Donald Trump seems to have run out of real issues to assault Ted Cruz with and has wandered into a realm of near make-believe. Now, I can't look into Trump's mind to determine if he is serious or not, but I'm thinking that this is just another "Trumpism" to keep Donald current and relevant in the public's mind.
What I'm talking about is Trump's questioning of Ted Cruz's citizenship as a natural born citizen of the United States. Most people, by now, know that Ted Cruz was born in Canada to a Cuban father and an American mother. I'm not going to go into a detailed legal dissertation on Cruz's citizenship, other than to provide a link to Andrew McCarthy, former Untied States District Attorney, and his assessment of Cruz's citizenship status, which he upholds
What I find amusing are all the argumentation gymnastics employed by liberals and others not enamored of Ted Cruz, to absolutely prove that Cruz's claim to citizenship is not "settled law", as if every possible iteration of citizenship must be litigated in order for it to be "settled law". I watched Geraldo Riviera become practically apoplectic when arguing that Cruz either was not a United States citizen under a host of ancient legal citations or that it was not "settled law" and could be a major problem for the Cruz campaign. It's as if Geraldo Riviera is some kind of Constitutional scholar, like Barack Obama. Now that is a thigh slapper for me.
I further find it amusing that Donald Trump has brought this issue up, as if he is genuinely concerned that it might be a real legal or political issue for Cruz and the GOP, if Cruz were to become elected President of the United States. Nice to know you're concerned Donald.
Now, let's not forget that Ted Cruz is a graduate of Harvard Law School, much like our feckless president. Cruz would go on to work for a nationally recognized law firm in high profile litigation cases, not to mention becoming the Solicitor General for the state of Texas. In that last role, Tex Cruz argued 11 cases before the United States Supreme Court, which makes Cruz one of the few lawyers to appear that many times before the SCOTUS.
Somehow, I'm thinking that Ted Cruz has already assessed the status of his citizenship and has come to believe, like most rational people in the legal field, that Cruz, indeed, meets the requirement for United States citizenship in order to run for President of the United States. The law may not be exactly "settled law" to within a "gnats ass crack" to satisfy some people, but I'm thinking that the SCOTUS wouldn't touch this with Donald Trump's hairdo.
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