Posted on 02/11/2016 2:59:45 PM PST by TBBT
(CNN)Ted Cruz will launch his most forceful attack yet against Donald Trump in a TV ad that accuses Trump of buying political influence "in a pattern of sleaze stretching back decades."
The 60-second spot, shared first with CNN, is part of a six-figure ad buy that will hit voters' TV screens across South Carolina starting as early as Thursday. It centers around Vera Coking, an elderly widow who faced the threat of losing her home in Atlantic City when the city tried to seize it through eminent domain â in order to allow Trump to build a casino parking lot.
"Vera Coking's home was all she had left but it stood in Donald Trump's way and the limousine parking lot he wanted for his casino," the narrator says. "To him, she was a nobody."
The ad flashes to an October 16 Washington Post article about Trump's ties to the mob in Atlantic City, and slams the real estate mogul for having "bankrolled politicians to steamroll the little guy -- a pattern of sleaze stretching back decades."
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That was eminent domain for public use. Noone has a problem with that. Trump wanted his cronies in government to use eminent domain to seize property and then sell it back to him so he could develop it. That is using eminent domain for private gain and is the height of crony capitalism.
“Trump has admitted buying politicians.”
Actually, he’s admitted no such thing... He’s admitted to donating to both parties.
I like the pearl clutching about TAKING the property, as if she weren’t offered millions of dollars for it.
I also like how the ad makes it seem like the house was actually successfully taken from the woman.
And also doesn’t mention that Ted Cruz also supports eminent domain.
Fact of the matter is, if eminent domain didn’t exist, one crotchety old jerk could produce a gaping hole in a border wall, or prevent the construction of a mall or some other economic development that would stimulate the economy of AN ENTIRE AREA. Someone should ask Ted Cruz if the Texas Rangers, or any other sports team in America, should be allowed to use eminent domain to build stadiums. I’d like to see him try to weasel out a “no” answer to that question in all of his lawyery jibjab and double-talk.
This ad just comes off to me like more disingenuous LYING from the Cruz camp, who seem to think that voters are too stupid to look up facts or think more than two-steps deep into any issue.
BAHHHH EMINENT DOMAIN BAD ALWAYS (If I pretend Ted Cruz isn’t also for it.)
LOL
Trump has admitted to giving campaign donations in order to get favors. He is as corrupt as the Godfather.
This has got the Trump supporters all out for blood. It’s kinda funny. Maybe he’ll send out a Tweet threatening to sue. LOL
It is certainly true that Trump is a sleaze.
I read that he offered her four times its worth plus a suite in the hotel for the rest of her life.
That ad is filled with LIES, is stupid, and sadly, the vast majority of posters, here, who SHOULD understand what ED is about.....DO NOT!
And what did the state do with the land?
Thanks for the info, didn’t know that.
Did you know Ted Cruz was born five minutes after Nixon died?
Trump dropped an ad that he andeveryone else knew was a complete lie by claiming Cruz is part of the establishment.
Like I said in the thread about a reason Trump claimed to no going positive was the hope that Cruz would not continuing to go negative. I suggestd that Cruz would go even more negative.
Trump’s sleazy character, sleazy business practices, and sleazy mob associations are fair targets and Cruz is right to educate the voters about the real Donald Trump.
Before all the Trumpites jump in, a number of them have not denied Trump’s mob connections and justified them as a reality of doing business in New York and New Jersey.
Any of you Trumpites think this is not part of the New Yorkvalues to which Cruz had referred? Of course, it was.
Trump couldn’t even beat the old lady in court.
Winner!
All this will do is cause an anti-Cruz Goldman-Sachs ad to be created
Cruz IS sleazy; VERY much so and a LIAR as well, who surrounds himself with VERY sleazy and questionable people.
No use posting on these kind of threads.
Name one thing in the ad that is not objectively true. With Trump, telling lies about him makes no sense when the truth is much worse for Trump.
“You do know that Trump is running attack ads against Cruz as we speak, right?”
Didn’t Hannity say that ad was pulled ?
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