Trump Promotes False Birther Conspiracy About Nikki Haley

False and racist attempts to sow doubt about a political rival’s eligibility for the nation’s highest office are part of the former president’s playbook.

Nikki Haley’s father, Ajit Singh Randhawa, and her mother, Raj Kaur Randhawa, center, in Columbia, S.C., in 2011.Credit...Anne McQuary for The New York Times

By Jonathan Weisman

• Jan. 10, 2024Updated 1:18 p.m. ET

Former President Donald J. Trump has reached back into his brand of nativism to accuse a political opponent of color — this time, Nikki Haley — of not being a real American eligible for the presidency as he defends his own eligibility for the ballot under the Constitution.

On his social media site on Monday, Mr. Trump reposted a report by The Gateway Pundit, an website influential in the pro-Trump community that traffics in all manner of conspiracy theories, sowing doubt about Ms. Haley’s U.S. citizenship as polls show her cutting into Mr. Trump’s lead in New Hampshire. The report falsely claims that because Ms. Haley’s Indian immigrant parents were not yet citizens when she was born in South Carolina, she is disqualified “from presidential or vice-presidential candidacy under the 12th amendment.”

Ms. Haley was born in the United States in 1972. Anyone born in the United States is a citizen.

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