Rep. Steve King Says He 'Knows Things' About Trump Endorsements

The Daily Caller ^ | January 31, 2016 | Kerry Picket

[Cincinatus' Wife]

AMES, Iowa - Rep. Steve King , an Iowa Republican and Ted Cruz supporter, says Donald Trump bought his endorsements. Trump recently received high profile endorsements from Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and Liberty University president Jerry Falwell, Jr.

King reiterated his statement about the endorsements to the Daily Caller on Saturday during a Cruz rally at the Gateway Hotel and stressed that he "knows things."

"He has, from a regular person's perspective, unlimited resources and he's willing to use whatever access he has in order to get the endorsements that he wants," King explained.

"Among those are the assets that we would naturally think of, including the attraction that might be for, oh who knows, a reality TV show, a job in the Trump machine," he said.

King added: "There's fame and fortune, and there's also the fear factor of retribution, which Donald Trump has not been shy about delivering against people. So all of that affects a person's judgment under those circumstances."

The conservative Iowa congressman would not get specific, but would only say, "I know things, but I'm saying what is appropriate, so that people will know enough, and I'm wanting to keep this on as high a plane as I can, but I don't think my conscience can allow me from not saying anything."

[The Duke]

Rep Steve King is one of the very few that I trust.

[Just mythoughts]

I watched a debate wherein Cruz flat out lied. When the moderator asked Cruz about his eligibility problems, Cruz stammered around saying Rubio, Jindl and if I remember correctly Santorum also had eligibility questions.... Trump nicely told Cruz he needed to get his questions cleared up. And America’s smartest HarvardLawSchool grad sniped, that Trump's mother could cause Trump eligibility questions..

As of this day I have no clue who will be on the Missouri ballot. My initial liked candidate was Governor Walker, but he ran out of dollars...

I took for granted Cruz was the smartest man in America, and actually did follow the ‘original intent’ of the Constitution... But not so, Cruz demands a personal exemption for himself to hold the office of president...

Now as far as Trump goes, a guy that is willing to fund his own campaign, is not obligated to his donors or pacs is a breath of fresh air. All these candidates who need to stay on tax payers dime sound like the use the same speech writers. Canned spam.

I cannot say who I will vote for because I have no clue who will be on the ballot come primary day. But I am paying attention to observe for myself how the candidates handle what gets thrown at them. Who owns them, and how they treat the people they need to win.

I know that Cruz knows that he is NOT eligible to hold the office of president... So please, Cruz and his campaign staff and his supporters, have no business throwing stones at anyone given the empty claims of being conservative... Cruz is not what the advertisers claim him to be... I do not particularly care for class envy, entitled mentality.

I want the hordes of obama’s illegals sent packing not going to the border passing out goodwill teddy bears..

Oh, glen beck just tears up all that well manufactured gravitas Cruz acquired by the mighty mouths on the radio...

[Cincinatus' Wife]

A lot of people see what you see, and agree.

[Sun]

You got it. In fact, just like Dems, Trump will probably continue to fund Planned Parenthood.

Just last summer Trump said before defunding Planned Parenthood, we should look at their “good aspects”

[Guenevere]

Indeed!

I truly hope (& expect he already has) Trump sees this blatant attack on the integrity of good people.....Dr. Jerry Falwell Jr......Sheriff Arpaio....Sarah Palin

King should be held accountable !

[mlizzy]

Rep Steve King is one of the very few that I trust.

A true chivalrous trustworthy man, I agree!

Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa stepped out of the House chamber where the State of the Union address was about to take place Tuesday, electing to pray in the members' chapel during the speech due to President Barack Obama's stance on abortion.

"When the president announced that he would have an empty seat up by the First Lady for those who are victims of gun violence, who no longer have a voice, and I thought of the millions and millions of unborn babies -- on his first day in office he issued an executive order that accelerated abortions worldwide," King told TheBlaze moments after stepping out of the House of Representatives chamber.

The lawmaker followed through on his promise from earlier in the day, adding that he took the "last chance" to leave the chamber just a few minutes before the president spoke.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I watched a debate wherein Cruz flat out lied. When the moderator asked Cruz about his eligibility problems, Cruz stammered around saying Rubio, Jindl and if I remember correctly Santorum also had eligibility questions.... Trump nicely told Cruz he needed to get his questions cleared up. ...

Well, if you get your information and talking points from the other candidates and the moderators, no wonder you have concerns.

Let me help you. (I know you don't know me from Adam, but here goes - toss this into your thinking.)

Cruz's mother = American.

And Cruz's father... [Let's unpack that a bit]

"....But look closer at the bolder portion. It never says that the father has to be a citizen of the United States at the time the child is born. All it says is that citizenship "shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States." It is indisputable that Rafael Cruz was in the United States for a period of time prior to both Ted's birth and his marriage to native born American citizen Eleanor Elizabeth Darragh Wilson in 1969. He fled Cuba in 1957 at the age of 18, arriving in Texas. There, he attended the University of Texas, graduating with a degree in mathematics in 1961. He even married his first wife there, Julia Ann Garza, in 1959. They later divorced, but not before he had two daughters with her. He was also granted political asylum in 1961 upon his graduation from UT."....

[FreedomStar3028]

Why would Palin endorse Trump for President, and not Ted Cruz. If Ted Cruz is such a wonderful man?

[Sun]

I like you, because I think you are sincere, unlike many other Trump supporters, but you are still soooo wrong.

You would not even be talking “birther,” if it weren’t for Trump. Trump himself said not all that long ago that Ted Cruz IS a Natural Born Citizen.

But then a funny thing happened - Cruz’s poll numbers increased, so Trump used dirty politicking which he KNEW was a lie.

“The bottom line in the case of Cruz, who was born in Canada in 1970, is that his father was an immigrant from Cuba and not a U.S. citizen at the time of young Cruz’s birth, but his mother was born and raised in the United States. The law in effect then, and now, made Ted Cruz a U.S. citizen at birth.”

more: http://nation.foxnews.com/sen-ted-cruz/2013/03/11/spokesman-senator-cruz-us-citizen-birth

[Liz]

Cruz deliberately lied about Trump using eminent domain to bulldoze a widow/s house. The house was not bulldozed or taken from the widow. There is no truth whatsoever to Cruz/s story.

Cruz is desperate ..... he contrived a scenario of a "poor put-upon woman victimized by Trump."

The widow/s conniving was so apparent. Trump offered her more and more money as he built his casino around her pigsty of a home. In the end the widow's scheme to blackmail Donald flopped.

Mrs Coking stubbornly refused the million dollar offer for her
pre-WW11 abode. Holding out allowed the casino to be built around
her property She figured she could extract even more money for the
postage-stamp size property.

Cruz should have mentioned that.

Trump/s offer was a whopping $1.9 mill----another Cruz stumble. She turned it down. Her son got her to come and live with him and they put it on the market for 5 mil. No buyers. It finally was auctioned off for back taxes and sold for half a million. That was the gross...not net.

The son's agenda was apparent, as well. The son thought he would make a killing since everything would eventually go to him. Tough luck, bud.

[AFreeBird]

OMG! Trump loaned money to Trump? That means Trump will be beholden to Trump.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Congressman, King might wanna look at the globalist who are supporting Teddy it’s quite interesting.

[Mark was here]

Who claimed Trump was conservative? No doubt he is not a true conservative. How about the Republicans in Congress who just voted to make the Government an equal partner with parents in raising children, instead of defunding the Department of Education? Honestly, how can you trust the Republicans in Congress? Impressed with Ryan trying to defend Planned Parenthood after he funded it? Trump is needed to shake things up.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I see he picked up a trick or two from Harry Reid's lie about Romney not paying taxes. When will King boast that he "lied and is proud of it" like Reid?

You need to insert Donald Trump for "he" when talking about mimicking Harry Reid.

Reid likes Trump's style, it reminds him of his "glory" days standing on the Senate floor saying that Romney didn't pay taxes for 10 years and needs to show proof otherwise.

Harry Reid: 'I'm Kind of Pulling for' Trump

And Chuck Schumer praises Trump, and Trump praises Chuck Schumer (and has donated to him and the Democratic Senate fund).

Birds of a feather, flock together.

Trump says no one in the Senate likes Cruz - that he is a "nasty man."

Trump boasts he can work with the Senate to make deals.

[Sontagged]

https://twitter.com/tponews/status/689125336605278208

The problem is Cruz knew his Canadian birth would be an issue for people. The question is why didn’t he settle it, why did he pretend he didn’t know he was a Canadian citizen until a few months ago?

Cruz is a GOPe shill for Jeb.

[Just mythoughts]

I think you are neglecting to do that research thing. A Florida liberal said he would sue Cruz over eligibility... Wash compost ask Trump about this... And I am sure Trump did a bit of investigating and nicely encouraged Cruz to end the questions, this was not the kind of thing to ignore... The liberals go to Constitutional lawyer, Larry Tribe, who personally and professionally does not care about original intent of the constitution called Cruz a hypocrite. Because Cruz's claim to fame was that he followed the ‘original intent’ of the Constitution.

Larry Tribe knows that under ‘original intent’ that Cruz is not eligible. And Larry Tribe also knows that Cruz knows that Cruz is not eligible. Now unless Cruz is a stealth liberal candidate, picking up where Obama leaves, the liberals are going to get ‘original intent’ religion, were Cruz to win the nomination. The liberals will clean his clock!!!

When was the last time you heard Cruz use his claim to fame phrase? I have yet to hear him campaign saying one word of returning to the ‘original intent, of the Constitution. He cannot!!!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The fact remains Trump praised the Kelo decision and eminent domain.

[peyton randolph]

When a privately held corporation borrows money, the loan is guaranteed by the owner of said corporation and that owner has their signature on it.

In many cases, that is not true. It depends upon the circumstances, including the amount of corporate assets that are available in case of default, the borrower's negotiating skills, and how bad the lender wants to do the deal.

Trump is not being honest in his statement he did not file bankruptcy personally when he owns the corporation. He is the corporation.

A privately held corporation is separate and distinct from its shareholders if formalities are observed. To insist otherwise shows a vast ignorance about business law.

And before I get flamed, note that I don't care whether Trump or Cruz is the nominee. I'll vote for either. Just hate to see FReepers lie to promote their candidates of choice.

[Liz]

Cruz implies Trump filed bankruptcy to get out from under debt.....and walked away scot free.

Now Harvard lawyer Cruz should have specified.... these were not "personal bankruptcies." These were debt-restructuring moves.

Trump did not file for bankruptcy and get to walk away scot-free. Restructuring debt means Trump still had to repay the money.....at even higher interest rates....b/c banks don't do these restructuring deals to be nice.

More importantly, there's a question as to whether bankruptcy was even Trump's idea---one ex-Trump exec's book recalled Trump's corporate team sometimes overruled him....to make him do things he did not want to do.

First and foremost, Trump's A/C bankruptcy benefitted banks. A Trump loan gave banks little or no risk; banks lent Trump so much money, they were literally in business w/ him. If he went down, they went down.

So restructuring the debt benefitted banks, and repayment commenced at even higher rates.

For a Harvard lawyer w/ two Ivy League degrees, Cruz is amazingly stupid about simple contract law.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I know Trump's moved on to other "issues" but remember this:

FR THREAD: No, Ted Cruz Did NOT Support Amnesty, Concedes Megyn Kelly After #GOPDebate