Here's how to shut up eligibility trolls. Say, "by your logic, Trump is not eligible
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Now look who's getting grilled over eligibility
The question comes in the wake of high-profile statements by the billionaire developer and Palm Beach resident who has suggested Barack Obama’s presidency could be “illegal” if he does not release his long-form, hospital-specified birth certificate to prove he’s constitutionally qualified to occupy the White House.
“To be honest with you, I want him to have a birth certificate,” Trump said on Fox News, “because [otherwise] that would mean that his presidency was, I guess you’d have to say, illegal. You have to be born in the United States.”
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Trump this week released two copies of his original birth certificates, one from the Jamaica Hospital in Queens, N.Y., and the other long-form, official government document from the New York Department of Health, confirming Trump’s birthplace at Jamaica Hospital on June 14, 1946.
But some have still wondered if Trump can be considered a “natural born citizen” as the Constitution requires since his mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, was born in Stornoway, Scotland, thus giving her British citizenship at her birth in 1912. Donald’s father, real-estate mogul Frederick Christ Trump, was an American by birth in New York City in 1905.
AOL News contributor Mara Gay suggested one of the reasons why Donald Trump may be pushing the eligibility issue is because “he’s trying to deflect attention from his own shady, Scottish origins.”
Columnist Ben Smith at Politico jokingly wrote, “Trump’s mother, it should be noted, was born in Scotland, which is not part of the United States. His plane is registered in the Bahamas, also a foreign country. This fact pattern – along with the wave of new questions surrounding what he claims is a birth certificate – raises serious doubts about his eligibility to serve as president of the United States.”
While the Constitution itself does not provide a definition of natural-born citizen, those challenging President Obama have asserted that it requires not only a birth having taken place on U.S. soil, but also that both parents of the child have to be U.S. citizens at the time of the child’s birth. Only Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was a U.S. citizen when Obama was born, while his father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., was a British subject, having been born in Kenya.
Now the Birthers.org website, which has been among those questioning Obama’s eligibility, reports that Trump’s mother did indeed become a U.S. citizen before the birth of Donald. It displays a small image of a signed naturalization receipt for Mrs. Trump on March 10, 1942, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, four years before Donald was born.
WND found a larger image of the document in the National Archives, showing details for Mary Anne Trump, including her home address of 175 24 Devonshire Rd. in Jamaica, N.Y. and her age of 29 at the time of the record.
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