Here's what Trump pounced upon (I guess he latches onto anything that suits his agenda)
Trump shared the opinion piece published in Newsweek magazine by John Eastman, a law professor at Chapman University in California.
https://www.newsweek.com/some-questions ... on-1524483What is the law professor's argument?
Prof Eastman cites Article II of the US Constitution's wording that "no person except a natural born citizen… shall be eligible to the office of president".
He also points out that the 14th Amendment to the constitution says "all persons born… in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens".
Prof Eastman's argument, which he claims is also being made by other "commentators", hinges on the idea that Ms Harris may not have been subject to US jurisdiction if her parents were, for example, on student visas at the time of their daughter's birth in California.
"Her father was (and is) a Jamaican national, her mother was from India, and neither was a naturalized US citizen at the time of Harris' birth in 1964. That, according to these commentators, makes her not a 'natural born citizen' - and therefore ineligible for the office of the president and, hence, ineligible for the office of the vice president."
In 2010,
Prof Eastman ran to be the Republican candidate for California attorney general. He lost to Steve Cooley, who went on to be defeated by Ms HarrisSo obviously no academic conflict of interest

Professor Eastman should be reminded that any child born within the United States is a citizen by birthright. That's been the case since the end of the Civil War.