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Sen. Ted Cruz, Mayor Sylvester Turner react to Trump's reportedly explicit comment on Haiti, Africa
Click2Houston ^ | 4:19 PM, January 12, 2018 | ndy Cerota - Anchor/Reporter

Posted on 01/13/2018 12:26:22 PM PST by conservative98

“I wasn't in the meeting with the president so I don’t know what he did or didn't say. I can tell you my family, Heidi as a child lived in Africa, she lived in Kenya and Nigeria. Her parents were missionaries there. My brother-in-law has been a missionary with his wife and sons in Haiti for many years,” Cruz said.

President Trump denied using the vulgarity.

“The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country,” Trump tweeted Friday morning.

Cruz said the approach he tries to take in Washington is to stay out of the nastiness, attacks and insults and focus on substance and results instead.

Cruz and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner were both asked to respond to the president’s reported statement during a news conference about tax breaks and federal funding for Harvey flood victims.

“The comments were highly unfortunate and shameful. We are an inclusive society. Every person has value. Every community is important and we should be lifting up and not tearing down,” Turner said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cds; cruz; daca; elsalvador; haiti; heidicruz; houston; incometaxes; kenya; nevertrump; sylvesterturner; taxcutsandjobsact; taxreform; tcja; tedcruz; trump
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To: 2CAVTrooper

CDS still burns hot.
Some just can’t let go of a grudge.
Must suck.


21 posted on 01/13/2018 1:10:27 PM PST by oldvirginian (President Donald Trump, not a politician but a force of nature.)
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To: conservative98

Cruz’s response is a non-sequitur.


22 posted on 01/13/2018 1:16:34 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (God Bless Attorney General Jeff Sessions! Thank You!)
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To: Fantasywriter
help me out, I read the Cruz vote and didn't see any piling on or negative about trump, Turner on the other hand was a little shit but people here just can't get past their problems.

They say Trump lives rent free in some people's heads, if that's true than I can't help but believe there are a hell of a lot of people that must be paying Cruz to live in theirs!

23 posted on 01/13/2018 1:19:35 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Exactly he could have chose to support Trump or said nothing, but once again cannot do so. And instead implied that Trump is all about nastiness, attacks and insults and no substance.

How is this not taking the bait, Cruzers?


24 posted on 01/13/2018 1:20:05 PM PST by conservative98
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To: oldvirginian
CDS still burns hot.

Yes. Those people are pathetic. They're consumed with irrational hate, and it destroys their minds. It's something they have in common with demonicRATs.

25 posted on 01/13/2018 1:20:08 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: conservative98

Hey, Ted, explain why the cops found Heidi crying on the side of the highway in the middle of the night a few years ago.


26 posted on 01/13/2018 1:20:40 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: conservative98

“I am appalled that Trump might have almost said something and I condemn the possible language in the strongest terms”.


27 posted on 01/13/2018 1:21:03 PM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: AppyPappy

Precisely.
Cruz: I can’t (clearing throat) comment on the terrible things he said except to say my wife Heidi and her family are all 3rd world social justice warriors, you could have had me and blah blah
Classic Tead.


28 posted on 01/13/2018 1:27:38 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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To: conservative98

Lyn’s Ted, still can’t support PRESIDENT Trump?


29 posted on 01/13/2018 1:27:57 PM PST by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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To: Mastador1

‘I can tell you my family, Heidi as a child lived in Africa, she lived in Kenya and Nigeria. Her parents were missionaries there. My brother-in-law has been a missionary with his wife and sons in Haiti for many years,” Cruz said.

Cruz said the approach he tries to take in Washington is to stay out of the nastiness, attacks and insults and focus on substance and results instead.’

If that’s not a backhanded slap at Trump I wouldn’t know what to call it. First Cruz righteously associates himself with Haitian missionaries. Then he even more righteously contrasts the approach of nastiness and insults [of which Trump is currently accused] with *his* substance-and-results approach.

Iow, the Haitian missionary-connected Cruz would not be nasty and insulting, like that Philistine, Trump, but Cruz would simply accomplish good things. (Of which off hand I cannot list a single one.)

Hand me the barf bag—no, make it a double.


30 posted on 01/13/2018 1:30:22 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: DoughtyOne

Get in here. The Cruzlims are restless.


31 posted on 01/13/2018 1:30:54 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let’s pretend Trump said something we don’t like, then attack him for the imaginary thing we say he said!
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Sure seems like that, doesn’t it? Then make up a story that he slept with some porn actress a decade ago. If that doesn’t work, maybe they can try “Russia, Russia, Russia!”.


32 posted on 01/13/2018 1:31:09 PM PST by Pravious
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To: libh8er

But THIS was to have been his time; just as HRC thought it to be hers.

WE lucked out....both failed.
POTUS DJT = MAGA

Anyone less = SH**HOLE (Is there no limit!?)


33 posted on 01/13/2018 1:33:12 PM PST by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: conservative98
I can tell you my family, Heidi as a child lived in Africa, she lived in Kenya and Nigeria. Her parents were missionaries there. My brother-in-law has been a missionary with his wife and sons in Haiti for many years,” Cruz said.

So they already knew that those places were shit holes.

President Trump denied using the vulgarity.

The word shit is not a vulgarity.

34 posted on 01/13/2018 1:34:16 PM PST by upsdriver
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To: conservative98
The fools should have said "the comments if they occurred (the President has denied it)..." Continual hatred of our President.
35 posted on 01/13/2018 1:35:16 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: oldvirginian

CDS still burns hot.
Some just can’t let go of a grudge.
Must suck.

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That’s not fair. It’s not “Cruz Derangement Syndrome.” There’s a perfectly good reason for people to detest Ted Cruz. He lied about our President during the campaign, and behaved abominably during the convention. That said, I commend him for (seemingly) putting the race behind him. If Trump doesn’t hold a grudge, there’s no reason for his supporters to.


36 posted on 01/13/2018 1:36:05 PM PST by Pravious
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To: Mastador1

Btw, when has Trump been getting savaged by the Democrats/press and Cruz ever had a supportive word to say? Everything I quoted from Cruz supported Cruz. When Trump could use an ally Cruz piles on. Like that time Soros hired Antifa to disrupt a Trump rally...and Cruz sided with Soros/Antifa.

When Trump could use some help, count on Cruz to help Cruz.


37 posted on 01/13/2018 1:37:53 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: miss marmelstein

>>And yet people thought this guy (Ted) would make a great prez!<<

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Until boogergate.


38 posted on 01/13/2018 1:38:08 PM PST by Disestablishmentarian
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To: 353FMG

As a corollary, if you treat black crime statistics separately, the USA is as peaceful as Sweden.


39 posted on 01/13/2018 1:44:51 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

As peaceful as Sweden? So I guess, not so much.


40 posted on 01/13/2018 1:46:36 PM PST by crosdaddy
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