See any checks to GQ, Conde Nast or Wright Media for the Melania photo? Me neither.
Posted on 03/27/2016 2:17:14 PM PDT by Red Steel
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Sunday slammed rival Ted Cruz for the recent ad produced by an anti-Trump super-PAC featuring a photo of Trump's wife posing nude.
"From what I hear, he and his campaign went out and bought the cover shoot. Melania did a cover story for 'GQ,' a very strong modeling picture. No big deal," Trump said on ABC's "This Week."
"But it was a cover story for 'GQ,' a big magazine. And it was, you know, fine. And from what I hear, somebody bought the rights to it and he was the one or his campaign bought the rights and they gave it to the super PAC."
Trump said Cruz knew about the ad, adding he started the latest fight between the two. Last week, Trump threatened to "spill the beans" on Cruz's wife in response to the ad featuring Melania Trump. He then shared a tweet featuring a photo of his wife next to a photo of Cruz's wife, stating, "A picture is worth a thousands words."
Cruz has denied knowing anything about the ad, and called it deplorable on Sunday.
But Trump said the super PAC that produced the ad is "very friendly to Ted Cruz."
"He knew all about it, 100 percent," he said.
"There's no way in a million years that super PAC did that without his absolute knowledge."
“Vanities of vanities,” saith the Preacher, “vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Eccleslastes 1:2
One has to ask how all the principled conservatives were conned by Ted Scruz?
“There it is.”
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Yes, words from the mouth of the messiah...the font of ALL goodness, truth & wisdom. Yes let us praise Trump who epitomises Truth, Justice & the American Way.
big fanfare.... your new first Lady!
or... sighs.. depressed voice... you could vote for Ted Cruz
The photo of Trump’s wife was published in the magazine GQ years ago and has been in the public domain. For the Super PAC to use the photo, they had to pay for the rights to the photo.
Whatever Lyin’ Trump says you take with a planet of salt.
Ted is very desperate and will do anything to win. He knew the bomb was ready to drop from the Enquirer and needed to deflect attention. He already had Utah in the bag, so the photo was not issued to pick up more Mormon votes.
This charade of an primary election is a joke.The race is such a lopsided win for Trump that it’s ludicrous to suggest otherwise.
Team Cruz is only efficient in ferreting out wins in a few caucus states known for their oddball and malleable vote counting methods.
Cruz won:
Virgin Islands by 30 votes
Wyoming by 480 votes
Alaska by 600 votes
Maine by 2,500.
Here are the rounded total votes Cruz won in his 8/9 winning states.
Virgin Isl 200 people
Wyoming 620 people
Alaska 8,400
Maine 8,500
Kansas 35,000
Iowa 52,000
Utah 122,00
Okie 158,000
Wow, Ted won eight states totaling 385,000 votes.
If it wasn’t for his Texas win 1,239,393, he’d have nothing but a pile of beans in his hand.
This is clearly NOT an appealing candidate in so many ways.
He’s a candidate guaranteed to lose a national election.
Trump won 21 states and most by tens & hundreds of thousands of votes.
The millions at his rallies voted. Over six million voted for those wins in those states!
If it was a cover story for a publicly sold magazine then what’s the big deal anyway? Is it only a sleazy photo if used for political purposes? or is the picture itself sleazy? Is it Ok to pose nude for money but not Ok to use that same ad in a political campaign?
I would advise any of my daughters against posing nude because I think that it devalues them as human beings and turns them into sex objects. Is it right for Cruz to exploit it politically. No, but was it a smart thing to do in the first place?
Trump did not produce the side by side and caption. He re-tweeted. It was already out there.
Don’t let the media-hyped polls disturb you. Women will support Trump vs. Hillary.
See any checks to GQ, Conde Nast or Wright Media for the Melania photo? Me neither.
Cruz could have got by running the photo once with at the most a slap on the wrist from whoever owned the rights to the photo.
So why buy the rights?
My guess is because he planned to run it over and over.
What Trump had better do is find out if he has bought the rights to any others.
My guess is that during the time when these photo sessions are in session, there are lots of photos taken, some of which the model intends to be destroyed: bad pose, unintentional exposure, whatever.
Trump should try to find out of any exist and who has them.
No wonder Cruz is so unpopular among those who know him best.
And we were gullible enough to think that it was for his politics alone.
“WOW! Cruz is even more sleazy than I expected.”
You guys want it both ways.
Either sleazy Melania does a sleazy cover shoot and as opposition research sleazy Ted buys the rights.
OR
Saint Melania does a perfectly acceptable covershoot that was the opposite of sleazy and therefore Ted was suckered into buying a positive message for young girls?
What, do you tink that spread wasn’t going to be spread all over the world? If not by Ted then every government in the world who didn’t like The Donald?
Trump says so, therefore it must be true.
Maybe. Half the 50% of women are liberals who were not voting republican at all. The other half will have a choice... destroy the country of go with Trump. We'll only know as this develops.
“Yes, words from the mouth of the messiah...the font of ALL goodness, truth & wisdom. Yes let us praise Trump who epitomises Truth, Justice & the American Way.”
Your feeble attempts at satire are wearing thin. Tiring.
“and you don’t thin that is going to DESTROY us with women?”
Nope.
Thanks, SunCiv.
Do you really think it would appear there?
To find out whether he was involved, you would have to see every check written by every one of those groups as well as any other group to which he contributed.
Like looking for the proverbial needle.
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