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To: lordsofthejungle
So Cruz’s staff makes a mistake relaying an incorrect media report and apologizes immediatly... Trump spreads lies of his own making and doubles down. Interesting display of character by each candidate.

Yeah. An interesting comparison would be to the false story Trump and his campaign spread about Tom Coburn last week. Trump's social media director (Scavino) took a story on a left-wing blog that called Cruz "without a doubt one of the most dishonest people in Washington," and falsely attributed that quote to Coburn. Trump then re-tweeted Scavino's quote, falsely reiterating that the quote had come from Coburn. Then, Trump talked about the story in at least one or two rallies, even after the quote had been debunked.

Did Trump apologize? Nope. Did he fire Scavino (as many seem to think Cruz should)? Nope. They just both quietly deleted the tweets, as if nothing happened.

Very telling. And ironic, since the fake Coburn quote was about Cruz being dishonest.

41 posted on 02/22/2016 6:41:31 AM PST by zedee
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To: zedee

If there weren’t double standards in politics there would be no standards at all. ;-)


47 posted on 02/22/2016 6:45:38 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: zedee

Yeah, double standards, indeed. Cruz does honorable stuff that hurts him, like apologize when he’s wrong, but he’s the supposed dirty liar.

Trump lies and continues the lie after it’s been debunked, and just insults everyone who calls him on it, and he’s the champion of all that’s good.

I don’t even think issues matter anymore to most people here.

Trump is the god of the middle finger,
The patron saint of F*ck You,

and that’s all that seems to matter anymore.


263 posted on 02/22/2016 9:13:07 AM PST by TitansAFC (1.) Cruz 2.) Trump)
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To: zedee
Did Trump apologize? Nope. Did he fire Scavino (as many seem to think Cruz should)? Nope. They just both quietly deleted the tweets, as if nothing happened.

Like I said...Brietbart is campaigning hard for Trump. Brietbart would never report something like this. Instead, it's Cruz bashing 24/7.
Watch for the Brietbart posts. If Cruz sneezes, Brietbart would report Cruz deliberately tried to infect innocent woman and children with what could have been a deadly virus.

282 posted on 02/22/2016 9:38:49 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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