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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There’s always a “wink & a nod” control over PACs.
To deny that reality is similar to living in the make believe world of a teacher’s lounge.
Lyin’ Ted knew exactly what was happening and still has not called it a disgusting & vile ad by a pro-Cruz supporter.
Now Lyin’ Ted is lying about Kasich in NY.
Lyin’ Ted....always lying!
Explain to me why Senator Cruz should apologize for something he did not do, nor have any control over.
“His negatives outweigh his positives.”
Yet you seem to back someone with a 70% negative rating among voters.
smh
Go back and read that twitter interchange between Cruz and Trump.
And again... check your facts before responding.
It's a Mormon thing. Ask Mittens.
If there’s nothing inappropriate about being a nude model, why is it an “attack” to point out that Mrs. Trump was a nude model?
Has Cruz disavowed the PAC ad against Trumps wife?
No. He has not.
“Trump sure seemed to think he did, and thus his response.”
Trump would knee jerk response like that to anything Cruz says or does...even if Cruz complimented Trumps 3rd wife.
Washington Post:
Cruz: a Candidate Bears Responsibility for the Culture of a Campaign
Ted Cruz comments on the David Duke non-endorsement, endorsement of Trump.
Next.
I have no respect for Cruz. The guy pretends to be something he isn’t.
Crybullies and hypocrites, too.
They savage Megyn Kelly for her old photo shoots then get all butthurt when it comes back around.
You have proof Cruz signed off on that ad?
According to Cruz supporters on FR, if you don’t disavow something, you support it. Like when Trump didn’t immediately disavow David Duke, it Meant that Trump supported racism and the KKK.
Even the JANITORS in DC know how the game is played.
BILL CLINTON did exactly the same. Clinton never said anything bad about his women, he had is SURROGATES DO IT.
I would not even be surprised if Cruz SUGGESTED the idea, but I have no evidence of that.
The Trumpettes are all about the narrative, not the truth. They know damned well that PAC isn't controlled by the Cruz campaign, but they perpetuate the BS anyway.
Yeah that
The internets already knew Cruz’s wife had a mental breakdown so Trump didn’t have anything to spill
“You have proof Cruz signed off on that ad?”
You have proof he didn’t know about it?
And you are not. Right? Like you could turn $100 million into $10 billion and construct beautifully designed buildings. Yeah sure. In your dreams. Yah welcome to the internet. The great leveler. Go back to DU where your fellow jealous loser hateful cretins reside.
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