To be eligible for the presidency of the United States, Article II of the U.S. Constitution requires the person to be a citizen of the United States, at least 35-years-old, and reside in the U.S. for at least 14 years.
The only recent attempt to question a president’s qualifications was Donald Trump’s attack on President Barack Obama’s birthplace, stating in 2011, “I’m starting to think that he was not born here.” Trump claimed to have “an extremely credible source” who informed him that Obama’s birth certificate was “a fraud.” Trump called on Obama critics to “please hack Obama’s college records (destroyed?) and check ‘place of birth.’”
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