‘Totally baseless’: Trump denounced for Nikki Haley ‘birther’ lie
by Martin Pengelly in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6HR53)
Former president promotes racist conspiracy theory that Haley, born in South Carolina and a US citizen, is not qualified for office
A leading professor of US constitutional law condemned Donald Trump for playing the race card" by propagating the totally baseless" claim that Nikki Haley, his surging rival for the Republican presidential nomination, is not qualified because her parents were not US citizens when she was born.
The birther claims against Nikki Haley are totally baseless as a legal and constitutional matter," Laurence Tribe, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, told NBC.
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