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Posted on 02/18/2016 7:09:17 AM PST by SoConPubbie
COLUMBIA — Feuding in the Republican presidential primary kicked up a notch Wednesday when Sen. Ted Cruz responded to a cease-and-desist request from Donald Trump’s camp asking him to stop airing a TV ad with a blunt call of “file the lawsuit.”
Cruz told reporters the letter accused his campaign of misleading the public in a commercial that includes older footage of Trump saying he is “very pro-choice.”
“The letter said this attack ad, as they called it, is not only completely disingenuous but replete with lies, false defamatory and destructive statements and downright fabrications,” Cruz said during a press conference in Seneca, according to a CNN video.
Cruz said the letter threatened to sue him if the campaign doesn’t remove the ad.
“I have to say, that, Mr. Trump, you have been threatening frivolous lawsuits for your entire adult life,” Cruz said. “Even in the annals of frivolous lawsuits, this takes the cake. So, Donald, I would encourage you if you want to file a lawsuit challenging this ad, claiming it as defamation, file the lawsuit.”
The spat is a continuation of the bad blood between the two front-runners in the South Carolina race. While campaigning Tuesday, Trump repeatedly questioned Cruz’s truthfulness.
“I’ve never seen a human being lie so much,” Trump said.
Trump said during a press conference earlier this week that he would sue to challenge Cruz’s citizenship if the senator did not pull his “false” television ads. Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and Cuban father. Cruz has maintained that Trump’s only response to challenges of his record is to accuse his opponents of lying.
Political scientist Karen Kedrowski said it is highly unusual for a candidate to respond to an attack ad by threatening to sue, especially since there are higher standards for proving libel or slander against a celebrity or public figure.
“I would say that suing doesn’t even enter the conversation,” she said. “The typical strategy is to answer the attack and make a counterattack. In prior campaigns you end up with mudslinging and it just spirals from there.”
But Kedrowski, dean of the college of arts and sciences at Winthrop University and co-director of the school’s John C. West Forum on Politics and Policy, said nothing about Trump’s campaign has followed political norms.
“Trump’s campaign seems to defy the rules that we would expect in political campaigns,” she said. “For him to call (the ad) libel or slander, that would be a really hard sell. And frankly I don’t think Trump is thinking about a lawsuit to win. He’s thinking about it as a distraction — a campaign tactic.”
The Cruz campaign issued a statement Wednesday saying the ad is “accurate and factual, whether Mr. Trump and his army of lawyers agree or not.”
Cruz plans “to air the ad with greater frequency,” according to the release.
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Amen! Trump loves to toot his own horn. Let’s see him put his money where his mouth is
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“Ted Cruz campaign will air ad ‘with greater frequency’ after cease-and-desist request from Donald Trump”
And I can’t believe people actually would vote for Trump. Trump is out for Trump and no one else. Where is his history for standing up and defending US citizens? Oh, yea—he has none.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDrCt60aMCE
Doubling down on dumb, stuck-on-stupid.
He’s cruzing to lose making lies and misrepresentations a central theme of his campaign. Just watch it happen. He’s choosing to do exactly what the American people hate about politicians. Amazing.
It was hilarious how quickly Levin glossed over the fact that this is a 17 year old video. I’m sure Cruzies won’t mind us hanging Cruz’s GOPe Bush admin opinions around his neck? Right?
I guess the Cruz campaign hasn’t taken voter fatigue into consideration.
Trump operates on a level way above what we are used to. People criticize and hate - because they don’t understand.
Don’t know if you saw this;
The Untruth About Donald Trump
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3385568/posts
This guy meticulously destroys all the lying memes about Trump.
LOL, I feel like Trump has successfully trolled yet another person.
If there’s one thing people love, it’s seeing the same negative political ad over and over and over again every time they watch TV.
So glad I cut the cord a couple years ago. In 2012, Mitt Romney’s unending avalanche of negative primary ads made it generally unbearable to watch TV, in addition to making me so cynical and jaded I sometimes wondered if I was even going to bother to vote. (I did, against Mitt.)
Boots ‘n Belly thinks he is doing something by fleecing the flock and running old footage on a very-well-known person like Trump. Trump established himself very early. He was on more talk shows, more media events than any other candidate from the start. This come-lately stuff by Cruz allows self puffery for him and his fans, but accomplishes little else.
Cruz has no idea what’s hitting him. He’s essentially giving Trump free air time for the general election. It’s not so bad that Trump is seen as an enemy of Cruz to a certain segment of voters. And Trump gets to call Cruz a liar as well. Trump is actually drawing attention to these ads and Cruz is playing right along.
Sheesh, the whole point of psy-ops is to throw the opponent off balance, and it’s working perfectly. Just days before a critical election he’s got Cruz babbling about depositions and showing Rove-like charts. Totally confused and off-message.
A small payback for what Cruz did to Dr. Carson in Iowa?
And besides, it’s working perfectly, a 20 point smack-down.
Now Ted....Let's talk about Reagan and the abortion bill he signed off on.....and later changed his mind.
And IIRC, Reagan was a Democrat for about 20 years.
“Boots ‘n Belly thinks he is doing something by fleecing the flock and running old footage on a very-well-known person like Trump.”
Speak thou not blasphemously of The Muffintop Of The Mountaintop, for He is The Reflected Visage of The Infinite, for surely thou shalt be stoned for disbelief, as surely as a foolish harlot Trumphole bearing BBQ pork sausages to Mecca!
Yep and none of it is helping educate the public on what Cruz will actually do FOR the people. Cruz’s camp clearly thinks bashing a private citizen candidate is going to win him votes.
Cruz is exhibiting the same behavior his followers claim is a turn-off when it comes to Trump.
Oh well, hypocrisy again. Interesting times.
Yep.
Gotta just love that.
Ball's in your court Mr Trump. Sue already. Trump the bloviator has talked long enough about suing. Ted Cruz has thrown down the gauntlet, so SUE MR TRUMP!
It is hardly a misrepresentation to show DONALD TRUMP using his own words (in a video now in the public domain) saying he defended late term abortions.
Trump is basically saying that his own viewpoint is a LIE. Of course, we know liberals can't stand the truth.
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