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Donald Trump has said helium is considering "taking away" the US citizenship of histrion and comedian Rosie O'Donnell, contempt a Supreme Court ruling that expressly prohibits a authorities from doing so.
In a station connected Truth Social connected Saturday, the US president said: "Because of the information that Rosie O'Donnell is not successful the champion interests of our Great Country, I americium giving superior information to taking distant her Citizenship."
He besides labelled O'Donnell, who has moved to Ireland, arsenic a "threat to humanity" and said she should "remain successful the fantastic state of Ireland, if they privation her".
O'Donnell responded connected Instagram by posting a photograph of Mr Trump with Jeffrey Epstein.
"You are everything that is incorrect with America and I'm everything you hatred astir what's inactive close with it," she wrote successful the caption.
"I'm not yours to silence. I ne'er was."
O'Donnell moved to Ireland with her 12-year-old lad successful January aft Mr Trump had secured a 2nd term.
She has said she's successful the process of obtaining Irish citizenship based connected household lineage and that she would lone instrumentality to the US "when it is harmless for each citizens to person adjacent rights determination successful America".
O'Donnell and the US president person criticised each different publically for years, successful an often-bitter back-and-forth that predates Mr Trump's determination into politics.
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This is conscionable the latest menace by the president to revoke the citizenship of idiosyncratic helium has disagreed with, astir precocious his erstwhile state Elon Musk.
But the 2 situations are antithetic arsenic portion Musk was calved successful South Africa, O'Donnell was calved successful the US and has a law close to American citizenship.
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Amanda Frost, a instrumentality prof astatine the University of Virginia School of Law, said the Supreme Court ruled successful a 1967 lawsuit that the fourteen amendment of the constitution prevents the authorities from taking distant citizenship.
"The president has nary authorization to instrumentality distant the citizenship of a native-born US citizen," helium added.
"In short, we are federation founded connected the rule that the radical take the government; the authorities cannot take the people."
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