Posted on 03/31/2016 2:57:00 PM PDT by drewh
Jimmy Kimmel’s show aired a “death threat” against Donald Trump made by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a Trump staffer charged on CNN today.
Jimmy Kimmel To Ted Cruz: “If he wasn’t Ted Cruz, he probably would be reported and investigated by the Secret Service,” Karen Giorno, identified by CNN as Trump campaign southeast regional director, told Jake Tapper.
“It should offend every American. This is a presidential race,” said the staffer of a GOP candidate who, two months earlier, boasted at a rally, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.”
“This is not a time to be joking about the front-runner and essentially running him over and causing him harm or death,” Giorno continued.
Last night, Cruz made his first visit to Kimmel’s ABC late-night show. He followed a guest who had showed viewers how to scare a pal on April Fools Day by taping a photo of Donald Trump to the back of the pal’s car, covering the back-up camera. Said Cruz, when Kimmel asked if he liked President Obama or Trump better, “If I were in my car and getting ready to reverse, and saw Donald in the backup camera, I’m not confident which pedal I’d push.”
This afternoon, Cruz communications director Alice Stewart told Tapper, “It was a joke, on a late-night comedy show,” adding it was “no surprise the Trump team is going to focus on this.”
CNN contributor and GOP strategist Ana Navarro counseled Giorno that the country will not get through this election cycle that Trump has done so much to plunge into a “cuckoo crazy” phase without the help of humor and liquor, “so lighten up.”
“This is not the kind of humor we want,” responded Giorno. “My candidate has Secret Service protection for a reason. There are people out there that are out to physically harm him, OK? So what we’re talking about, another presidential candidate talking about backing over him with a car – that’s not funny.”
Here’s Cruz’s “threat”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmI6JQz2M10
Stabby and Crashy.
oh brother, talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel
I am tired of the histrionics coming from the Trump camp. They seem to be stuck in 7th grade.
Ted Cruz jokes about running over Donald Trump on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/31/politics/ted-cruz-jimmy-kimmel-donald-trump-car/
Trump Spox Says Cruz Issued A ‘Death Threat’ On ‘Jimmy Kimmel’ [VIDEO]
http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/31/trump-spox-says-cruz-issued-a-death-threat-on-jimmy-kimmel-video/
I don’t understand how anyone could retain respect for either of these gerbils at this point.
what is with the Cruz campaign, first it was Glenn Beck wanting to stab Trump, and now Cruz wanting to run over him? It sounds to me like Cruz is creating a culture of violent threats in his campaign.
if any of us say this about any of them we would be in jail...
why the double standard? Okay for Cruz, but not Trump
Can I fax this “aide” a crying towel?
If Trump said it instead of the Canadian, we’d be looking at headlines all day “TRUMP THREATENS MURDER”
Personal baggage is starting to affect Cruz. Not a practiced politico-cheater like the Clintons.
NYC whiners have thin skins...
Maybe they will sue.
Get Mattie’s Lawyer from True Grit.
So backing a vehicle over Trump, which would likely kill him, is your and Cruz’ idea of humor?
Watch the video. Team Trump is just trying to manufacture controversy. It was a silly joke about if he say Trump in his rear-view mirror, which peddle would he push. Something like that. It was NO death threat. Trump is a mentally a child.
Please tell me that some official on the Trump campaign staff has better sense than this. It was an obvious joke. If you are going to make hay out of an obvious joke, it makes you seem desperate.
That business of being afraid of a girl with a pen also seemed very silly to me. It is likewise silly that she is claiming "assault". Everybody should have just shut up about that and let it go.
Here I thought Trump was a tough guy.
They should question Lying Cruz, his intent. This is serious matter.
Oh, please....come on. I’m a Trump supporter, but that staffer is an idiot. I’m tired of the candidates poking each other about nothing. There are big issues to talk about.
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