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Posted on 10/09/2016 5:05:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
All eyes are on the Republican party leadership and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign for responses to the ongoing Donald Trump tape scandal. But one GOP party member is pointing the finger at the media — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
Cruz asked in a tweet Sunday why NBC took so long to release the now infamous audio of GOP presidential nominee Trump's lewd behind-the-scenes remarks to "Access Hollywood's" then-host, Billy Bush. The Texas senator intimated that the network intentionally withheld the recording:
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The timing of the leak — two days before the second of three nationally televised presidential debates — looks bad for the Trump campaign, but there are flaws in any NBC conspiracy theory.
NBC may no longer have "The Apprentice" tapes.
Cruz makes a good point that releasing the "Access Hollywood" audio earlier may have altered the course of the election.
But his second comment about "The Apprentice" tapes may be off base. An unnamed NBC source told Politico that "Apprentice" tapes are not owned by NBC but rather by the show's producer, Mark Burnett, who is a friend and supporter of Trump.
"We don't own the footage. We're pursuing it along with every other news organization reporting on this story," NBC told Politico on Saturday.
Will "Apprentice" footage be leaked just like the "Access Hollywood" clip?
Not likely, according to Chris Nee, a producer who did not work on "The Apprentice" but who has signed contracts for projects with Burnett in the past.
Nee tweeted Sunday that the "leak fee" on Burnett contracts is $5 million.
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Someone who signed such a contract would incur that hefty penalty if he or she shared unaired footage from "The Apprentice," suggesting that we're unlikely to see anything unless Burnett himself wants to release it....
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Burnett should BleachBit any tapes he has. What could Hillary say about that?
Just heard on C=Span that Billy Bush has been suspended from Today show
Well duh. Of course it was a media hatchet job.
Cruz is just upset that he didn’t have the tape during the primary.
“Cruz makes a good point that releasing the “Access Hollywood” audio earlier may have altered the course of the election. “
Or it may not have. Cruz and Mark Levin need to grow a pair. Women talk worse and Mark Levin sends lewd messages to Hannity.
F Cruz
Cruz is delusional. This fool would have been nuked so fast. Only an outsider non politician with brand name like Trump could withstand Clintons war room.
Exactly
F Cruz
Whaaaaa, Cruz thinks he’d be the nominee if they’d released the nothing tapes earlier. We now know why he popped his head up last week. He knew what was coming. Sleazy snake.
Cruz is a different kind of stupid. Politics is war by other means.
There are so many cringe worthy videos of Cruz. Hillary and the media would have bombarded Cruz with them. There’s no way he’d be even close to Hillary. There’s something wrong with Cruz.
Cruz should thank his lucky stars that it’s not him against the Clinton machine. Trump is the only candidate who has been able, and will continue, to withstand the heat that’s been brought against the RNC candidate in this race.
Cruz is upset because he still thinks he would have won the nomination. Not likely. Isn’t it a shame that the news organizations can’t go after anything against Hillary or how uninterested they were to find obama’s school records or birth certificate? They make me sick.
I live next door to a high school and I have heard worse from girls mouths just walking by my house.
M$M could easily come up with ten times that amount if Burnett demanded it in return for the tapes.
Thank you, I posted earlier there had to be something nasty Anderson has said. This is even worse. Anderson probably enjoyed getting spanked by the men but maybe not so much the act with Madonna. Self-righteous hypocrite, indeed.
Mr, Cruz, you have lost my vote. It’s only one vote, unless you consider those I have direct contact with, and the ability to sway votes with, including your prescious religious right.
That’s right Mr. Cruz, I have the power of no less that 12 votes, maybe the one you need to win......at my command.
I am the politico of my group, the one my peeps ask advice from......I have advised them that you are a traitor.
Might be more than 12 actually....but I’ll take it, I will bring you down.
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