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Trump 'speaks in ways that I wouldn't' on North Korea, but US must show 'strength': Ted Cruz
ABC ^ | Sep 3, 2017, 10:50 AM ET | NICKI ZINK

Posted on 09/03/2017 3:36:40 PM PDT by conservative98

exas Sen. Ted Cruz said President Donald Trump "speaks in ways that I wouldn't" on North Korea but that it helps to "have a president who is strong."

The Republican senator told ABC News "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz that if North Korea's claim that it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb Sunday is true, it is "a serious escalation in their ability to commit mass acts of murder" that will spur calls for "further serious steps to prevent North Korea from using those weapons."

"North Korea right now, it’s the most dangerous place on the face of the planet," Cruz said on "This Week" Sunday. "Kim Jong Un, who’s the dictator there, he is radical, he is unpredictable, he is extreme, and he’s getting more and more dangerous weapons."

Raddatz asked Cruz about Trump's prior warning that the United States would respond with "fire and fury" to any further provocations from North Korea.

"Do you think [the president's threat] hurt or helped?" she asked.

"The president speaks in ways that I wouldn't speak, but that is his prerogative," the Texas senator said. "I do think it helps for North Korea and for China to understand that we have a president who is strong."

"I think the president is right that Kim Jong Un and other bullies only understand and respect strength, that weakness, that appeasement, encourages this action," Cruz said.

He added, "In term of what happens, listen, no rational person wants to see a military conflict with North Korea, with the nuclear weapons ... [In] almost any scenario, you're looking at tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of casualties in a matter of days.'

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


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To: conservative98

Ted would have invited them to come to Ottawa for a chat.


41 posted on 09/03/2017 4:19:14 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: conservative98

“The president speaks in ways that I wouldn’t speak, but that is his prerogative,” the Texas senator said. “I do think it helps for North Korea and for China to understand that we have a president who is strong.”

Ted, my boy, I have liked you but what you have said is why I am so grateful the sheeple had enough sense not to elect you President.

You can’t have this both ways. There is no successful middle ground on this.


42 posted on 09/03/2017 4:20:38 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: conservative98

What still amazes me is that Cruz had a CLEAN SHOT to the White House (other than the natural-born issue that could have bitten him), and all he had to do was show some degree of support for Trump, after Trump had defeated him.

But, I guess, that was asking too much for him. And so I will vote against him in the Primary and may well vote against him in the General Election too (assuming he even makes it that far).


43 posted on 09/03/2017 4:21:16 PM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: CincyRichieRich

We have plenty of Goldman Sachs people in the present administration.


44 posted on 09/03/2017 4:22:37 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: conservative98

So far none of the speech has done much good. North Korea is about to produce a hydrogen bomb on an ICBM. It’s time to quit talking and take the little fat boy out.


45 posted on 09/03/2017 4:22:50 PM PDT by kjam22 (America need forgiveness from God)
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To: conservative98

Reply to Cruz: pwokpokpokpokpokpokpwaaaack!pakpakpwockpocpokpokpokpokpokpokpokpokpokpwoooooooaaawwwwk!

Chicken.


46 posted on 09/03/2017 4:23:04 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: conservative98

Well, Ted, BULLETIN. Trump speaking like Trump speaks has got us where we haven’t been in decades - Russia and china have just come around - SIX PARTY TALKS toward DENUCLEARIZATION.

really, Ted, you should just keep quiet.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/09/03/xi-jinping-and-vladimir-putin-stick-to-the-goal-of-denuclearization-on-the-korean-peninsula/


47 posted on 09/03/2017 4:23:44 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ( Christian is as Christian does mt-h)
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To: richardtavor

I read it like you did. I don’t think some people read past that sentence.


48 posted on 09/03/2017 4:24:49 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: conservative98

Which is why he is POTUS and you are not, Thad.


49 posted on 09/03/2017 4:28:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ( "If fascism ever comes to America, it will be called liberalism." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: mass55th

“Hillary would have given Kim a “reset” button, but the word would have been misspelled, and would have actually translated to “nuke us.”

Scary, and thank God that we escaped that scene.


50 posted on 09/03/2017 4:31:43 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump for President, make 62+ million of us into Deplorable Racists/Nazis? NO! NADA!)
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To: ex91B10

Thanks!


51 posted on 09/03/2017 4:32:45 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump for President, make 62+ million of us into Deplorable Racists/Nazis? NO! NADA!)
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To: SkyDancer

Thank you.


52 posted on 09/03/2017 4:34:04 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: conservative98

the Ted hate is utterly baffling. It’s not like he killed the repeal of ACA. that would be the pompous little dude with the $6 haircut.


53 posted on 09/03/2017 4:35:50 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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>> “The president speaks in ways that I wouldn’t speak, but that is his prerogative,” the Texas senator said.

Pointless pretense for the narcissistic psychopaths.


54 posted on 09/03/2017 4:35:52 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: BenLurkin

Stereo President Trump would make Hill’s head do the bobble!


55 posted on 09/03/2017 4:36:11 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump for President, make 62+ million of us into Deplorable Racists/Nazis? NO! NADA!)
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To: Grampa Dave


That woman has some very serious medical issues. /Captain Obvious
56 posted on 09/03/2017 4:51:36 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: JohnBrowdie

A lot of the ill feelings toward Cruz stem back to the time he blamed Trump for inciting violence that was actually paid for by Soros. That move served as a window into Cruz ‘ MO: wait till the MSM/Dems are in blood-in-the-water circling-shark mode, and then pile on. It’s not something people just forget.


57 posted on 09/03/2017 4:52:28 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: conservative98

Nuclear War sooner rather than later.
I ain’t kissing no Communist Chinese general’s behind.

Always remember the Democrats nuclear armed our enemies; North Korea, China and Iran.

Remember also, Conservatives are dispersed in the USA.
Collectivist Democrats are a concentrated coastal target.
Survive a limited war and inherit a more Conservative country.


58 posted on 09/03/2017 4:58:22 PM PDT by TheNext (Obamacare is KILLING GRANDMA!)
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To: conservative98

Now that the simpletons here have expelled a lot of BS hot air attacking Cruz for an honest statement in no way attacking President Trump who’s scalp is next?


59 posted on 09/03/2017 5:01:22 PM PDT by heshtesh ((New Yorker for Cruz))
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To: Fantasywriter

“... the ill feelings toward Cruz stem back to the time he ...”
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He has given a lot of people a lot of different reasons.
For me, it was the Republican Convention.


60 posted on 09/03/2017 5:03:19 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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