Trump Breaks Promise, Threatens to Sue Cruz Over Citizenship

By Al Perrotta Published on February 12, 2016

Despite promising mere weeks ago that he wasn’t going to sue Ted Cruz over the issue of Cruz’s citizenship, Donald Trump threatened today to do just that.

Trump, by his own admission, first began raising the birther issue when the Texas senator began rising in the polls. Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and Cuban father. The Constitution’s Article II, Section 1 states “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.” Cruz, himself a constitutional scholar, contends he’s eligible, citing the difference between a natural born citizen and a “naturalized” citizen. Most agree. Even Trump did when the issue was first raised last summer.

Still, Trump slammed and mocked Cruz over his Canadian birth and questioned his eligibility. He cited law scholar Laurence Tribe (a liberal scholar with extensive and longstanding ties to President Obama and the Democratic Party), and Trump’s supporters filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Cruz bid. Trump, though, vowed in a January GOP debate not to take the issue to court himself.

“I’m not bringing a lawsuit,” he said, at the time. “I promise.”

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