ニューヨーク・タイムズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク・タイムズInstagram)「President Trump on Thursday encouraged a racist conspiracy theory that is rampant among some of his followers: that Senator Kamala Harris was not eligible for the vice presidency or presidency because her parents were immigrants. That assertion is false. Harris is eligible to serve. Still, Trump pushed forward with the attack, reminiscent of the lie he perpetrated for years that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya. “I heard it today that she doesn’t meet the requirements,” Trump said of Harris. “I have no idea if that’s right,” he added. “I would have thought, I would have assumed, that the Democrats would have checked that out before she gets chosen to run for vice president.” Trump appeared to be referring to a widely discredited op-ed article published in Newsweek by John C. Eastman, a conservative lawyer who has long argued that the Constitution does not grant birthright citizenship. Harris, the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, was born in 1964 in Oakland, California, several years after her parents arrived in the U.S. Constitutional law scholars say that the immigration status of Harris’s parents at the time of her birth is irrelevant because under the Constitution, anyone born in the United States automatically acquires citizenship. But Trump was in effect revisiting an old tactic: spreading a race-based and anti-immigrant crusade he started nearly a decade ago, when he began sowing distrust in the background of Obama, who was born in Hawaii. Tap the link in our bio to read more.」8月15日 0時24分