The question referred to an op-ed essay in Newsweek that falsely claims the California senator is ineligible to serve as president because her parents came to the U.S. from other countries.Harris is a U.S. citizen who was born in Oakland, California.
In a Tom Winter is a New York-based correspondent covering crime, courts, terrorism and financial fraud on the East Coast for the NBC News Investigative Unit.Rich Schapiro is a reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit.The ruling by U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero amounted to a second loss in Trump's high-stakes court battle with Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. Trump echoes fringe birther attack on Harris Harris, Joe Biden's vice presidential pick, was born in Oakland, California, and is eligible to be president under the constitutional requirements. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Let our news meet your inbox. When it comes to spending, the Trump campaign is still playing catchup after going back on the air. "Vance’s office subpoenaed Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, in 2019 as part of an investigation into payments the Trump Organization made to two women who have alleged affairs with the president, which he has denied. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Let our news meet your inbox. Her mother emigrated from India and her father from Jamaica.Facebook has flagged claims about Harris' citizenship posted on its site as false, and constitutional law experts swiftly shut down the conspiracy theory, noting that the U.S. Constitution is clear.“To serve as president, one must be at least 35 years old, have been a resident of the United States for at least 14 years, and be a ‘natural born Citizen’ (Harris, who made her first appearance as former Vice President Joe Biden's Trump previously circulated citizenship lies about former President Barack Obama, the country's first Black president, during his election runs in 2008 and 2012.Biden's camp rebuked the Trump campaign, which has also pushed the conspiracy and questioned "Donald Trump was the national leader of the grotesque, racist birther movement with respect to President Obama and has sought to fuel racism and tear our nation apart on every single day of his presidency," Andrew Bates, a campaign spokesperson, said in a statement on Thursday. Hence, NBC White House correspondent Peter Alexander asked why the President wasn’t directing more energy to ensuring states would have the capacity to handle the job.
A federal judge on Thursday denied President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to quash The ruling by U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero amounted to a second loss in Trump’s high-stakes court battle with Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance.Marrero had rejected Trump’s initial attempt to block a subpoena from Vance seeking eight years of his tax returns.The Supreme Court ruled last month that the president is not immune from a grand jury subpoena while in office but allowed him to make an alternative argument to fight it.In his 103-page ruling, Marrero rejected Trump’s new argument that Vance’s subpoena is “wildly broad” and was issued in “bad faith.”“At its core, it amounts to absolute immunity through a back door, an entry point through which not only a President but also potentially other persons and entities, public and private, could effectively gain cover from judicial process,” Marrero wrote.The decision moves Vance one step closer to obtaining the president's financial records. President Donald Trump announced Sunday his administration was providing an emergency authorization for the use of convalescent plasma to treat COVID … NYC Paints Huge Black Lives Matter Mural on 5th Ave in Front of Trump Tower Work on what President Trump called a "symbol of hate" was supposed to start last week but … An administration official told NBC News that Conway told Trump about her decision Sunday evening in the Oval Office.