Republican presidential candidate and constant front-runner Donald Trump is recycling one of his favorite claims against political rivals: their supposed ineligibility to run for office. This time, the target isn’t Barack Obama or Ted Cruz. Instead, it’s Trump’s own former ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley. As with his previous attempts, this one falls flat.
Trump recently shared a post reportedly presenting “constitutional interpretation” by Paul Ingrassia, a 2022 law school graduate. The analysis concludes that because Haley’s parents were not United States citizens at the time of her birth in South Carolina in 1972, she is ineligible to run for either president or vice president. The post has since garnered more than 2,600 shares and more than 7,000 likes on the site.
