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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Cruz used to be my second choice. Sadly, he isn't even on my list any more. He's a lot like Obama, not responsible for anything.
Talk to me win your guy can pack a Starbucks.
You tell me. Did Ted Cruz come out and say that this “uncontrollable PACs” actions were dishonorable and condemn them?
If he hasn’t condemned them, the you’re the whacko in my opinion.
No, just trying to hold your candidate to the “standards” he professes.
win = when
Kindle Auto Correct is a Jihadi Terror Tool
Yeah never mind the fact that there’s been three separate articles from three separate sources showing that Cruz had NOTHING to do with the ad.
Gotta push the meme...repeat the propaganda.
Idiot.
Those numbers were so far out of whack. They were far off all other poll numbers as well as all the previous primaries and caucuses. There is no way they were legitimate. Lots of ballot stuffing going on apparently
He can’t apologize for what others do, but he sure should condemn it wholeheartedly. I’m mad he didn’t do that FIRST.
And you got clobbered in Arizona, Ted
you’re a bit of an a$$ aren’t you Ted...
The Cruzoninan lecture on how Trump should control his supporters was around that time.
Lawyers love double standards.
That’s because it’s much easier...not to mention a big fat deduction on his taxes to have Donald loan his campaign money and they pay himself back when it’s all said and done.
It's sad to see the lack of intellectual honesty from so called "conservative" FReepers here.
Had Trump done this, I'd be calling him on it.
Well Bob if Cruz is responsible for what someone else says or does in his name then Trump is responsible for what you say and do in his name.
Since you advocated for Trump to be an emperor and Trump didn’t stop you then it’s safe to say Trump wants to be emperor right?
Let me guess.
It doesn’t work that way with Trump only Cruz.
“I will spill the beans on your wife”
What are the beans that could be spilled? If it’s personal things about Heidi then I wouldn’t spill them, but if Heidi’s been doing political or financial hanky panky then we might need to know about that.
The fact his campaign didn’t do that ad — contrary to Trump’s claims — is good enough.
And sorry, but this just isn’t getting the media play you’re hoping for. More important issues are happening in the world these days.
That ain’t a disavowal!
That’s an excuse
Cruz is a weasel
I say that because of the way he pounced on Trump over the manufactured KKK and rentamob crises
Disavow the KKK Donald!
Disavow the violence mobs at your rallies Donald!
Wait, that PAC “ Make America Awesome” that published naked pictures of your wife in Utah? Get over it man, I didn’t know anything about it...
So Trump is responsible for the behavior of every person that attends his rallies. Cruz is not responsible for anything. Nice.
That ad had exactly zero to do with Cruz. It’s sole purpose is to attack Trump. The group’s aim is to take out Trump.
A reasonable person can be upset by that ad without using it as an opportunity to unfairly slam Cruz. I mean why didn’t Trump go after Kadich’s wife? Cause Kadich is no threat to him.
As to the ad. Not to my taste, but the pictures are in the public domain, were published in a well-known gentlemens’ mag. Up until the ad, Trump was proud of those photos.
Do you ever get tired of Cruz’s lies? He says Trump “attacked” his wife because of the Utah results, yet any moron knows that Trump tweeted about the wives BEFORE the Utah results.
And Heidi is fair game, since she is supposedly part of the Cruz vote for me package and a CFR globalist big bank shill.
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