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[crscore]Ted Cruz[/crscore]’s national campaign spokesman Rick Tyler says Donald Trump would “look foolish” if he tries to sue Cruz over eligibility to be president.
Appearing on CNN’s “Wolf” on Tuesday with Wolf Blitzer, Tyler said Trump does not have standing to sue Cruz over Cruz’s eligibility to be president. (RELATED: Trump Vows To Sue Cruz If He Doesn’t Take Down Attack Ads)
Blitzer asked Tyler to react to Trump’s threat of filing a lawsuit against Cruz over his eligibility to be president and the spokesman said his candidate, who was born in Canada to an American mother, “is eligible… I think all of the scholar agree on that.” (RELATED: Trump: ‘I’d Do The Public A Big Favor’ By Suing Ted Cruz Over Eligibility To Be President [VIDEO])
“There’s only two ways to become a citizen of the United States, you’re either natural born or naturalized. And since he wasn’t naturalized and he has an American passport, then his government recognizes him as a natural born citizen,” Tyler claimed. “So he can file a lawsuit, he’ll just look foolish.”
Blitzer followed up, “Are you preparing for that lawsuit? In other words as the campaign hired lawyers to defend his assertion that he is technically, legally eligible under the constitution to run for president?”
“We’re prepared for anything,” Tyler said. “We have in-house council. So of course we are, but we don’t think it’ll have any standing.”
Advocating on behalf of Trump, Blizter said, “Trump says, as a challenger, he technically would have standing in court. He says you could go to court yourself and get a ruling from the judge that he’s eligible. You haven’t done that, right?”
“No, that’s not the way the law works,” Tyler asserted. “I could go, I could try to get a judge to have a ruling in case you hit my car that I would get compensated for you, that would tie up the courts forever, so courts don’t listen to cases like that. We don’t rule on future aggrieved parties. That’s just not how the system works. So no, he wouldn’t have standing.”