Hilarious.
Boo Hoo. The quote was valid, just mixed up author.
Trump STILL LYING about a fabricated quote to smear Ted Cruz HOURS after being caught on it!!
Eh. He deleted it after Coburn denied it.
More Trump dirty tricks. Not surprising.........
“The tweet with the quote has since been deleted, and further examination found it was wrongfully ascribed to Coburn.
“Trump had retweeted his social media director who in turn quoted Coburn saying of Cruz: “He is, without a doubt, one of the most dishonest people in D.C.” But according to the Examiner the quote appears to come from liberal website ForwardProgressives.com and their writer, Allen Clifton, a staunch opponent of Cruz.
Trump now has sitting senators arguing against his retweets.
Priceless.
I get Trump’s tweets. It wasn’t tweeted by Trump. No one has a picture of that tweet from Trump’s account.
It WAS tweeted by Dan Scavino and the reference tweet is still on his timeline.
Talk about lies.
Would toss in $100 if Coburn would sue him.... :)
Trump, Mr truthful hyperbole, has been a liar his whole life.
If Trump was not allowed to lie or brag, he’d have nothing left to say.
That’s ok, before long Cruz will like about Coburn and he can attack him again
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How shocking!
We already know how deeply, intrinsically dishonest Trump is.
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What Coburn did say:
Former Republican Sen. Tom Coburn said Thursday night that his former colleague Sen. Ted Cruz’s rhetoric and failure to deliver on promises is creating a “Cruz effect” that leads the public to have less confidence in Congress’ ability to do its job.
“I call it the ‘Cruz effect,’” Coburn, who retired from the Senate in 2014, told Sirius XM host Pete Dominick. “Look, when you tell people you can accomplish something that you can’t, for example, shutting down the government over the Affordable Care Act. When, in fact, you promise people in your speeches and your talk that we can do this, and by dinghy, we’re gonna get rid of the Affordable Care Act, and all we have to do is shut down the government.
“Well, that’s one thing to tell ‘em that,” the former Oklahoma senator said. “It’s a whole other thing to be able to accomplish that, and build a coalition that once you shut it, that it doesn’t get opened up ‘till you win.
“So what happens to that is, once you’ve told people that, and you’ve put your finger - ‘everybody that doesn’t believe exactly like I believe, you’re not a patriot, you don’t care about the country’ - what you do is you create greater disappointment in the hinterlands, because you gave them a false hope, knowing that you couldn’t accomplish it, but it was about yelling, and screaming, and waving the flag,” he continued. “And so what happens is, there becomes less confidence in the Congress and its ability to do its job.
“You know, I came out of the Senate with one of the most conservative ratings ever in the history of the Senate. You know, it was like 98.8% in terms of conservative,” Coburn concluded. “And yet, I compromised all the time to accomplish things that were good for the country.”
tRump is a LIAR
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re: Senator Tom Coburn on Ted CruzPosted by jturn17 online on 2/16/16 at 2:53 pm to Junky
This is a really dishonest comment.
Tom Coburn didn’t say what they’re quoting him to have said.
Trump is retweeting what his staffer tweeted from a website article, which said that Cruz is dishonest and in that article, it talks about comments that Coburn said from this article.
quote:
WASHINGTON-Former Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., on Thursday night accused Sen. Ted Cruz of stymieing Congress with divisive rhetoric and irresponsible promises.
Coburn, who retired in 2014, railed against Cruz and his allies’ insistence on tying conservative goals to must-pass government funding legislation, risking a shutdown. He called it ‘the Cruz effect’ in an interview with Sirius XM host Pete Dominick.
‘When you tell people you can accomplish something that you can’t, for example, shutting down the government over the Affordable Care Act,’ said Coburn, ‘you create greater disappointment in the hinterlands, because you gave them a false hope, knowing that you couldn’t accomplish it, but it was about yelling, and screaming, and waving the flag.’
This post was edited on 2/16 at 2:55 pm
He (Trump) reminds me of the Clintons-always accusing everyone else of what he is actually doing.
IMO- The very last thing this country needs is a Republican Clinton.
Such a person isn't going to repair any of the damage our nation has suffered, and would likely make the situation even worse.
We need someone who understands and can explain why our Constitution is what makes us great, and why we need to uphold its principles. That is the only way out of our troubles.
The best person, the one EVERYONE fears because he will uphold our Constitution- is Ted Cruz.
Rush Limbaugh says Cruz is the closest we've had to Ronald Reagan in our lifetime , and that if Conservative principles matter to you-Cruz is your only choice.
That FReepers on this supposedly conservative sight, are trashing Ted Cruz, and pushing long time Clinton buddy, Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Rahm Emmanuel supporting, and I guess we can add, 9-11 truther, Trump- is both bizarre and depressing.
I pray for my country. I pray that Ted Cruz will be our next president. Our nation needs him.
So Cruz is the only dirty tricks player in the game!
There goes Trump, lying again, as usual.