see url:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/13/politics/trump-news-conference-birtherism-kamala-harris-biden-attacks-fact-check/index.html
see full article and video. It is to be expected that Trump will use
this strategy again. After all...it worked a little bit during one
Presidential election and forced Obama to prove his US citizenship. I
wonder if Trump is a true US citizen? Has anyone seen his birth
certificate? Bad enough getting access to his tax records...Does he
even live in America...or the planet...for that matter...;-)
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump spent years pushing lies about
the birthplace and presidential eligibility of President Barack Obama,
the first Black president.
On Thursday, he started floating a new birther lie about Sen. Kamala
Harris, who, if elected, would be the first Black and Asian American
vice president.
Trump's incendiary nonsense about Harris was part of a Thursday
self-described "news conference" he largely used to campaign against his
Democratic election opponents. Trump also made a series of false claims
about former Vice President Joe Biden, Democrats more broadly, and,
again, about mail-in voting.
Kamala Harris's eligibility
Trump was told about claims on "social media" that Harris might be
ineligible to serve as president and vice president. He was then asked
if he can definitively say that she meets the requirements.
Trump said, "I heard today that she doesn't meet the requirements." He
referred to a lawyer who raised the issue in a Newsweek article, Chapman
University professor John Eastman, as "very highly qualified."
Trump then said he has "no idea" whether it's true Harris doesn't meet
the requirements. He then asked the reporter if she was saying Harris
doesn't qualify because Harris "wasn't born in this country."
Facts First: Harris was born in Oakland, California. Therefore, as a
natural born citizen, she meets the Constitution's requirements to serve
as vice president or president. There is no serious question about this.
The fact that Harris's parents were immigrants -- her father came from
Jamaica, her mother from India -- does not change the fact that she is
indisputably eligible.
Trump did say that he is not certain if Harris is eligible or not; he
concluded his comments by saying, "I just heard about it, I'll take a
look." Nonetheless, his just-asking-questions posture -- which he also
employed with his Obama birtherism -- doesn't change the fact that he
gave credence to the conspiracy theory by praising the author of the
article, saying he had heard Harris is not eligible, and raising the
possibility that Harris was not born in the US.
Trump spent the beginning of his news conference lambasting Biden.
Here's a look at the facts around some of those attacks.
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