouge. Curtis's hair had been styled tongue-in-cheek as a homage to the presidential candidate's own tresses
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Little Curtis looked impassively at the presidential hopeful as he scribbled on his hand
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The toddler had a glitzy pacifier featuring Trump's face and was also a fan of big blond hair
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'COMMON SENSE': Boos rang out at every mention of Democratic names like Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama
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LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL: Trump's free-wheeling rally was a love fest with his audience of 13.500 eating up every word
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CAJUN COUNTRY: Trump's Baton Rouge speech was his first in the Louisiana capital and comes in advance of a March 5 primary
[h=1]'I always have a gun on me' Trump tells French magazine - and had he been around when ISIS attacked Paris 'I would have opened fire'[/h]
PUBLISHED: 15:11, 12 February 2016 | UPDATED: 17:21, 12 February 2016
Had Donald J Trump been around when ISIS attacked Paris, he says he would have 'opened fire.'
'I always have a gun on me,' he reportedly told French magazine Valleurs Actuelles as he made the case for loosened regulations on firearms.
France has strict gun laws and no right to bear arms for its citizens. The U.S. presidential candidate has more than once suggested the laws there be changed there and elsewhere so that victims of such attacks are able to defend themselves.
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WATCH OUT ISIS: Had Donald J Trump been around when ISIS attacked Paris, he says he would have 'opened fire'
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PACKING HEAT?: 'I always have a gun on me,' he reportedly told French magazine Valleurs Actuelles as he made the case for loosened regulations on firearms.
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A spokeswoman for Trump did not respond to DailyMail.com's email asking for confirmation that the Secret Service officers protecting the White House candidate - seen here surrounding him - allow him to pack heat on the stump and take guns on his jet, for that matter
After the Charlie Hebdo massacre in January of 2015, Trump tweeted, 'If the people so violently shot down in Paris had guns, at least they would have had a fighting chance.'
'Isn't it interesting that the tragedy in Paris too place in one of the toughest gun control countries in the world?'
'Remember, when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns!'' he said in a third tweet.
In an interview this month that ran in Valleurs Actuelles, Trump referenced the November terrorist attack on Paris and said, 'Do you really think that if there were people in the crowd, who were armed and trained, things would have turned out the same way?'
'I don't think so. They would have killed the terrorists. It makes sense,' he said.
The GOP front-runner for president then declared: 'I always have a gun on me. I can tell you that if I had been in the Bataclan or in the cafes I would have opened fire.'
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'I may have been killed, but I would have drawn,' he said, according to The Local, a website that curates news from France.
Trump went on to talk about how Paris and France are not what they used to be, and 'there are areas where you have the impression that they are outside the law... that there are some lost territories of the Republic.'
He said, 'French friends tell me they sometimes no longer feel at home in their country.'
A spokeswoman for Trump did not respond to DailyMail.com's email asking for confirmation that the Secret Service officers protecting the White House candidate allow him to pack heat on the stump and take guns on his jet, for that matter.
At an October presidential debate Trump said, 'I do carry on occasion -- sometimes a lot...but I like to be unpredictable.'
That was before he was granted Secret Service protection, however.
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Trump is seen here holding a replica flintlock rifle awarded him by cadets during the Republican Society Patriot Dinner at the Citadel Military College last February in Charleston, South Carolina. He's said in the past he also owns a 'H&K .45 and a .38 Smith & Wesson'
.Several years ago he gave an interview in which he confirmed that he has a 'carry permit - I’ve said that publicly' - and told Emily Miller, then of the Washington Times, 'I own a couple of different guns, but I don’t talk about it.'Trump revealed to her that he owned an 'H&K .45 and a .38 Smith & Wesson.'
Speaking about the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooting, Trump told her, 'If some of the people in the movie theater had a gun, they’d have been shooting at him. Nobody had a gun so they were totally defenseless.'
Miller arrived at the determination after the conversation that Trump was 'a true Second Amendment enthusiast.
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- Trump was making the case for loosened regulations on firearms; France has strict gun laws and no right to bear arms
- He referenced terrorist attack on Paris and said, 'Do you really think that if there were people in the crowd, who were armed and trained, things would have turned out the same way?'
- The GOP presidential candidate has said in the past that he has a concealed carry permit and often carries a gun
- See more of the latest news on the Republican presidential primaries
PUBLISHED: 15:11, 12 February 2016 | UPDATED: 17:21, 12 February 2016
Had Donald J Trump been around when ISIS attacked Paris, he says he would have 'opened fire.'
'I always have a gun on me,' he reportedly told French magazine Valleurs Actuelles as he made the case for loosened regulations on firearms.
France has strict gun laws and no right to bear arms for its citizens. The U.S. presidential candidate has more than once suggested the laws there be changed there and elsewhere so that victims of such attacks are able to defend themselves.
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WATCH OUT ISIS: Had Donald J Trump been around when ISIS attacked Paris, he says he would have 'opened fire'
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PACKING HEAT?: 'I always have a gun on me,' he reportedly told French magazine Valleurs Actuelles as he made the case for loosened regulations on firearms.
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A spokeswoman for Trump did not respond to DailyMail.com's email asking for confirmation that the Secret Service officers protecting the White House candidate - seen here surrounding him - allow him to pack heat on the stump and take guns on his jet, for that matter
After the Charlie Hebdo massacre in January of 2015, Trump tweeted, 'If the people so violently shot down in Paris had guns, at least they would have had a fighting chance.'
'Isn't it interesting that the tragedy in Paris too place in one of the toughest gun control countries in the world?'
'Remember, when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns!'' he said in a third tweet.
In an interview this month that ran in Valleurs Actuelles, Trump referenced the November terrorist attack on Paris and said, 'Do you really think that if there were people in the crowd, who were armed and trained, things would have turned out the same way?'
'I don't think so. They would have killed the terrorists. It makes sense,' he said.
The GOP front-runner for president then declared: 'I always have a gun on me. I can tell you that if I had been in the Bataclan or in the cafes I would have opened fire.'
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'I may have been killed, but I would have drawn,' he said, according to The Local, a website that curates news from France.
Trump went on to talk about how Paris and France are not what they used to be, and 'there are areas where you have the impression that they are outside the law... that there are some lost territories of the Republic.'
He said, 'French friends tell me they sometimes no longer feel at home in their country.'
A spokeswoman for Trump did not respond to DailyMail.com's email asking for confirmation that the Secret Service officers protecting the White House candidate allow him to pack heat on the stump and take guns on his jet, for that matter.
At an October presidential debate Trump said, 'I do carry on occasion -- sometimes a lot...but I like to be unpredictable.'
That was before he was granted Secret Service protection, however.
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Trump is seen here holding a replica flintlock rifle awarded him by cadets during the Republican Society Patriot Dinner at the Citadel Military College last February in Charleston, South Carolina. He's said in the past he also owns a 'H&K .45 and a .38 Smith & Wesson'
.Several years ago he gave an interview in which he confirmed that he has a 'carry permit - I’ve said that publicly' - and told Emily Miller, then of the Washington Times, 'I own a couple of different guns, but I don’t talk about it.'Trump revealed to her that he owned an 'H&K .45 and a .38 Smith & Wesson.'
Speaking about the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooting, Trump told her, 'If some of the people in the movie theater had a gun, they’d have been shooting at him. Nobody had a gun so they were totally defenseless.'
Miller arrived at the determination after the conversation that Trump was 'a true Second Amendment enthusiast.
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[h=1]Shock national poll has Trump with support of 44 per cent of Republicans as New Hampshire wunderkind John Kasich sucks wind with just 4[/h]
PUBLISHED: 16:53, 12 February 2016 | UPDATED: 18:15, 12 February 2016
Donald Trump is at an all-time high in Republican support following his victory in the New Hampshire primary.
A Morning Consult survey released today puts the ex-reality TV star at 44 percent - a more than two-fold advantage over competitor Ted Cruz.
Runner up in New Hampshire, John Kasich, is nowhere near the billionaire and had the backing of just four percent of his party members and independents who said they're planning to vote Republican in the primary.
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YUUGE SUPPORT: Donald Trump is at an all-time high in Republican support following his victory in the New Hampshire primary
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Survey released today puts the ex-reality TV star, seen here at a rally last night in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 44 percent - a more than two-fold advantage over his closest competitor
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WHO? John Kasich came in second in New Hampshire but has the support of just four Republican voters nationally
.The poll's margin of error was minuscule. And the possible two percent up or down difference wouldn't make much difference any way - Trump's firmly in first, and the remaining Republican candidates are far behind him.Cruz had 17 percent backing him. Ben Carson and Marco Rubio were tied at 10 percent. Jeb Bush was just behind them at eight percent, and Kasich was in last with four.
'Someone else' had one percent and six percent said they're still undecided.
Not included in the results was ex-Virginia governor Jim Gilmore, whose candidacy never took off but remains in the race.
Most of the field's support remained roughly unchanged from a survey taken by the news organization after the Iowa caucus.
.Kasich and Bush gained two points each, but they're still under 10 percent despite doing relatively well in New Hampshire.Cruz saw no change at all in his numbers, and Carson went up by one even though he landed at the bottom of the pack in the last round of voting.
Rubio took a big hit, dropping from 15 percent after Iowa to 10 percent in the wake of his shocking New Hampshire debate performance - which enforced the stereotype that he's a 'robot' - and subsequent defeat.
To the victor in New Hampshire went the spoils. Trump shot up from 38 percent to 44 percent in a matter of days.
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The poll's margin of error was minuscule. And the possible two percent up or down difference wouldn't make much difference any way - Trump's firmly in first, and the remaining Republican candidates are far behind him
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Most of the candidates are in South Carolina now in preparation for the Palmetto state's primary next Saturday.
Trump is campaigning elsewhere as he looks to expand his national support. Yesterday he dropped by Louisiana - a state that votes on March 5 and is crucial to Cruz's plan to beat him to the GOP trophy.
Today he's in Rubio and Bush's home state of Florida. The delegate-rich state is critical to his opponents' efforts to overtake him.
It's a winner-take-all state, meaning that the Republican who comes out on top will be awarded all 99 delegates.
A total of 1,237 delegates are needed to win the nomination of the 2,472 on the table.
Few have been allotted so far, but Trump is in the lead with 17, followed by Cruz with 12, Rubio with 10 and Kasich with five. Bush has four, Carson has three and Gilmore has 0.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton still leads Bernie Sanders nationally in the Morning Consult poll. He's chipping away at her support, though, and has gained four points just this month.
Clinton's shed five points in the same amount of time, with four percent disappearing since Sanders bested her in New Hampshire.
The Democratic Party is now 46 percent Clinton and 39 percent Sanders, with eight percent still holding out for 'someone else' and seven percent claiming to to be undecided.
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- MORNING CONSULT NATIONAL SURVEY: Trump 44 // Cruz 17 // Carson 10 // Rubio 10 // Bush 8 // Kasich 4
- Trump is at an all-time high in Republican support following his victory in the New Hampshire primary
- Kasich came in second there but he's 40 points behind the GOP front-runner in a national poll taken afterward
- Next up: South Carolina Republicans vote next Saturday
- The Democratic race is Clinton 46 vs Sanders 39
- See more of the latest poll news on the GOP presidential primaries
PUBLISHED: 16:53, 12 February 2016 | UPDATED: 18:15, 12 February 2016
Donald Trump is at an all-time high in Republican support following his victory in the New Hampshire primary.
A Morning Consult survey released today puts the ex-reality TV star at 44 percent - a more than two-fold advantage over competitor Ted Cruz.
Runner up in New Hampshire, John Kasich, is nowhere near the billionaire and had the backing of just four percent of his party members and independents who said they're planning to vote Republican in the primary.
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YUUGE SUPPORT: Donald Trump is at an all-time high in Republican support following his victory in the New Hampshire primary
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Survey released today puts the ex-reality TV star, seen here at a rally last night in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 44 percent - a more than two-fold advantage over his closest competitor
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WHO? John Kasich came in second in New Hampshire but has the support of just four Republican voters nationally
.The poll's margin of error was minuscule. And the possible two percent up or down difference wouldn't make much difference any way - Trump's firmly in first, and the remaining Republican candidates are far behind him.Cruz had 17 percent backing him. Ben Carson and Marco Rubio were tied at 10 percent. Jeb Bush was just behind them at eight percent, and Kasich was in last with four.
'Someone else' had one percent and six percent said they're still undecided.
Not included in the results was ex-Virginia governor Jim Gilmore, whose candidacy never took off but remains in the race.
Most of the field's support remained roughly unchanged from a survey taken by the news organization after the Iowa caucus.
.Kasich and Bush gained two points each, but they're still under 10 percent despite doing relatively well in New Hampshire.Cruz saw no change at all in his numbers, and Carson went up by one even though he landed at the bottom of the pack in the last round of voting.
Rubio took a big hit, dropping from 15 percent after Iowa to 10 percent in the wake of his shocking New Hampshire debate performance - which enforced the stereotype that he's a 'robot' - and subsequent defeat.
To the victor in New Hampshire went the spoils. Trump shot up from 38 percent to 44 percent in a matter of days.
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The poll's margin of error was minuscule. And the possible two percent up or down difference wouldn't make much difference any way - Trump's firmly in first, and the remaining Republican candidates are far behind him
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Most of the candidates are in South Carolina now in preparation for the Palmetto state's primary next Saturday.
Trump is campaigning elsewhere as he looks to expand his national support. Yesterday he dropped by Louisiana - a state that votes on March 5 and is crucial to Cruz's plan to beat him to the GOP trophy.
Today he's in Rubio and Bush's home state of Florida. The delegate-rich state is critical to his opponents' efforts to overtake him.
It's a winner-take-all state, meaning that the Republican who comes out on top will be awarded all 99 delegates.
A total of 1,237 delegates are needed to win the nomination of the 2,472 on the table.
Few have been allotted so far, but Trump is in the lead with 17, followed by Cruz with 12, Rubio with 10 and Kasich with five. Bush has four, Carson has three and Gilmore has 0.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton still leads Bernie Sanders nationally in the Morning Consult poll. He's chipping away at her support, though, and has gained four points just this month.
Clinton's shed five points in the same amount of time, with four percent disappearing since Sanders bested her in New Hampshire.
The Democratic Party is now 46 percent Clinton and 39 percent Sanders, with eight percent still holding out for 'someone else' and seven percent claiming to to be undecided.
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'It was a very short evening': Candice Bergen says she DID go on a date with Donald Trump in college but only remembers his matching burgundy suit and limo
- The actress, 70, and Trump, 69, both attended the University of Pennsylvania in the early 1960s
- Bergen says that though they didn't form a love connection, she harbors no ill-will towards Trump, who has always been nice to her
- However, Bergen says she's supporting Hillary Clinton
- On Trump's run, Bergen said: 'I thought it was funnier a few months ago. Now it's worrying'
PUBLISHED: 18:50, 12 February 2016 | UPDATED: 21:50, 12 February 2016
Candice Bergen had a shot with Donald Trump, but she says she has no regrets over what could be a missed opportunity at first lady.
Speaking at the American Songbook Gala in New York City on Thursday night, Bergen confirmed that she did indeed go on a blind date with the Republican front-runner when they were both attending the University of Pennsylvania in the early 1960s.
However, Bergen says she doesn't remember much from the event other than his eccentric get-up.
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It's true! Candice Bergen confirmed on Thursday that she did indeed go on a date with Donald Trump while the two were attending the University of Pennsylvania in the early 1960s
Classmates: Bergen dropped out of Penn after two years, but during her short time there she was named Homecoming Queen and Miss University 1963 (left). Trump pictured on the right, on his graduation day in 1968
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'I have no memory of it. I just remember that he was wearing a three-piece burgundy suit, and burgundy boots and a burgundy limousine. He was very coordinated,' Bergen told People magazine.
That 'very short evening' would be Bergen and Trump's only date.
While Bergen says she's backing Hillary Clinton for president, she harbors no ill-will towards Trump, saying he's continued to be nice to her since their college days.
Still, that doesn't mean she wants to see him in the Oval Office.
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'I thought it was funnier a few months ago,' Bergen says of Trump's campaign. 'Now it's worrying.'
Trump was the first to reveal last August that he had once dated Bergen.
Bergen, the daughter of a model and famous ventriloquist, attended Penn for two years before being forced to leave because she was failing an art and an opera class.
But during her time at Penn, she was named both Homecoming Queen and Miss University.
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She went on to model before getting into acting and starring in the hit TV show Murphy Brown.
Bergen was married to French director Louis Malle from 1980 to 1995.
Her current husband, Marshall Rose, is actually not so different from Trump. Both are New York real estate magnets. Bergen has been married to Rose since 2000.
Meanwhile, Trump has been married three times. First to model Ivana Trump, then actress Marla Maples before marrying current wife, 45-year-old Melania, also a former model.
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Other half: Candice Bergen and her husband Marshall Rose arrive at Lincoln Center's American Songbook Gala Honors Lorne Michaels at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday
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Third time is a charm: Trump has been married three times. His current wife, former model Melania, is 45 years old. Pictured above on February 8
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Im a Republican, I'm a veteran, I do love trump. With that being said I'm still watching the democratic debate just because I like to have full knowledge of everything going on. Hillary Clinton thinks Americans are "racist" and we need reform, cops are bad, prisons are full of blacks, the list goes on and on. Hey bitch we have a court system, people are judged by their peers, if your white and commit a crime you're charged, if your black it's the same. If blacks don't wanna be in prison.... well don't break the fucking law. Don't blame it on being poor I grew up poor, I wanted more for myself. I went to school, got a college degree, joined the military, now I'm a civilian with a job, benefits, wife, child on the way, I own my own house, truck is paid off and I have extra money after bills to enjoy my hobbies like guns, hunting, fishing, truck mods. If you don't like your life, change it. With that being said.... Hillary Clinton, if blacks are so abused and denied employment and whatever else is so bad would you hire these two clowns to work for you?! Practice what you preach bitch.
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Donald J. Trump at USF Sun Dome Arena.
11,000 inside venue tonight in Tampa! Broke record set by Elton John in 1988 w/out musical instruments! Another 5,000 outside. Will be back! THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
11,000 inside venue tonight in Tampa! Broke record set by Elton John in 1988 w/out musical instruments! Another 5,000 outside. Will be back! THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
popcorn-eatinggifpopcorn-eatinggifTrump Breaks Promise, Threatens to Sue Cruz Over Citizenship
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By Al Perrotta Published on February 12, 2016
Al Perrotta
Despite promising mere weeks ago that he wasn’t going to sue Ted Cruz over the issue of Cruz’s citizenship, Donald Trump threatened today to do just that.
Trump, by his own admission, first began raising the birther issue when the Texas senator began rising in the polls. Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and Cuban father. The Constitution’s Article II, Section 1 states “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.” Cruz, himself a constitutional scholar, contends he’s eligible, citing the difference between a natural born citizen and a “naturalized” citizen. Most agree. Even Trump did when the issue was first raised last summer.
Still, Trump slammed and mocked Cruz over his Canadian birth and questioned his eligibility. He cited law scholar Laurence Tribe (a liberal scholar with extensive and longstanding ties to President Obama and the Democratic Party), and Trump’s supporters filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Cruz bid. Trump, though, vowed in a January GOP debate not to take the issue to court himself.
“I’m not bringing a lawsuit,” he said, at the time. “I promise.”
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By Al Perrotta Published on February 12, 2016
Al Perrotta
Despite promising mere weeks ago that he wasn’t going to sue Ted Cruz over the issue of Cruz’s citizenship, Donald Trump threatened today to do just that.
Trump, by his own admission, first began raising the birther issue when the Texas senator began rising in the polls. Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and Cuban father. The Constitution’s Article II, Section 1 states “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.” Cruz, himself a constitutional scholar, contends he’s eligible, citing the difference between a natural born citizen and a “naturalized” citizen. Most agree. Even Trump did when the issue was first raised last summer.
Still, Trump slammed and mocked Cruz over his Canadian birth and questioned his eligibility. He cited law scholar Laurence Tribe (a liberal scholar with extensive and longstanding ties to President Obama and the Democratic Party), and Trump’s supporters filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Cruz bid. Trump, though, vowed in a January GOP debate not to take the issue to court himself.
“I’m not bringing a lawsuit,” he said, at the time. “I promise.”
popcorn-eatinggifpopcorn-eatinggifpopcorn-eatinggifpopcorn-eatinggifTrump Breaks Promise, Threatens to Sue Cruz Over Citizenship
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By Al Perrotta Published on February 12, 2016
Al Perrotta
Despite promising mere weeks ago that he wasn’t going to sue Ted Cruz over the issue of Cruz’s citizenship, Donald Trump threatened today to do just that.
Trump, by his own admission, first began raising the birther issue when the Texas senator began rising in the polls. Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and Cuban father. The Constitution’s Article II, Section 1 states “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.” Cruz, himself a constitutional scholar, contends he’s eligible, citing the difference between a natural born citizen and a “naturalized” citizen. Most agree. Even Trump did when the issue was first raised last summer.
Still, Trump slammed and mocked Cruz over his Canadian birth and questioned his eligibility. He cited law scholar Laurence Tribe (a liberal scholar with extensive and longstanding ties to President Obama and the Democratic Party), and Trump’s supporters filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Cruz bid. Trump, though, vowed in a January GOP debate not to take the issue to court himself.
“I’m not bringing a lawsuit,” he said, at the time. “I promise.”
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02-12-2016, 08:07 PM
BREAKING NEWS: 'Birther' lawsuit filed in federal court directly challenges Canadian-born Ted Cruz's eligibility to be president
By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 19:37, 12 February 2016 | UPDATED: 19:51, 12 February 2016
Five people in northern Alabama have filed a federal lawsuit claiming Texas congressman Ted Cruz is ineligible to run for president.
Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father.
The U.S. Constitution limits the presidency to 'natural born' U.S. citizens. There are differences of opinion on whether or not the federal courts have established what those two words mean.
Cruz's eligibility has been a frequent campaign theme of Donald Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner.
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THEY WANT TO KNOW: Five Alabama supporters of Donald Trump are asking a federal court to declare that Canadian-born Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is ineligible to run for president
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DRUMBEAT: Donald Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, has said repeatedly that Ted Cruz's citizenship could become a problem for the Canadian-born politician
A Cruz spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, said only that he wasn't aware of the lawsuit.
'I haven't seen it,' he told DailyMail.com in an email.
The lawsuit seeks a 'declaratory judgment' from a federal judge 'declaring that Rafael Edward Cruz is ineligible to qualify/run/seek and be elected to the Office of President of the United States of America.'
The plaintiffs, Sebastian Green, Shannon Duncan, Kathryne Spears, Kyle Spears and Jerry Parker are all supporters of Trump's candidacy, according to AL.com.
'Mr. Cruz cannot be a natural born citizen of two (2) countries,' the five argue. 'This would violate elementary rules of logic. Since the Defendant, at the moment of birth, was located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; he became a citizen of Canada by virtue of it.'
'Plaintiffs allege that at the time of Mr. Cruz’s birth, the United States could not confer citizenship upon him under any law or legal theory that exists. "Natural born" means native born within the United States or its dominions/territories. Canada is not a territory of the United States. Whether the Defendant’s mother was/is a United State’s citizen is irrelevant.'
The lawsuit states that Cruz's U.S. citizenship was 'conferred by other means' than the situation of his birth.
And 'if Mr. Cruz were allowed to run as a candidate, the Plaintiffs' right to have only lawful and constitutionally qualified candidates to run would be violated.'
Cruz is himself a constitutional lawyer and former solicitor general of Texas, a job where he argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
He has insisted that the 'birther' argument is a non-starter floated for political purposes. He maintains that since he is not a naturalized citizen, he is 'natural born' under the Constitution's definition.
But Trump has repeatedly talked on the campaign trail about Cruz's place of birth, urging the senator to seek the very kind of declaratory judgment the five Alabama plaintiffs are asking for.
Trump has said if Cruz were to become the Republican Party's presidential nominee, Democratic partisans could sue in order to have his candidacy nullified, throwing the GOP into chaos just a few months before the November election.
- Cruz was born in Calgary, Canada to American mother and Cuban father
- Five supporters of Donald Trump are asking a federal judge to declare that Cruz is not eligible to run for president
- The U.S. Constitution says only 'natural born' citizens can run the country
By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 19:37, 12 February 2016 | UPDATED: 19:51, 12 February 2016
Five people in northern Alabama have filed a federal lawsuit claiming Texas congressman Ted Cruz is ineligible to run for president.
Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father.
The U.S. Constitution limits the presidency to 'natural born' U.S. citizens. There are differences of opinion on whether or not the federal courts have established what those two words mean.
Cruz's eligibility has been a frequent campaign theme of Donald Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner.
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THEY WANT TO KNOW: Five Alabama supporters of Donald Trump are asking a federal court to declare that Canadian-born Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is ineligible to run for president
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DRUMBEAT: Donald Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, has said repeatedly that Ted Cruz's citizenship could become a problem for the Canadian-born politician
A Cruz spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, said only that he wasn't aware of the lawsuit.
'I haven't seen it,' he told DailyMail.com in an email.
The lawsuit seeks a 'declaratory judgment' from a federal judge 'declaring that Rafael Edward Cruz is ineligible to qualify/run/seek and be elected to the Office of President of the United States of America.'
The plaintiffs, Sebastian Green, Shannon Duncan, Kathryne Spears, Kyle Spears and Jerry Parker are all supporters of Trump's candidacy, according to AL.com.
'Mr. Cruz cannot be a natural born citizen of two (2) countries,' the five argue. 'This would violate elementary rules of logic. Since the Defendant, at the moment of birth, was located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; he became a citizen of Canada by virtue of it.'
'Plaintiffs allege that at the time of Mr. Cruz’s birth, the United States could not confer citizenship upon him under any law or legal theory that exists. "Natural born" means native born within the United States or its dominions/territories. Canada is not a territory of the United States. Whether the Defendant’s mother was/is a United State’s citizen is irrelevant.'
The lawsuit states that Cruz's U.S. citizenship was 'conferred by other means' than the situation of his birth.
And 'if Mr. Cruz were allowed to run as a candidate, the Plaintiffs' right to have only lawful and constitutionally qualified candidates to run would be violated.'
Cruz is himself a constitutional lawyer and former solicitor general of Texas, a job where he argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
He has insisted that the 'birther' argument is a non-starter floated for political purposes. He maintains that since he is not a naturalized citizen, he is 'natural born' under the Constitution's definition.
But Trump has repeatedly talked on the campaign trail about Cruz's place of birth, urging the senator to seek the very kind of declaratory judgment the five Alabama plaintiffs are asking for.
Trump has said if Cruz were to become the Republican Party's presidential nominee, Democratic partisans could sue in order to have his candidacy nullified, throwing the GOP into chaos just a few months before the November election.
