Congressman Krishnamoorthi condemns Trump for alleged ‘birther’ claims against Nikki Haley

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Indian-American Nikki Haley automatically became a US citizen as she was born in the country..

Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi has condemned former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, for the alleged birther claims against his primary challenger Nikki Haley...

Last week, Trump reposted a post from conservative The Gateway Pundit, which claimed that Haley might be ineligible to be the US president or the vice president as her parents were not a US citizen when she was born in 1972...

Its sadly no surprise that Donald Trump is back at it with more false and racist birther claims, Indian American Congressman Krishnamoorthi, who is a Democrat, said in a statement on Thursday...

Section Three of the 14th amendment, approved after the Civil War, added that anyone who engaged in or aided an insurrection against the United States after taking an oath to support the Constitution was ineligible to hold any office, civil or military, The New York Times reported...

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