Posted on 03/23/2016 5:57:36 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Ted Cruz attacked Donald Trumps 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 CNNs 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."
Trumps 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 Trumps 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 dont 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
“All Cruz has to do is denounce the ad.”
Agreed
because it was done in his name by his supporters on a national stage
You ever feel like you’re the only adult in the room?
It's the CruzLade.
CruzLade is Orange because Ted thinks the color orange gives Trump his secret superpowers... LOL! :)
Typical of Johny Come Lately troll to FR...you avoid the substance of what I said..and instead of rising to the occasion...you continue to dwell in the sewer.
Thanks for proving my point.
Yup, Texas did not show much love to beta-male cruz.
Perhaps he should move to Utah. :)
If he doesn't denounce the ad, then he owns it as the race moves out of Mormon country.
If he does denounce the ad, then it looks like he's capitulated to keep the "bombshell" hidden.
I don't normally subscribe to cartoonists as noteworthy political analysts, but I've been following Dilbert creator Scott Adams.
He has pointed out several times that Trump steers towards "conflicts" that provide him two ways to win.
I don't think he is a Trump supporter, but he is a pretty astute examiner of his mindset. He correctly predicts a lot of Trump's moves.
Since the Branch Trumpidians want to talk about lies...lets do this.
Claim: During Thursday evenings Fox News Republican presidential debate, Trump said families of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers had been living in the U.S. prior to that date. The wife knew exactly what was happening. They left two days early and they watched their husband on television flying into the World Trade Center, flying into the Pentagon.”
Fact: No relatives of 9/11 hijackers had been living in the U.S. prior to the attacks. Trump was likely referring to Osama bin Ladens family members, who were not known to have forewarning of the attack, and were evacuated by Saudi Arabias government nine days later for their safety.
Claim: Trump brought on controversy after refusing to disavow former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, who told listeners of his radio show to get active for Trumps campaign. Although he later disavowed the group amid heavy scrutiny, Trump said during a report: I dont know anything about David Duke, arguing he couldnt disavow someone he knew nothing about. He repeated the assertion three times.
Fact: Trump not only has mentioned Duke in the past but actually repudiated him during a Bloomberg interview in August 2015. Fifteen years ago, when Trump was considering running for president as a Reform Party candidate, he named Duke a cause for concern. Well, youve got David Duke just joined a big racist, a problem. I mean, this is not exactly the people you want in your party, he said.
Claim: Footage from one of Trump’s campaign ads shows dozens of people climbing over a border fence. Based on the context, one would have thought the footage was from the U.S.-Mexican border, as the narrator says of Trump: “He’ll stop illegal immigration by building a wall on our southern border that Mexico will pay for.”
Fact: The footage is not from the southern U.S. border but actually some 5,000 miles away in Morocco. It aired May 3, 2014, on Italian television, Politifact reported.
Claim: Trump said he would like a complete ban on Muslims entering the U.S., taking particular aim at Syrian refugee resettlement. Following the November 2015 attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead, Trump said: “Our president wants to take in 250,000 from Syria.”
Fact: President Barack Obama has announced plans to accept some 10,000 Syrian refugees nowhere near the 250,000 number Trump claimed. The claim might echo an October 2015 assertion made by Fox News host Sean Hannity, Politifact reported.
Claim: In October, Trump claimed that on 9/11, there were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down.
Fact: Not only was it not “well-covered,” as Trump claimed during an interview, but Trump’s campaign has been unable to provide evidence that any groups of Muslims were celebrating the attacks in New Jersey.
Claim: During a February CBS debate, Trump repeated a claim that he opposed the war in Iraq. He has said that his opposition to the war was “loud and clear.”
“I’m the only one on this stage that said, Do not go into Iraq. Do not attack Iraq,” Trump said during the debate. “Nobody else on this stage said that. And I said it loud and strong. And I was in the private sector. I wasn’t a politician, fortunately. But I said it, and I said it loud and clear: You’ll destabilize the Middle East.”
Fact: There is no known public record of Trump’s taking a clear stance against the war before it began. Three months after its outset, he did express skepticism during a Fox News interview, but hardly denounced it “loud and clear,” nor did he cite destabilization of the Middle East as part of the problem. A year later he offered much more strongly opposed statements.
Claim: Trump has frequently argued that Obama is a terrible negotiator. He once cited the May 2014 exchange of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, held by the Taliban, for five Guantanamo Bay detainees as a problematic deal made by the president. “They’re back on the battlefield, trying to kill everybody, including us,” he alleged, referring to the released Taliban members.
Fact: Politifact investigated the claim and found that each of the released detainees remained in Qatar, a U.S. ally, where they are under government surveillance. There is reportedly evidence, however, that at least one of the detainees has sought to reconnect with the Taliban.
Claim: During the Fox News debate Thursday evening, Trump said: “I beat Hillary Clinton in many polls. The Pew poll just came out. I beat Hillary Clinton in a recent Fox poll, I beat Hillary Clinton in USA Today, I beat her today in a poll in Ohio. I beat I’m the only one that beats Hillary Clinton.”
Fact: According to the latest Fox poll, Clinton would beat Trump in a general election. A USA Today poll, however, has Trump winning. Most polling since May indicates Clinton would be far more likely to win against Trump in a possible matchup, the Associated Press reported.
Claim: Trump has repeatedly criticized the Mexican government for illegal immigration into the U.S. “The Mexican government ... they send the bad ones over,” he said.
Fact: There’s no evidence of the Mexican government having sent over undocumented immigrants. Fox News Chris Wallace pressed the candidate during a debate, to which he cited personal conversations with people working at the border. Most immigration experts agree that undocumented crossing into the U.S. is tied to a desire to escape economic hardship and violence.
Claim: Trump has said the Iran nuclear deal would require that the U.S. side with Iran if it were attacked by Israel. “Nobody knows this and even talks about that point, but basically were supposed to protect them,” he said during a radio interview aired in Virginia.
Fact: The charge which has been made by some Israeli media outlets seems to be drawn from what many believe to be a misinterpretation of the agreement. It calls for protecting Iran’s nuclear material from being stolen by thieves or terrorists.
So Trumpidians...let’s talk about who is the real liar.
Cheer up. One of your Uniparty Cruznadian teammates is happy today.
What the hell are you talking about?
Cruz doubled the percentage of votes that Trump got.
Trump barely got above 25%.
“Lyin’ Ted Cruz denied that he had anything to do with the G.Q. model photo post of Melania”
Well, yeah! I’d say that those in control of the “GQ model photo” are GQ and the model. They are the ones that voluntarily entered into the agreement to have the photos taken.
“I would say that . That’s why we call him Lyin’ Ted!”
Then that is a pretty inexcusable reason.
I’ve got enough brain power and vocabulary that I don’t have to rely on shortcuts and childish .gifs to communicate with people.
Probably because unlike you I spend most of my time dealing with adults.
You wrote: "He already did that. How many times do you have to be told this?"
Well, a first time would be nice.
Humor me and post up the quote from Ted Cruz denouncing the ad, since I can't seem to find the exact quote in any of your multitudinous posts on this thread. :)
Then he should have gotten out in front of it and condemned that PAC and disavowed it.
Projection is what you are doing now.
Other people name call, so you imagined that you count do so to any and everybody with impunity. When your imagination failed to match reality it hurt your little feelings.
You accuse me of being a “Johny Come Lately troll to FR”, which is an html-encouraging forum, and even with all the years you are ahead of me here, you can’t respond with the full-spectrum abilities offered by this site. #BetaMaleCruz #weakness
*sigh*...ok here we go again...
“Cruz responded on Twitter by saying that the ad was not from him and if he went after his wife, then Trump is a ‘coward.’”
“”Pic of your wife not from us. Donald, if you try to attack Heidi, you’re more of a coward than I thought. #classless,” Cruz tweeted. “
“Trump appeared to be referring to a Facebook advertisement targeted to Mormons that shows Trump’s wife, Melania, posing nude. That ad was produced by an anti-Trump super PAC, Make America Awesome, which has no known connection to the Cruz campaign.”
“On Wednesday, Cruz reiterated he had no affiliation with the super PAC but added that Trumps bad behavior may have been the result of a bad night in Utah.”
Perhaps he should move to Utah. :)
T. Cruz 43.8% 1,239,370 104 D. Trump 26.7% 757,618 48
In his OWN state. LOL! What a beta-male Luzer!!!
“which is an html-encouraging forum”
The one consistent complaint by FReepers new and old is that the code used to run FR is very unwieldy.
I post at HTML friendly Forums all the time. ConservativeCave being one of them.
This is not an HTML friendly forum.
Wow. A cruznadian built a wall: an uninspiring unconvincing wall of text.
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