Dallas Morning News
Posted on 02/17/2016 4:31:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Two things about this. One: Cruz is entirely right that Trump's lawsuit would be frivolous. Watch the allegedly "defamatory" ad below. It's Politics 101: My opponent may say X now but he said Y before, so how can you possibly trust that X is his true opinion? Trump seems to think that using old footage of him stating his own position on abortion constitutes defamation unless the viewer is also told that he's since changed his mind. It would be like Rubio suing over an ad that showed him touting comprehensive immigration reform in 2013 because he no longer believes that's feasible (for the time being). Good luck with that in court. But then, the point of threatening a suit isn't to win or even to try to intimidate Cruz, who knows this is garbage, but simply to get the media to write it up. Trump has done major damage to Cruz's favorable rating over the last six weeks by accusing him of being a liar and a cheat. A voter who sees a headline that Trump may sue over defamation will have no idea whether that claim has merit or not; all he'll know is that Cruz's supposed dishonesty has now reached the point where legal action may be warranted. Who'd want to vote for a guy like that? This is all about impugning Cruz's character, not "defamation."
Two: That said, I don't know what the point of this presser was. It'd be one thing if Cruz had walked out there and given a short but pointed statement to Trump: You're full of it, we both know it, and if you sue I'll tear you apart in deposition....
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Where?
I didn’t know she was divorced...is it unusual that she would use that name instead of her maiden on a BC?
I wouldn’t think so myself.
The new thing on FR by Cruz supporters seems to be to criticize how posters form sentences as a means to distract from issues regarding Cruz. As long as posters feel they have to defend how they said something, the truth of the content is deflected.
( “Sister Souljah moment”: a calculated denunciation of an extremist position or special interest group)
Trump’s reverse-Sister Souljah bit. While Clinton used slapping at Souljah to appear moderate...Trump used Univision as fuel for his new caricatured right-wing persona. The man is a Trojan Horse...
dt being ‘a plant’ is exactly what I have been wondering all day after seeing his donation list and seeing who he goes after. The whole ‘who does he support’ and ‘who does he go after’ really is bothering me about the trumpster. He can say a lot of neat things ‘sometimes’. But he appears to be most ‘at war’ with someone he should be on the same team with. He is trying very hard to destroy, not bring together, anti-establishment folks. It is as if his ‘enemies’ are those who are anti-establishment or challenges him on his own words he used in the past (with video of him saying it).
I would vote for Cruz, but I question the judgment of any attorney who would represent himself. That said, Cruz is to smart to represent himself. Why he would suggest otherwise seems to be hyperbolic.
She lied and .she’s refusing phone calls from Dallas Morning News. Crib death...?
I think I was pretty clear in my original post to him, ol Marv is just making things up because he has no argument.
He's either a DU troll or retarded...oops, that was redundant, wasn't it?
More proof that only terrorists and psychos are their own lawyer.
Dallas Morning News
Super lawyer who didn’t know he was a Canadian. You’re fired.
I have no clue what you're getting at, I am not familiar with any stories to which you are referencing.
I do not believe he is NBC for the purpose of the Presidency, but that went out the window with Obama.
I'll vote for him and compromise my principles if I have to (if he is the nominee), the stakes are too high.
Sad to say, this is where we are.
Wilson said the child wasn't his.
Do you have a link with some background so I can get clued in?
I’m still not sure what you’re trying to get at...tia
What does that ledger represent?
Arguing cases before the Supreme Court is impressive but is a largely academic affair. Cruz only spent a year at a law firm before entering government service. And his only other private work was as the head of an appellate practice group at a very large firm for five years. His public service has been either non-legal or focused on appeals. So I have to raise an eyebrow at bit at his threat to personally take Trump’s deposition. I mean how ma many nuts and bolts street level lawsuits has he personally handled? How many depositions has he taken?
Yup!
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