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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Sun Jan 17, 2016, 07:11 PM Jan 2016

Donald Trump may sue Ted Cruz over presidential eligibility: ‘When I file suits, I file real suits’

Appearing on ABC’s This Week, 2016 GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump said he just might might consider filing a suit against rival Ted Cruz over his eligibility to become president by warning, “When I file suits, I file real suits.”

Citing legal scholars who have questioned whether Cruz qualifies as a “natural born U.S. citizen,” Trump pointed out to host George Stephanopolous that a lawsuit – recently filed in Texas — was inevitable as Cruz continued to campaign for the presidency.


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/donald-trump-may-sue-ted-cruz-over-his-eligibility-to-be-president-when-i-file-suits-i-file-real-suits/

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Donald Trump may sue Ted Cruz over presidential eligibility: ‘When I file suits, I file real suits’ (Original Post) UCmeNdc Jan 2016 OP
So Trump cannot keep the same opinion more than 2 days in a row ... Mass Jan 2016 #1
I was wondering how long it was going to take Kelvin Mace Jan 2016 #2
What are the odds this actually makes it to trial? Initech Jan 2016 #3
What ever happened with his lawsuit against Univision? (nt) stone space Jan 2016 #4
I hope Trump files suit... VMA131Marine Jan 2016 #5
I agree, but for additional reasons jaysunb Jan 2016 #7
Delaware has produced her birth certificate. former9thward Jan 2016 #10
Thank you. I will now remove my jaysunb Jan 2016 #12
Trump would have standing to file such a lawsuit Gothmog Jan 2016 #6
Yeah he won 4 whole dollars from the NFL underpants Jan 2016 #8
From the guy who sues comedians to make them prove their jokes are true. arcane1 Jan 2016 #9
Post removed Post removed Jan 2016 #11
Listen here Rafael bdwker Jan 2016 #13
Let these nitwits eat their own Mendocino Jan 2016 #14
and all my suits are made in china dembotoz Jan 2016 #15
maybe he can send his imaginary Hawaiian investigators to find "amazing things" Adenoid_Hynkel Jan 2016 #16
America's wannabe Sewer-In-Chief. Hortensis Jan 2016 #17

Mass

(27,315 posts)
1. So Trump cannot keep the same opinion more than 2 days in a row ...
Sun Jan 17, 2016, 07:13 PM
Jan 2016

and this is what the GOP base wants as its nominee.

During the debate, he said he would not sue.

VMA131Marine

(4,138 posts)
5. I hope Trump files suit...
Sun Jan 17, 2016, 07:23 PM
Jan 2016

if only to smack down all the Obama birthers who insisted that a natural born citizen had to be born in the US of two citizen parents. On the other hand, who knows what this court will decide. There's at least a 1% chance that Trump actually wins. Unlike all the other birther suits, he will be unique in that he almost certainly has standing to sue.

jaysunb

(11,856 posts)
7. I agree, but for additional reasons
Sun Jan 17, 2016, 07:38 PM
Jan 2016

In 2007 we found out about every relative in Kansas and beyond of then candidate Obama. Like with Cruz, we know his father was not a US citizen. but his Mother was. So, who is this mysterious Mother of Cruz ? I've heard plenty stories about her Baltimore or Delaware origins, but find it strange that no relatives or former neighbors have come forward to vouch for or recall her family.

On this one I'll proudly wear this

former9thward

(31,984 posts)
10. Delaware has produced her birth certificate.
Sun Jan 17, 2016, 07:52 PM
Jan 2016

Unless you think some official in Delaware used a time machine to go back to 1934 and fake it.

Response to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Mendocino

(7,486 posts)
14. Let these nitwits eat their own
Sun Jan 17, 2016, 08:29 PM
Jan 2016

while we watch. Funny how earlier in this campaign Cruz seemed comfortable with Trump, I even thought a Trump/Cruz ticket
could be possible. With this development, it seems Cruz must not have kissed Trumps ring enough.

 

Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)
16. maybe he can send his imaginary Hawaiian investigators to find "amazing things"
Sun Jan 17, 2016, 08:45 PM
Jan 2016

you know, the stuff he said he would "reveal soon" back in 2011.

Not a single one of Trump sycophantic interviewers in the media has ever pressed him on how he lied to the nation for months about that one.

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