While not conceding your argument, I ask how is this any different or any more disqualifying than Mr. Trump’s assertion that he supported democrats and liberal policy because it was good for his business. Mrs. Cruz was an employee and was obviously interested in her advancement just as Mr. Trump was. Between Mr. Trump and Mrs. Cruz, only one is a candidate for president.
To start with the easiest one first Ms Cruz is not an low-level employee who has the opinions that please her employer. She was a vice-president, who ran GS's Houston wealth-management unit, which handles portfolios for clients with an average net worth of $40 million.
The CFR website further specifies she served in the George W. Bush White House under Condoleezza Rice as the economic director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council. She previously served as the director of the Latin America office at the U.S. Treasury Department and as special assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, U.S. trade representative. Her opinions are intimately tied to her not her employers and she is on record as championing Governments being marginalized and merged.
The CFR report’s introduction went on to say that the task force “is pleased to provide specific advice on how the partnership can be pursued and realized,” noting the SPP “established ministerial-level working groups to address key security and economic issues facing North America and setting a short deadline for reporting back to their governments.” Critics of the plan have pointed out the European Union began as a free-trade agreement, much as the SPP was a further development of NAFTA.
In Europe, internationalist thinkers such as Jean Monnet helped develop the 1958 European Coal and Steel Agreement into a predecessor of the European Union, which operates today as a supranational regional government.
As to your second point: In the building industry there is graft, called by other names. If you look the amounts were mostly small, especially after 2011. This amount of money was peanuts and did not enable anyone. At the same time Donald Trump gave heavily to John McCain and many conservative politicians and organizations. Clearly he helped the conservatives more than the liberals if you want to evaluate it in those terms.
We went to two authoritative databases of campaign finance data to examine Ferguson’s numbers: OpenSecrets.org, to find federal donations, and FollowtheMoney.org, for state-level donations.
Trump has actually been relatively evenhanded in doling out cash to the two parties, but since 1989, he’s contributed over $350,000 more to Republicans running for federal and state offices, campaign finance records show. Data from the Federal Election Commission and state elections offices provided by the two websites show that Trump has given $584,850 to Democrats and $961,140 to the GOP over the last 26 years. (Politifact)