There were challenges when I was running for president, there were legal challenges that I was not a natural born citizen. I was, in fact, a natural born citizen, because what the Constitution requires is that you be natural born. I was a US citizen even though I was born in Canada. My mother was a US citizen at the time of my birth. And so I was a citizen by birth. The process of being born is what made me an american citizen. I was never naturalized. (21:44–21:50)
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Asserts that he was a US citizen by birth despite being born in Canada.
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