President Donald Trump, who earlier amplified a racist conspiracy theory about Sen. Kamala Harris’ citizenship, refused Saturday to say whether the California-born senator was eligible to become vice president. Pressed by a reporter to answer a question on the topic, Trump said only that it was “not something that bothers me.”“I have nothing to do with that,” he said on whether Harris — a natural-born U.S. citizen with immigrant parents from Jamaica and India — should be allowed to run for vice president. “I read something about it, and I will say that he is a brilliant lawyer,” Trump added, referring to law professor John Eastman, who wrote a controversial Newsweek op-ed that questioned whether Harris was entitled to birthright citizenship. “It’s not something that bothers me,” Trump said, adding: “It’s not something that I’m going to be pursuing. If she had a problem, you would’ve thought she would’ve been vetted by Sleepy Joe.”

Source: Huffington Post August 15, 2020 23:37 UTC