This has been reduced to an incredulous “How many Angels can dance on the head of a pin” argument.
Here is the bottom line, and it makes Trump look bad.
Ted Cruz is a NBC. All NBC’s become so at the moment of their birth. The moment of birth is the only time a NBC can become such. All other citizens who are not NBCs become a citizen through a self-instituted legal process called Naturalization, “to be made as if natural” (but not eligible to be POTUS.)
In order to have a foreign-born person be a NBC, his/her parents and the NBC may have to do or may have to have done certain things, such as maintaining certain residencies, for that child to be a NBC. In fact, regarding the post-birth requirements, NBC can be revoked for the person’s failure to accomplish them.
That said, there are no accusations that Cruz and his mother did not meet all the requirements of law for him to get and keep NBC status.
That defeats Mr. Trump’s accusation that Mr. Cruz might not be eligible to be POTUS.
So the questions remains, Did Trump make the accusation knowing it was false, did he do it after getting deficient legal counsel, or does/did he not know the legal difference between Natural Born and Native Born.
Each of those three possibilities are frightening.
Have a good weekend
> Here is the bottom line, and it makes Trump look bad.
Trump has no bearing on Cruz’s status.
Read Rogers v. Bellei, 401 U.S. 815 (1971) in tandem with Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967).