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Trump Just Threatened To Do Something MASSIVE If Ted Cruz Doesn’t Do These 3 Things
Donald Trump, whose “visceral” campaign has him atop the field of Republican presidential hopefuls, continued to push the envelope Friday as he ratcheted up his war of words with rival Sen. Ted Cruz.
“If @TedCruz doesn’t clean up his act, stop cheating, & doing negative ads, I have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen,” said a Trump Friday in one part of a double-barreled Twitter slam at Cruz.
“How can Ted Cruz be an Evangelical Christian when he lies so much and is so dishonest?” Trump tweeted earlier.
If @TedCruz doesn’t clean up his act, stop cheating, & doing negative ads, I have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 12, 2016
Cruz pushed back just as hard.
“There is more than a little irony in Donald accusing anyone of being nasty given the amazing torrent of insults and obscenities and vulgarities that come out of his mouth,” Cruz said. “Being attacked by Donald, it is always colorful. I will give him this: he’s not boring.”
Legal scholars have been split on Trump’s claim that Cruz’s Canadian birth might make him ineligible to serve as president due to the Constitutional requirement that the president be a “natural born” American.
Mary Brigid McManamon, a constitutional law professor at Delaware Law School, said her belief is that Cruz is not a natural born citizen based on a strict interpretation of the Constitution, and that Trump has standing to sue.
She said in theory, Trump should win a suit, but reality might be different.
“It would be interesting to see if a court would actually take it,” she said. “They really don’t want to be in the middle of a political hot potato.”
Trump’s attacks on Cruz are part of a larger pattern.
“Trump is running an exceptionally visceral campaign. His goal is not so much the inspiration of the country as the domination of the other candidates. And it has generally worked. They respond to his attacks, hush when he shushes them and envy his huge . . . poll numbers,” wrote Michael Gerson in The Washington Post.
h/t: Young Conservatives
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/trump-just-threatened-to-do-something-massive-if-ted-cruz-doesnt-do-these-3-things/
