by Sharon Rondeau
(Feb. 15, 2023) — As she suggested in recent interviews, on Tuesday former United Nations Ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nimrata Nikki Haley (R) announced she will seek the 2024 Republican nomination for president.
Earlier this month multiple sources reported Haley would officially launch her campaign on February 15, an event scheduled for 11:00 a.m. Wednesday in Charleston, SC, CNBC reported Tuesday.
As an apparent Trump loyalist at the time, Haley had pledged not to seek the nomination if Trump himself were a candidate. Trump declared his 2024 candidacy on November 15.
Her tenure as U.N. ambassador spanned less than two years.
According to her public life narrative, Haley was born in 1972 in Bamberg, SC to two Indian “immigrants,” as was restated by “Fox & Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt Wednesday at 7:11 a.m.
Of her background, Wikipedia reports:
Haley was born Nimrata Nikki Randhawa[7] to immigrant Indian Punjabi Sikh parents at Bamberg County Hospital in Bamberg, South Carolina.[8][9] Her father, Ajit Singh Randhawa, and her mother, Raj Kaur Randhawa, immigrated to the United States from Amritsar District, Punjab, India.[10] Her father was formerly a professor at Punjab Agricultural University, and her mother received her law degree from the University of Delhi.[11] Haley was known under her middle name, Nikki, a Punjabi name, from her earliest years.[12]
Haley’s parents moved to Canada after her father received a scholarship offer from the University of British Columbia. When her father received his PhD in 1969, he moved his family to South Carolina, after accepting a position as a professor at Voorhees College, a historically black institution.[13]
Her mother, Raj Randhawa, earned a master’s degree in education and taught for seven years in Bamberg public schools. In 1976 she started a popular clothing boutique, Exotica International. It closed in 2008.[11]
Haley has a sister and two brothers. Her sister, Simran, born in Canada, became a radio host and Fashion Institute of Technology alumna. Her brother, Mitti, retired as a member of the United States Army Chemical Corps having served in Desert Storm; her second brother, Charan, is a web designer.[14]
Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution requires all presidential candidates to be a “natural born Citizen,” which modern interpretation holds equates to no more than birth in the United States. However, as The Post & Email has reported since 2009, history points to a more stringent interpretation of the term of art, suggested by Founding Father John Jay in a letter to George Washington during the Constitutional Convention, which included the citizenship of a candidate’s parents so as to avoid any chance of foreign influence on the chief executive and commander-in-chief of the military.
With the passage of the 12th Amendment in 1804, vice-presidential candidates must meet those same requirements.
In December 2017, amid rumors then-U.S. Senator from California Kamala D. Harris would seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, former constituent Gary Wilmott contacted Harris’s office to ask if her parents were U.S. citizens when she was born. Despite repeated attempts on Wilmott’s part to obtain a response, none was forthcoming.
The Post & Email also received no response from Harris’s office on the question.
During the 2020 presidential cycle, then-Chapman University Prof. of Law John Eastman suggested that despite her birth in Oakland, CA, Harris should not even have been granted U.S. citizenship given that her parents were present in the country only on student visas, an opinion which earned him excoriation by the mainstream media, including at National Review.
According to documents obtained by the Twitter account @kamalakancel with a website of the same name, Harris’s mother may never have obtained U.S. citizenship prior to her death in 2009.
Harris’s father’s Stanford University biography states he naturalized as a U.S. citizen but not when. Documents obtained by reader and presidential-eligibility activist Robert C. Laity show Donald J. Harris became a naturalized U.S. citizen in September 1981.
According to former Newsmax and OANN journalist and current contributor to Mike Lindell’s
“Frankspeech” website Emerald Robinson on Tuesday, Haley did not voluntarily leave her post at the United Nations.
“She was forced out,” Robinson tweeted. “How do I know? Because her staff showed up to office & found the doors locked. Their phones were disabled. Then they called me.”
Robinson’s comment included a tweet from her account dated October 9, 2018 in which she questioned Haley’s alleged resignation at the time. “Sources tell me her staff was ‘locked out’ with no phones,” she wrote.
According to Politico on Monday, attorney, businessman and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy “has his eye on the presidency.”
Of his life narrative Wikipedia reports:
Ramaswamy was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.[8][9] His parents immigrated from Kerala, India. His father, V.G., graduated from a regional engineering college in Kerala, and later worked at the General Electric Plant in Evendale, Ohio. His mother, Geetha, was a geriatric psychiatrist in Cincinnati.[10] The Ramaswamys are Brahmin-caste Hindus. Vivek has argued that American-style capitalism provides an antidote to the caste system in India by offering lower-caste citizens more economic opportunities. [11]
Politico‘s Daniel Lippman reported that “Ramaswamy doesn’t necessarily want to run on his businessman track record. Instead he is planning to launch an ideas-based campaign focused on revitalizing the American spirit and bringing back a culture of merit into society.” Lippman additionally quotes Ramaswamy as having told him, “I believe that I’ve developed a vision for American national identity that I have deep conviction for and is the product of my own journey of having lived the gifts that this country has afforded me. And the combination of both doing it intellectually and having personally experienced that vision of our nation makes me well suited to articulate that and deliver on it.”
For his part, earlier this month Trump acknowledged Haley’s impending announcement by wishing her well and urging her to “follow her heart.”
Beginning in 2010, the future 45th president was the subject of strident media criticism and ridicule for his having questioned the presidential eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama, who claims he was born in Hawaii in 1961 to an American-citizen mother and British-citizen father. Trump, however, appeared to believe Obama was hiding something about his past, a theory which burgeoned after an image was published by the Obama White House in 2011 said to be a scan of Obama’s “long-form” birth certificate from the Hawaii Department of Health (HDOH) in Honolulu but quickly claimed to be a forgery by some analysts.
A 5+-year investigation conducted by a volunteer arm of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) led by former detective Mike Zullo determined the image to be a “computer-generated forgery,” a conclusion similar to those reached by two forensic examiners from divergent disciplines who Zullo commissioned for the probe.
As with Trump, the press disparaged Zullo and Arpaio for their efforts and pointed to numerous statements issued by the HDOH appearing to indicate Obama’s original birth record was properly recorded and stored within their files, although in 2010, then-newly-elected Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie said he was unable to locate it.
Zullo has also definitively contradicted parts of Obama’s “mainstream” life story and claimed to this writer that Abercrombie, among others, was “involved in a cover-up.”
Presidential candidates from recent history whose eligibility was challenged include former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal; US Senator from Texas Ted Cruz; 2008 Republican presidential nominee John S. McCain; Harris, who initially launched a presidential bid prior to becoming Joe Biden’s pick for vice president; Florida Sen. Marco Rubio; and former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
Persons who parents aren’t US Citizens aren’t Natural Born Citizens here’s why.
Many cite the 14th amendment as making persons born in the US eligible for the Presidency, that’s incorrect because when the 14th amendment was ratified Native Americans were excluded because they’re subject to the jurisdiction of tribes, Congress clearly didn’t want persons subject to the jurisdiction of a foreign nation to be citizens, that’s clearly what dual citizens are and US govt makes that abundantly clear in their rules for dual citizens, yes there are rules dual citizens are required to obey, many born dual citizens probably aren’t away of this. It’s not in all cases but many nations automatically confer Citizenship upon birth regardless where the birth takes place.
The media and the so called constitutional scholars are snowballing the American people. They have never asked Harris, Haley Romney or Ramaswamy if they hold or have held dual citizenship. If they have they aren’t Natural Born Citizens. Ted Cruz thought renouncing his Canadian citizenship would resolve his eligibility issue but he’s wrong! One is either one at birth or not, one can’t right a letter to Canada and poof become a Natural Born Citizen. The Natural Born Citizenship clause is about sole allegiance to the United States and the only way that occurs is through being born in one of the states of The United States to parents whom are both US citizens. End of story!
Look up former Senator Orrin Hatch’s “Equal Opportunity to Govern” amendment to the constitution. In it you will read a misguided attempt by pulling heart strings to make it appear being born on US soil to parents who are US citizens is just too harsh a judgement to disallow immigrants the opportunity to be president! It also strikes at the reality by serving your country abroad and you want your kid to be a natural-born citizen, you will need to be sure mom is at the in-laws house in Ft Worth Texas to insure that and not at Aviano AFB in Italy! According to the State Department, being born abroad is no guaranty you will maintain US citizenship! Just a word of caution.
Where are John Roberts and his merry band of associates anointed for life? You know, the ones that have been “EVADING” the natural born American citizen controversy, which, by the way, is likely the most important matter (from a national security standpoint) facing our country today. You have witnessed, have you not, the myriad of idiotic, woke, racist, lawless, and sinful if not satanic ideologies and behaviors occurring all throughout our society today. This, I contend, began in earnest when, thanks to you John Roberts and others, you sold out your soul and cleared the way for a CONSTITUTIONALLY INELIGIBLE CANDIDATE to become our country’s “president” and “commander-in-chief” in 2009. Of course, I’m talking about our first radical Islamist, sexually deviant, Marxist, ethnically Arab American (94%) instead of Black (56%), president BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. Obama stated that he would “TRANSFORM” our country, and, as it turns out, this is one time he told the truth. In my opinion, most of our society’s ills began with Obama’s ELECTION FRAUD and public idolization in 2008 and have continued practically non-stop ever since. THAT, MY FRIENDS, IS WHAT YOU RISK GETTING (IN OBAMA’S CASE, A “MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE”) WHEN YOU ALLOW CONSTITUTIONALLY UNQUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS TO STEAL THE U. S. PRESIDENCY. The “door” was opened in 2008-09, and John Roberts welcomed inside our republic the first presidential USURPER. How many more is it going to take to convince you that Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 needs to be defined, or ratified and explained as is?
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CDR Kerchner (Ret)
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