Former President Donald Trump is again claiming that a non-white candidate with immigrant parents isn't eligible to run for president.
On Monday (January 8), Trump claimed on his Truth Social account that GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley is disqualified from being president because “reports indicate that her parents were not U.S. citizens at the time of her birth in 1972," per HuffPost.
Trump made the claim despite Haley, who has immigrant parents from India, being born in South Carolina.
It's the same accusation Trump previously lodged against former President Barack Obama, Vice President Kamala Harris and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas.).
Trump fueled conspiracy theories that Obama, a Hawaii native, was instead born in Kenya. Trump infamously demanded Obama provide a copy of his birth certificate to prove his place of birth, which the former president did.
In 2016, Haley, the governor of South Carolina at the time, even joked that Trump would make the same claim against her.
“Even though I gave the [State of the Union] response, I won’t really feel like I made it until Donald Trump demands to see my birth certificate,” Haley said the annual Gridiron Dinner in Washington.
In August 2020, Trump posed similar questions about Harris' citizenship even though she was born in Oakland, California. Trump tried to claim that Cruz, whose mother was born in America and whose Cuban father was born in Canada, was also disqualified from running for president in 2016.
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