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Donald Trump's Citizenship

The fact-check is about whether Donald Trump was a U.S. citizen at birth, considering the Fourteenth Amendment and his mother's naturalization in 1942.

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What was Donald Trump’s citizenship status at birth under 1946 immigration law?

Donald J. Trump was born in Queens, New York, in 1946 and, under the wording of the Fourteenth Amendment and the prevailing nationality statutes that incorporated it, was a United States citizen at bi...