Maybe if you listened to the full comments by Cruz, and stopped believing what the MSenemydia puts out there, or the cutup youtube videos, only showing a portion of what he said, you’d understand, Cruz DID defend the 1st Amendment and DID NOT lay the blame on Trump, at all.
Cruz: “Is Donald Trump the one that’s responsible for the tone of his rallies, and Donald Trump alone?”
“Well, let’s be clear. Listen, the protesters have no right to engage in violence,” Cruz says. “They have no right to threaten violence. And these protesters, whether it’s Black Lives Matter or Bernie Sanders protesters, who are coming in just trying to shout down any speaker, that’s not free speech. The First Amendment gives you a right to speak, but it doesn’t give you a right to silence others. So the protesters are behaving abusively and wrong.
“But, at the end of the day, in any campaign, responsibility starts at the top. And it is not beneficial when you have a presidential candidate like Donald Trump telling his supporters, ‘Punch that guy in the face.’ We ought to have a president who brings us together, who doesn’t seek to divide us. We’ve seen a president dividing us for seven years. We don’t want to see that going forward.”
He correctly points out that Donald should do a better job setting the tone, because he’s right, people ARE listening to him and he IS someone who is leading and being looked up to. That is not the same as blaming him for what happened and it is not the same as siding with those stupid violent protesters.
The spin on this is just so beyond ridiculous.
Yep, I have never seen a crowd so eager to down-trod a true conservative before.
Thanks for your full Cruz quote...
Thanks for your voice of sanity.