Posted on 02/18/2016 1:53:12 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reacted strongly to Pope Francis' criticism of his immigration policies as "not Christian" this afternoon, calling Francis' questioning of his faith "disgraceful."
But today's battle comes after Trump himself has spent days repeatedly questioning the faith of his biggest rival, Ted Cruz.
"I've never seen anybody that lied as much as Ted Cruz," Trump said at a press conference Monday. "And he goes around saying he's a Christian. I don't know, you're going to have to really study that."
At a Tuesday rally in North Augusta, South Carolina, Trump said Cruz "holds up the Bible and then he lies about so many things."
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All this followed a tweet from last Friday wondering about Cruz's evangelicalism:
How can Ted Cruz be an Evangelical Christian when he lies so much and is so dishonest?- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 12, 2016
Pope Francis criticized the Republican candidate in a statement Thursday morning at the culmination of his trip to Mexico. Informed of some of the rhetoric Trump has used regarding immigrants and his proposal to build a wall across the U.S.'s southern border, Francis said Trump's actions were "not Christian."
"A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian," Francis said. "This is not in the gospel."
Trump responded moments after the pope's comments were released. "No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith," Trump said in a written statement.
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Nope.
Yes judgment belongs with God. I don’t condone name calling or lying, but can recognize both. Neither is a good trait, each of us has to decide which causes the most harm.
“Instead of all those links that I’m certainly not going to, why don’t you post in your own words all the evil stuff you think Ted Cruz has done.”
Ted’s lies, misrepresentations, and conduct in IA is dirty status quo politics. Is that what you expected “the only principled candidate” in the race to be doing?? I sure didn’t. I bought Ted’s book “A Time For Truth”. What a farce he’s turned out to be. I’ll vote for him as the nominee but it will be a default “cream of the crap vote for me”.
This has been put to bed, covered up, a bedtime story read and a lullaby sung.
You are dragging it out to try to discredit Ted. CNN put the news out and some of Cruz’s team repeated it to SOME people.
Carson lost no votes that he can prove. Ted apologized anyway because Ted Cruz is actually a decent guy.
Carson accepted that apology privately because Carson is a coward. He then proceeded to whine for sympathy.
By the way, Carson is not really running in the normal sense. what Carson is doing is amassing a small fortune by continuing to milk contributions from his trusting donors.
I get an email from the dude every day, sometimes two, whining for donations. I think he knows he’s getting out as soon as Trump says okay and I think it’s cynical and greedy to keep taking money from people who believe he will continue in the race.
It’s really lame to blame the victim.
He was one when I created my account. Oh how time flies.
We all know who he was referring to. We might pretend we don’t, but we do.
Yes, of course he was referring to the Pope - he said so explicitly. But the point he made was broader than that - he said that a leader should not question another man's faith.
And he's right. The Pope should not have questioned Trump's faith. And, Trump should not have questioned Cruz's faith.
That is fair enough. The man is not perfect. No man is.
Thou shalt not tell the truth about Donald Trump.
This has been put to bed, covered up, a bedtime story read and a lullaby sung.
You are dragging it out to try to discredit Ted. CNN put the news out and some of Cruz’s team repeated it to SOME people.
Cruz smeared both Carson and Trump at the actual Iowa Caucuses. I’m shocked a FReeper is so comfortable with this type of win at all costs beltway sleaziness. There’s nothing principled or conservative about it. As a many year supporter of Ted Cruz it is very disappointing to me to see that Ted Cruz the man not match the Senator Principled Conservative myth.
Good one!
Hilarious!!!!
Unless you've actually gone to his web site and read his position papers, you're just another of the many cranks blowing smoke around here. yammer yammer yammer i hate trump yammer yammer I love Ted blah blah blub blub blub.... sounds like the self-righteous scripture cherry-pickers who "find" support for gay marriage and illegal immigration in the Bible and tell everyone what Jesus would do blablahblahblahblah, except they have never read the Bible and have no intention of following it if they did....
Either Cruz lied, or he didn't. If he lied, and I certainly read a couple of whoppers, then you don't get to hate on the guy he lied about who then called Cruz a liar.
Suppose he had. Then the Cruzbots would say, "That's not true! You haven't posted any links, because you can't."
It’s beyond pathetic.
I'm not sure where the rest of your post came from about scripture supporting same-sex marriage and immigration. Is there someone here claiming that?
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