Posted on 03/23/2016 5:57:36 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Ted Cruz attacked Donald Trump’s character for threatening his wife on Tuesday and blamed his opponent's attack on “a very bad night” in Utah.
“If Donald wants to get in a character fight he's better off sticking with me, because Heidi is way out of his league,” Cruz said on CNN’s “New Day,” responding to a late-night tweet from Trump warning, "Be careful, Lyin' Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!”
The attack reveals a lot about Trump's character, Cruz said. "That should be beneath Donald," he said. "The reason he's doing that is because he had a very bad night last night. He got clobbered in Utah."
Trump’s tweet — which began with “Lyin' Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad" — is an apparent reference to an online ad by anti-Trump super PAC Make America Awesome, which used a photo of Trump’s wife Melania posing nude in British GQ in 2000 in an attempt to sway conservative Mormon voters.
Cruz responded via Twitter shortly after: "Pic of your wife not from us. Donald, if you try to attack Heidi, you're more of a coward than I thought. #classless.”
On CNN, host Chris Cuomo asked the Texas senator if engaging with Trump was a good idea.
"The tweet he was unhappy about was not even a super PAC supporting me. It is an independent group. I don’t know them,” Cruz said. "When Donald gets scared, when he gets angry, when he gets threatened ... So last night Donald threatened my wife, he went directly after my wife."
Cruz also ratcheted up his pressure on John Kasich, who fared poorly in Tuesday's contests, to get out of the race, repeatedly calling the Ohio governor a “spoiler.”
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The self-righteous puritanicals on the right and the abortion hags on the left. Shouldn’t hags on both sides support Melania Trump being able to do with her body what she wants to do? The puritans espouse liberty and freedom and hags on left say a woman’s body is her god. But both condemn Melania. We are surrounded by hypocrites on all sides.
I apologize for ever supporting Cruz. He had me fooled as a conservative. He is nothing more than a closeted rino. Makes me wonder what else is Cruz hiding from me. I sent that ass clown money and I want it back. I throw myself on the mercy of the court. I am today turning in my republican card. At least with democrats you know you get screwed but republicans do it to you in the dark.
Karl Rove is a spectacular evil mastermind to pull this one off. He has to have been planning it since 2008.
Am disgusted with my country and its government.
“Cruz is imploding”
Yeah right.
That’s why he crushed Trump in Utah and now has the GOPe coming to him...not the other way around. Just like it happened with Reagan in 1980.
Did they let Trump disavow David Duke and the KKK via Twitter or did everyone demand public groveling? Over and over and over
Includung the sanctimonious newly minted Bushbot himself
Just sayin if a distasteful actor commits a distasteful act in a candidate’s name, let’s play on the same field - agreed ?
When I was young there was this wimpy kid in the neighborhood named Darius. Often Darius would throw rocks at other kids from his front yard and when we would make our way towards him he would run to his front door, stick his tongue out at us, and then run into his house at the last minute.
Eventually Darius got his little ass whipped, REAL BAD!
” Liz Mair is NOT a novice, she knows FULL-WELL that you don’t launch into an attack of that magnitude without APPROVAL.”
Oh really? Read the words of Mair herself.. and start eating yours.
http://theresurgent.com/trump-threatens-heidi-cruz-over-tiny-liz-mair-pac-ad/
Okay spill. What police record?
Cruz is your typical holier than thou Bible thumper who uses his religion as a crutch. (See Iowa, Utah). Pulls it out his “faith” when he needs it, then hides it.
The Cruz campaign had nothing to do with the crap with Trump’s wife.
Zip. Zero. Nada.
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Maybe so.
But did Cruz or his campaign call for a stop to such practices? Or are
they good to go with some entity doing such things that supports him?
Yes, but we know that Trump shoots from the hip and seeks attention.
It doesn’t matter. Disavowing doesn’t mean jack squat. The intent is there. Disvow all day. But the intent to do damage over nothing is still done.
“He does it underhanded thru his pacs”
That wasn’t his PAC. It was an Independent anti-Trump PAC not associated to any campaign.
Sorry Ted. The only thing I believe about you is that you are a lawyer. A government lawyer your whole life. And Mrs. Cruz was employed by Goldman after he won his Senate seat. That’s enough for me. True or false?
“And today Ted disavowed that ad.... Right?”
Yes he did.
“t isn’t entirely clear what beans about Heidi Cruz that Trump intended to spill, but Cruz wasn’t taking it lyin’ down. Cruz said the photo didn’t come from his campaign and added, “if you try to attack Heidi, you’re more of a coward than I thought.” He threw in the hashtag #classless for good measure.”
And then there is this bit of new that will sadden and depress you and the rest of the Trumpbots:
“However, he may have gotten his wires crossed. The ads Mr Trump has taken issue with were not being included in Mr Cruz’s campaign.
The ad that featured Melania Trump was reportedly part of a campaign from the group “Make America Awesome”. The group is targeting Mormon voters in this week’s Utah primary.
The picture was an accurate one of Mrs Trump, albeit one taken 15 years ago.”
He did not disavow it and you can’t find a link to one statement that proves it.
The comment from Cruz: "Pic of your wife not from us. Donald, if you try to attack Heidi, you're more of a coward than I thought."
Cruz disavowed it. Read it again..
Nonsense. It’s a PAC, not a Cruz controlled group.
Senator is a very honest man. And everyone knows it. Some have decided to lie about him. A very liberal trait.
Jethro Bush just endorsed Ted.
That tells me everything I need to know about HIS character.
What is really interesting, is watching folks HERE defend this endorsement. cRuz is no more an outsider than Midge and Cornball.
Birds of feather.
You are telling me that TC told his “people” that wives are not to me messed with, than out of the blue this PAC ad appears?
If your assumptions are true, that tells me TC is a piss poor leader. Poor TC has no control over his PACs. They are independent and can not be controlled. What to do? Poor TC.
Give me a break!
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