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Ted Cruz slams NBC for cutting ties with 'terrific' Donald Trump
Business Insider ^ | June 30th, 2015 | By Colin Campbell

Posted on 06/30/2015 8:50:00 AM PDT by Mariner

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) thinks NBC was wrong to cut off its business relationship with real-estate mogul and television personality Donald Trump.

"When it comes to Donald Trump, I like Donald Trump. I think he's terrific. I think he's brash. I think he speaks the truth," Cruz said Tuesday morning on Fox & Friends.

Trump, like Cruz, is campaigning for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016.

The day before, NBC said it was dumping Trump because of controversial comments the candidate made about Mexican immigrants. During his campaign announcement, Trump accused Mexico of sending its rapists and drug dealers to America.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruz2016; election2016; tedcruz; texas; trump2016; trumpscandal
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To: Mariner; odawg

No he’s not on my radar. I don’t consider him serious, frankly. Just because Cruz goes on a F&F show I quit watching years ago doesn’t give his thoughts about him any more credence to me. To me Cruz is just being polite and non-confrontational

Let’s all meet back here in 6 to 9 months and see what shakes out. My bet is that Trump has moved on.


21 posted on 06/30/2015 9:08:52 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Cboldt

I didn’t take your comment as derogatory. I have nothing against Cruz being insightful and considerate when discussing other same-party candidates. I’d likely have done the same. It doesn’t mean I bit the worm, either.


22 posted on 06/30/2015 9:11:12 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Mariner

[I think he’s brash.]

So the title could just as well have been: ...NBC for cutting ties with ‘brash’ Donald Trump but, I guess, ‘terrific’ sounds way more of an endorsment of Trump by Cruz, doesn’t it.


23 posted on 06/30/2015 9:12:55 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
"Controversy builds ratings"

Radio this morning was making fun of Trump claiming NBC Fired him. They had put a little recording with quotes from him. Repeated his claim "to know how jobs are created and destroyed" about 12 times.

I'm sitting there thinking, yeah keep making fun of him. You're driving home the point that he can create jobs.

24 posted on 06/30/2015 9:14:07 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Gaffer

But when you or I say it, how many people hear us?

And THAT’S the point.

There is no way I want Trump for president, but I welcome his megaphone supporting ideas that Cruz has been espousing.


25 posted on 06/30/2015 9:14:10 AM PDT by GilesB
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To: vpintheak

Amen and AMEN!


26 posted on 06/30/2015 9:15:01 AM PDT by GilesB
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To: Mariner
I have a feeling that NBC got a phone call.

Didn't Sarah Palin just have a run in with NBC.

27 posted on 06/30/2015 9:15:22 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (s)
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To: LS

I posted earlier today that I thought Trump was actually a help to Cruz. He and Cruz are the only two that have the guts to speak out and fight.


28 posted on 06/30/2015 9:16:49 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Canedawg

No, he wouldn’t. It’s one thing for school girl crushes to be exposed by more knowledgeable posters on a forum...it’s quite another for the candidates to talk about each other. This is the Newt Gingrich “any of the 8 of us on this stage would be far better” meme - which is the right meme.


29 posted on 06/30/2015 9:17:37 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: Mariner; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; MountainDad; aposiopetic; ...
    Ted Cruz Ping!

    If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.
    Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

    CRUZ or LOSE!

30 posted on 06/30/2015 9:17:54 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: GilesB

bingo


31 posted on 06/30/2015 9:18:06 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: Gaffer
-- I didn't take your comment as derogatory. --

Nor I, yours. Just your response (which I agree with 100%) was on a different subject (the press setting the agenda in general) from what I was trying to convey in the first place (Cruz didn't pick the topic of Trump). Not that it mattered in the least, and maybe you got my gist in the first place, I figured it was worth the time to clarify what I meant in the first place.

32 posted on 06/30/2015 9:18:09 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: LS
And BTW, Cruz is pure class. So far, he has supported many of these guys, while few have reciprocated.

Including "The Donald" when he attacked Cruz on the day of his announcement.
33 posted on 06/30/2015 9:18:57 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie; LS

“And BTW, Cruz is pure class. So far, he has supported many of these guys, while few have reciprocated.”

Hopefully, potential voters will see this, and vote accordingly.


34 posted on 06/30/2015 9:21:05 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Mariner

I like The Donald too but I’m afraid he may be cast in the Ross Perot role in the next presidential election containing a Clinton.


35 posted on 06/30/2015 9:21:52 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Gaffer

Your fifty posts for Cruz do not make up
for his one important TREASONOUS vote for ObamaCARE and
its SECRET empowerment for Obama-the-Undocumented.


36 posted on 06/30/2015 9:23:17 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: stephenjohnbanker
“And BTW, Cruz is pure class. So far, he has supported many of these guys, while few have reciprocated.”

Hopefully, potential voters will see this, and vote accordingly.


Juxtapose Cruz's complimentary and respectful and gentlemanly behavior here with Trump's crappy behavior on the day of his POTUS announcement where he attacked Cruz.
37 posted on 06/30/2015 9:23:38 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Diogenesis; Gaffer; Jim Robinson
Your fifty posts for Cruz do not make up for his one important TREASONOUS vote for ObamaCARE and its SECRET empowerment for Obama-the-Undocumented.

Hey Diogenesis, didn't Jim tell you to stop this type of behavior?
38 posted on 06/30/2015 9:25:12 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Mariner
"When it comes to Donald Trump, I like Donald Trump. I think he's terrific. I think he's brash. I think he speaks the truth," Cruz said

Maybe I'll just sit home on Election Day.

39 posted on 06/30/2015 9:26:37 AM PDT by gdani (No sacred cows)
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To: SoConPubbie

Trump is only about increasing the value of his name for future business projects. Trump is the modern day P.T. Barnum. Self promotion to increase the value of the “Trump” label has served Trump well his entire life.


40 posted on 06/30/2015 9:29:01 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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