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Donald Trump goes all birther on Canadian-born GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Trump said Cruz has “an additional hurdle” to overcome and that “you’re supposed to be born in this country” to run for president. Um, he wasted no time….

The reality television host, real estate magnate, and serial almost-presidential candidate who repeatedly demanded that President Barack Obama produce proof that he was born in Hawaii, turned his attention to Senator Ted Cruz on Monday. In an interview with MyFoxNY, Trump said that Cruz’s birthplace, Canada, could be a problem for the Texan’s presidential bid.

“Well he’s got, you know, a hurdle that nobody else seems to have at this moment,” said Trump, who was born in Queens. “It’s a hurdle and somebody could certainly look at it very seriously. He was born in Canada … if you know … and when we all studied our history lessons … you’re supposed to be born in this country, so I just don’t know how the courts would rule on it. But it’s an additional hurdle that he has that no one else seems to have.”

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Trump also suggested that Cruz had borrowed some campaign language from him.

“Well, you know the line of ‘Make America Great Again,’ the phrase, that was mine I came up with about a year ago, and I kept using it and everybody’s now using it, they’re loving it, I don’t know I guess I should copyright it,” Trump said.  Source:  Bloomberg.com

I think being a natural-born American is the least of Ted Cruz’s worries. Pigs will fly first before he gets the nomination but it’s nice to see him align himself with the right wing evangelical fanatics. That alone will keep him out of the White House. Just ask Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum how far it got them. In any case, this presidential season is bound to be hilarious, thanks to characters like Ted Cruz and Ben Carson.

This was cross-posted from The Hinterland Gazette.