Posted on 05/04/2016 12:43:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
He stood by yesterday’s comments not just in his interview with Stephanopoulos, as you’ll see below, but in the Today show interview that Ed blogged earlier. (Skip to 2:50 of the first clip here.) I don’t know if there’s anything more to say than what Kevin Williamson said to Republican voters last night about the race to come: “Remember, you asked for this.”
I’ll say something. First, Cruz did deny Trump’s insinuation about his dad and Oswald. He called it “nuts.” Second, Trump probably cares less about alienating Cruz and his fan base than about preserving the Enquirer’s reputation as a trash tabloid that nonetheless publishes newsworthy stories from time to time and therefore deserves the benefit of the doubt even on seemingly outlandish claims. No doubt he’s going to use the paper as a pipeline for hit pieces on Hillary. (Team Hillary, if they’re smart, will woo a rival checkout-counter tabloid and use that as a conduit for hit pieces on Trump in order to reach the same audience.)
He could have done that here, though, by praising the Enquirer but also saying that perhaps everyone had been too credulous about the old photo with Oswald and that he’d only mentioned it because he was wounded by what Rafael Cruz had said about him. He complimented Cruz last night in his victory speech as a smart, tough competitor; it’s weird and goofy to go on antagonizing him this morning as the presumptive nominee, knowing that Cruz is one of the few people in the party whose support might make some embittered conservatives reconsider their opposition to him. But we needn’t grasp for strategic explanations. Trump probably refused to apologize because he’s (a) too much of a narcissist to admit wrong, even when he stands to gain by doing so, and (b) a conspiracy theorist by disposition. He might actually believe the Enquirer story. Why would he walk it back?
And in fairness to him, his instinct that he won’t pay any political price for pushing stuff like this may well be right. I already confessed my grievous error this morning in ever believing righties were too smart and principled to buy what Trump is selling. The Lyle Lanley of the GOP knew better. Now he’s doubling down, betting that there’s a deep, hungry market for the Trump monorail among the general electorate too. You’d be a fool to bet against him at this point. Three clips for you then, one of his chat with Stephanopoulos, another from his chat with Hannity yesterday in which he insisted that the Enquirer wouldn’t have published the Oswald photo if they had reason to think they might be sued (which went unchallenged by Hannity, of course), and a third of Jake Tapper deluding himself into believing that Americans would prefer facts when they could have sensational lies instead.
i am POSITIVE you’d believe him!
RE: The question for Levin is “What do you do if it is daddy Cruz?
Well if this is so, the next question to ask is this — how well did he know Oswald and did he conspire to have JFK assassinated?
Just having a picture taken with someone proves nothing.
But the images are of a poor quality, black and white. and grainy. It would be very difficult, even for a photo expert, to extract facial attributes, Any conclusion about similarities is subjective.
I have heard arguments that say that the picture looks more similar than dissimilar,”
The next question then is -— “Compared to what?”
To do such a comparison, you’d need to compare the image with hundreds of others to determine if they are more similar or dissimilar.
Personally, I think that Rafael Cruz’s flared out ears don’t seem to match those of the unidentified man in the Oswald photo.
Heck The Miami Herald’s April 22 story noted a McClatchy report that quoted Gus Russo, an author and journalist who has written extensively about the JFK assassination and Oswald, as saying the Enquirer report is dubious.
Russo told McClatchy in an interview that Oswald, “who was living in New Orleans in 1963, was not connected to the Cuban community there and would not have had a Cuban supporter helping him,”.
BTW, this is the second Enquirer hit piece on Ted Cruz and his family.
Does anybody have any follow up news regarding Ted Cruz’s alleged 5 mistresses?
Two have been “identified” (note the quotes ), and one of them is ironically a spokeswoman for Trump’s campaign ( she denies the allegations ).
There were several posters who said — wait for more evidence to come out .... well, it’s been several months now... where’s the evidence and what are names of ALL these women?
RE: I also noticed that no one said it wasn’t.
Ted Cruz did, is he no one?
Some verry interesting stuff
I would too.
It seems like a reasonable question to me.
Link and text please. I’d like to see his specific denial.
au contraire
The light beginning to shine on Rafael Cruz may have made “ someone” uneasy about re opening the past, and hastened the exit of Ted
RE: Cruz quit because of his father.
Nope, Cruz quit because he lost Indiana. It had nothing to do with this Enquirer piece.
RE: The photographic evidence and newspaper clippings on Rafael were leaked April 22. Cruz has never denied that he’s the man photographed or that he was engaged in those activities.
Which Cruz? The father or the son?
If you are referring to the son, Cruz denied it, calling it Tabloid trash.
See here:
If you are referring to the father, well, why don’t people or the press ask him directly? One cannot publicly deny something when one is not asked publicly about it.
RE: Those connections are intertwined with his dad’s flight to Canada, his parents becoming Canadians and his birth as a NBC of Canada.
Cruz’s being NBC or not has to do with the Citizenship of his MOTHER at the time of his birth. We already know that he was born in Canada and his father was still Cuban then.
And yes, there were several suits filed in at least 7 states to disqualify Cruz because of this issue.
ALL the courts of all these states from New Hampshire to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to most recently, New Jersey deemed him eligible.
And oh yeah, I’m still waiting for the National Enquirer’s follow up to their allegations that Cruz had five mistresses.
So far, they have identified two women ( both publicly denying it ( one of them was ironically a spokeswoman for Trump ) ).
What are the names of the other women?
The old man is turning out to be a fraud in more ways than one
Let’s just say that lyin’ may be a genetically transmitted trait
What kind of retarded name is alla pudding? Or pundit? Or whatever?
Yes
If the Canadian neighbor is correct, Cruz isn’t eligible for the US Senate. Wow.
RE: Link and text please. I’d like to see his specific denial.
EXCERPT:
On Tuesday, Cruz let Trump have it, saying: “Donald’s source for this is The National Enquirer. The National Enquirer is tabloid trash.”
A Cruz campaign spokesperson told The Miami Herald the Enquirer’s story was “another garbage story in a tabloid full of garbage.”
More here from Ted Cruz’s Facebook page:
Actually, a little googling will go a long way....
Here’s a video:
RE: Rafael B. Cruz fails to deny that he is the man passing out the pro-communist literature with Oswald.
How do you know he failed to deny? Did anybody ask him publicly?
Is there a FOX NEWS or any media reporter who visited Rafael to ask him pointblank about it?
If not, how do you know that he did not deny it?
His son did though. See videos here:
Ted not only calls ‘garbage’ but ‘complete and utter lies’
Are you saying the son does not speak for the father?
RE: What kind of retarded name is alla pudding? Or pundit? Or whatever?
Oh, so now we’re into ridiculing an person’s alias.
What about dealing with the accusation itself?
Discovery ought to be fun, when Cruz sues.
What I really want the Enquirer to do (since many FReepers are wont to believe them ) is to follow up with inarguable evidence of :
1) Cruz’s mistresses
2) Cruz’s father’s support of Lee Oswald’s assassination plot.
Many Freepers tout the fact that they have been successful in providing evidence of the hanky pankies of Tiger Woods, John Edwards and Jesse Jackson among others.
Well, let’s have them with Ted Cruz...
Don’t stop now.
I don’t think Ted can speak for his dad in this matter, especially since Ted was not alive at the time of that photo.
Here is a better and more specific denial by Rafael Cruz-
In there he says that the point to a guy that doesn’t look like me, and that he never arrived in New Orleans until 1965, but the photo was from 1963.
But I don’t know, it does look like him, so I am not sure what to believe on this.
I will also go ahead and say that I have no idea if Oswald even shot Kennedy.
The only thing that I know for sure is that my government lies about every, single thing.
should I respond to every crazy allegation?
Only if you’re a presidential candidate and the subject of the ‘crazy allegation’ has to do with the alleged connection of your old man, to the person tied to death of a former President of the US.
We see that cRuz is no longer a candidate....so he now won’t have to respond. How about that?
Are you going to vote for Trump for President?
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