by Sharon Rondeau, h/t WVA
(Jan. 18, 2024) — Toward the end of an 8+-minute interview Wednesday with law clerk, writer and legal scholar Paul Ingrassia, “War Room” host Steve Bannon pledged to “get into” the subject of the Constitution’s Article II, Section 1, clause 5 presidential requirement of “natural born Citizen.”
On January 8, 45th President and 2024 leading Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump reposted a graphic on his TruthSocial account from an analysis at The Gateway Pundit of a January 1, 2024 editorial Ingrassia wrote positing that 2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is not constitutionally eligible to the post. As was arguably predictable, Trump’s repost stirred up a mainstream-media maelstrom similar to that which took place in 2011 when Trump stridently called for Barack Obama to release his “long-form” birth certificate to prove his eligibility.
Bannon hosted Ingrassia to discuss recent allegations made by a defendant, Michael Roman, in a criminal case brought by Fulton County, GA District Attorney Fani Willis against Roman and 18 other defendants, including Trump, for allegedly conspiring to “overturn” the declared results of the November 3, 2020 presidential election in which Democrat Joe Biden was declared the winner of the state’s 16 electoral votes.
An explosive court filing by an attorney for Roman alleged Willis is romantically involved with the individual she appointed to be her chief prosecutor in the case against Trump, Nathan Wade.
Wade’s bio begins:
A Former Prosecutor and natural born trial Attorney, Nathan J. Wade is a seasoned attorney licensed to practice in all of Georgia’s courts. He is a skilled negotiator who knows when to take a case to trial.
He serves the citizens of Cobb County as Associate Municipal Court Judge and as a Pro Has State Court Judge.
Whether you are in need of representation after a major car accident or are going through a change in your personal life that requires representation with a family law issue; whether you have a contract dispute, or whether you are involved in any type of civil litigation, Nathan J. Wade will be a zealous advocate for you.
The story, broken January 8 by the Atlanta Journal Constitution reads, in part:
Willis and Wade, the motion contends, “have been engaged in an improper, clandestine personal relationship during the pendency of this case, which has resulted in the special prosecutor, and, in turn, the district attorney, profiting significantly from this prosecution at the expense of the taxpayers.”
A problem with Wade’s appointment is that it was not approved by the Fulton board of commissioners as required by law, the motion said. The motion also questions Wade’s credentials, contending he has never prosecuted a felony case. (Wade was an assistant solicitor for Cobb County in 1999. The office handles misdemeanor cases.)
Until Willis’s appointment of him, Wade was “basically a traffic-court judge” (1:37) who had never presided over a case “beyond a misdemeanor” and was “patently inexperienced to take on a case of this magnitude,” Ingrassia told Bannon Wednesday.
In a court filing in a related matter, Wade’s wife, from whom Wade sought a divorce the day after his appointment, alleged her estranged husband’s income from Willis’s assignment amounted to “$700,000” and was not disclosed, Ingrassia reported (2:03).
“He (Wade) should have been readily familiar with how divorce proceedings work,” Ingrassia continued (2:45), but “withheld critical financial disclosures” for which the court ultimately found him in contempt.
For confirmation of the claims, Ingrassia referred to Roman’s filing, styled as a “Motion to Dismiss,” and a Breitbart report claiming Willis’s office received “$14 million from the Justice Department to add to their budget.”
The funds were disbursed “between 2020 and 2023,” Breitbart reported January 12. ”The timeframe of the funds suggests the DOJ granted Willis federal funds to finance former President Donald Trump’s prosecution.”
Referencing the Georgia constitution, Ingrassia called on Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to appoint his attorney general, Chris Carr, to see that Wade and Willis are “disciplined sternly by the Georgia Bar” (State Bar of Georgia).
“The only just remedy for the amount of improprieties in this case,” Ingrassia said, is to “dismiss the indictment without prejudice” and appoint a new district attorney. “…let them start from scratch with a new special-purpose grand jury, and depending on the outcome, a regular grand jury to see if a new indictment can be returned…,” he said.
“Brian Kemp has the power to do it, and public pressure has to ratchet up to get Brian Kemp to respond to his constituents,” Ingrassia concluded.
With 7:30 left in the segment, Bannon changed the subject with, “You’ve also written a very controversial piece about natural born Citizens. I don’t have time to take it up today, but it is a [sic] quite big topic that we’ve gotta get into, so we’re going to have you back…”
An important new article has been written by constitutional scholar and attorney #PaulIngrassia about the “natural born Citizen” term Presidential Eligibility requirement and #NikkiHaley’s lack thereof: https://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/2024/01/19/no-the-constitution-does-not-allow-children-born-of-non-citizens-to-become-president-of-the-united-states-by-paul-ingrassia/ #2024Election #DonaldTrump #naturalborncitizen
CDR Kerchner (Ret)
http://www.ProtectOurLiberty.org
Here’s the basic question that should be asked of Haley & Harris, do you currently hold or have you ever held foreign citizenship if the answer is yes to either they definitely aren’t Natural Born Citizens.
When it was discovered that Ted Cruz held Canadian citizenship he knew that was a problem and he moved to renounce it but for the purposes of Constitutional eligibility it was an irrelevant move, a Natural Born Citizen would never have to write a letter to a foreign government requesting cancellation of their citizenship because a Natural Born Citizen can’t be subject to the jurisdiction of a foreign country.
One is either a Natural Born Citizen at birth or they’re not, it’s not Humpty Dumpty one can’t write a letter and all of the sudden poof you’re back to being a Natural Born Citizen, that’s precisely why dual citizens can’t be Natural Born Citizens, and when one parent isn’t a US citizen it’s likely the child automatically receives that parents citizenship.
The founders would have never allowed person who owed allegiance to and subject to the jurisdiction of another country to the presidency and dual citizens are required to do just that!
“We’ve Gotta Get Into” the “natural born citizen” Controversy. I couldn’t agree more. However, don’t you think that “getting into it” should involve looking back at the history of it, no matter where that takes us or who was/is involved? I’ve stumbled upon one extremely interesting example of what I think may be the most egregious abuse of Article 2 presidential eligibility ever (emphasis on “may be,” and I am not forgetting that Obama, too, is in the running for “most egregious”). What I am referring to is the information contained in the below allegedly “FIVE YEAR LONG” investigation (or longer if counting the work of other writers) into one of our country’s most admired families, including two of the family members who became presidents. The constitutional eligibility for the presidency of the two is debatable and depends on an interpretation or definition of “natural born citizen” (a subject matter yet to be resolved or even seriously considered by the Roberts Supreme Court). I am not saying that the information contained in the below website is 100% true, or false. My opinion, though, is that it has the “ring of truth” to it. If it is true, then what should be the implication, if any, for Article 2, especially going forward.
https://www.proliberty.com/observer/20070405.htm