From: januarybaybee@gmail.com   
      
   He's feeling the heat from the Democrat side of the spectrum - and especially   
   from the huge outpouring of joy at Biden's appointment of Kamala Harris as his   
   running mate.   
      
   Now we're going to see all the ugly edges of Donald J. Trump come out in the   
   80+ days leading up the the election.  And there are a lot of them.  'Nasty'   
   will be amongst the milder terms for this man.  And remember what kind of   
   supporters he's appealing    
   to.   
      
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   Trump Encourages Racist Conspiracy Theory on Kamala Harris’s Eligibility to   
   Be Vice President   
      
   Trump falsely suggests Kamala Harris, who was born in California, does not   
   meet citizenship requirements.   
      
      
   President Trump on Thursday encouraged a racist conspiracy theory that is   
   rampant among some of his followers: that Senator Kamala Harris, the   
   Democratic vice-presidential running mate born in California, is not eligible   
   for the vice presidency or    
   presidency because her parents were immigrants.   
      
   That assertion is false; Ms. Harris is eligible to serve.   
      
   Mr. Trump, speaking to reporters on Thursday, nevertheless pushed the attack   
   on his opponent. “I heard it today that she doesn’t meet the   
   requirements,” Mr. Trump said.   
      
   “I have no idea if that’s right,” he added. “I would have thought, I   
   would have assumed, that the Democrats would have checked that out before she   
   gets chosen to run for vice president.”   
      
   Mr. Trump appeared to be referring to a widely discredited op-ed article   
   written in Newsweek by John C. Eastman, a conservative lawyer who has long   
   argued that the Constitution does not grant birthright citizenship, as proof.   
   Ms. Harris, the daughter of    
   Jamaican and Indian immigrants, was born in 1964 in Oakland, Calif., several   
   years after her parents arrived in the United States.   
      
   In the hours after Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced Ms. Harris as his running   
   mate, a new crop of memes and conspiracy website posts began proliferating   
   online, suggesting that the junior senator was an “anchor baby” because of   
   her background.   
      
   Mr. Eastman’s column tries to raise questions about the citizenship of Ms.   
   Harris’s parents at the time of her birth, and argues that she may be   
   “owed her allegiance to a foreign power or powers” if her parents were   
   “temporary visitors” and    
   not residents.   
      
   Constitutional law scholars have argued that the argument against her parents   
   is irrelevant and irresponsible because Ms. Harris was born in California.   
      
   The 12th Amendment of the Constitution states that “no person    
   onstitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to   
   that of vice president of the United States.”   
      
   And the requirements for the presidency, outlined in Article II, Section I of   
   the United States Constitution, are these: “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; neither shall any person be   
   eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of 35 years,   
   and been 14 years a resident within the United States.”   
      
   The 14th Amendment of the Constitution makes it even clearer: “All persons   
   born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction   
   thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they   
   reside.”   
      
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   If that's the best Trump and his nasty supporters can do, then they'd better   
   put their desks and lockers in order for a quicker White House exit after the   
   election.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)