Had Cruz stopped with the condemnations everything would have been fine. But NOOO, he had to go on and blame Trump for creating an atmosphere of violence and he repeated it over the whole weekend. That is a TOTAL lie and is EXACTLY what the Democratmedia’s meme is.
Trump had NOTHING to do with these rioters and CRUZ KNOWS THIS. They were there because Trump has them terrified because he won’t give them the time of day and is the enemy of all they stand for.
They stage attacks on NO ONE ELSE, why is this?
Trump’s concern in Chicago about the safety of the audience led him to cancel and, believe me, people would have been killed. That was the same concern he stated about Texas, the safety of the crowd.
Now Cruz has joined the chorus against Lewandowski, yet another FLAT-OUT media LIE. This is despicable, yet consistent with his actions over the last month.
And to think he was once one of my heroes. I am ashamed.
I completely agree with this statement. Obvious (to me) Cruz was no longer talking about the canceled event when he said:
But in any campaign responsibility starts at the top. Any candidate who is responsible for the culture of the campaign. And when you have a campaign that disrespects the voters, when you have a campaign that affirmatively encourages violence, when you have a campaign that is facing allegations of physical violence against members of the press, you create an environment that only encourages this sort of nasty discourse.
Disrespects the voters? By not showing up at a rally? Cruz is obviously talking about something else, not a rally that didn't happen beccause of 'protester' 'violence'. At least that is how I read it. He does go on to say 'affirmatively encourages violence'. I thought it was obvious he was talking about the event a couple days earlier when someone at a rally hit a protester that was being escorted out, and at some point DT said something about 'knock the crap out of them'. 'Nasty discourse', to me, certainly doesn't describe 'rioters', so, again, it is obvious to me that he wasn't talking about 'protests' (the media word?, when it was more of a 'riot').
That outlines what I read/heard when that statement was reported. If someone else wants to think that Trump canceling and not even showing at a rally was what Cruz was talking about when he said 'campaign...encourages violence', I can't change their mind. I just think that when he said that, he was talking about, well, when Trump actually 'encouraged violence'. Makes perfect sense to me, and I think it would make sense to anyone that objectively looks at it. But that is hard to do these days, especially on this forum...