Marco Rubio’s parents are Latino immigrants? You’re kidding!
by digby
The other day I wrote about a GOP meme that Rubio is ineligible to run for president because his parents weren’t citizens when he was born. And guess what?
On Saturday, Trump retweeted a tweet that suggested the Florida senator was not a citizen, George Stephanopoulos asked him about it on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday morning.
Rubio was born in Florida on May 28, 1971. His parents had come to the United States from Cuba in 1950s. Trump retweeted a tweet on Saturday that suggested both Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz were ineligible to be president.
There is a lawsuit pending in Broward County, Florida, challenging the eligibility of both Cruz and Rubio — Cruz because of where he was born, Rubio because of where his parents were born. An initial hearing of Michael Voeltz’s suit is to be held March 4 in front of Judge John Bowman.
“I think the lawyers have to determine that that — and not— it was a retweet, not so much with Marco. I’m not really that familiar with Marco’s circumstances,” Trump said Sunday morning.
“But then why retweet it?” Stephanopoulos asked.
“Because I’m not sure. I mean, let people make their own determination. I know Ted is being now — I think he’s being sued by somebody having nothing to do with me, by the way,” Trump said.
“You’re really not sure that Marco Rubio is eligible to run for president? You’re really not sure?” Stephanopoulos asked.
“I don’t know. I really — I’ve never looked at it, George. I honestly have never looked at it. As somebody said, he’s not. And I retweeted it. I have 14 million people between Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and I retweet things, and we start dialogue and it’s very interesting,” Trump said.
See, he just retweets things and it starts “a dialog” and it’s very interesting. These used to be called dirty whisper campaigns. But now, with social media, you can blast this garbage out and have millions of people “having a dialog about it” within minutes.
What a slimy hitman he is, a real character assassin. But that’s what they love about him.
And, just as his similar insinuations about Cruz, this is all designed to draw attention to the fact that Rubio is one of those damned foreigners and you can’t trust a one of ’em. Look for some anti-Catholic stuff soon. It’s all part of Trumps disgusting game.
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