TRUMP PRESSES FALSE CLAIM OF HARRIS’S BIRTH

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump, in an echo of his false birtherism claims against former president Barack Obama, said Thursday that questions about the eligibility of Sen. Kamala Harris, D-calif., to run for vice-president were “very serious.”

Harris was born in Oakland, Calif., and is, by the laws of the Constitution, a U.S. citizen.

The false birther conspiracies about Harris focus on the immigration status of her parents, immigrants from India and Jamaica, who weren’t U.S. citizens when she was born.

Asked whether Harris was indeed eligible, Trump said he did not know.

“So I just heard that, I heard it today that she doesn’t meet the requirements,” Trump said during a White House press briefing.

Trump’s remarks were a reprise of his past false allegation that Obama was born in Kenya rather than in Hawaii and thus ineligible to serve.

Trump largely built his 2016 presidential campaign out of the political prominence he gained from questioning Obama’s legitimacy for five years.