Donald Trump fuels ‘birther’ conspiracy theory about Kamala Harris – By Sky News Staff (Sky News) / Aug 14 2020
The US president repeats a discredited conspiracy theory which questions Kamala Harris’s eligibility to serve in the White House.
US President Donald Trump has fuelled a discredited conspiracy theory about Joe Biden’s Democratic running mate Kamala Harris which suggested she may not be eligible to serve in the White House.
Born to a Jamaican father and Indian mother in Oakland, California, in 1964, Ms Harris would be the first black and Asian American vice president if Mr Biden wins the November election.
Mr Trump – who for years led the false so-called “birther” movement which cast doubt on former president Barack Obama’s US citizenship and eligibility to serve – told reporters he had “heard” that she “doesn’t qualify”.
He was responding to a question about an article in Newsweek by John Eastman, a conservative law professor, who questioned Ms Harris’s eligibility under the US Constitution because both of her parents are immigrants – a theory that critics have branded “racist”.
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