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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Why don’t you explain why Cruz has not disavowed this attack on
Trumps wife?
Again...you have proof? Or like most Trumpbots are you talking out your fourth point of contact?
I’m 100% certain it’s the latter.
And today Ted disavowed that ad.... Right?
( crickets)
Which candidate plans on emulating Obama’s technique to win? he talked to John Stossel about it.
He told my producers recently, “I bought a copy of David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager’s book, ‘The Audacity to Win,’ gave it to our senior team (and told them) we are going to nakedly and shamelessly emulate this.”
Emulating Obama,,that’s the way this guy rolls. Can you guess who it is?
Your are correct . He threaten Senator Cruz. Looks like something a liberal would do.
Still pushing BS.
I don’t give two shits what Bill Clinton did. This about a PAC that posted GQ pics of Trump’s wife. As the adage says, you’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own set of facts.
But truth isn’t the objective now, is it?
Cruz is imploding.
Same meme that was put out and disproven after Iowa.
It’s mroe sore loser crap from the Trumpbots because Cruz crushed them in Utah and took all 50 delegates after Trump predicted he’d win.
Nothing more...nothing less.
That game is a fail, It was in his name and he did not disavow it in anyway. He ratified it and owns it.
I haven’t seen the PAC ad. Did it say, as law requires, ‘I am Ted Cruz and I approved this message’. Either Cruz broke the law, or it wasn’t his group.
I remember when the Citizens United decision was popular on this website.
Donald leads in delegates, and has a shut out on ‘threats against wife’.
“You have proof Cruz signed off on that ad?”
I guess we’ll find out. ‘Technically’ Cruz is not allowed to coordinate (LOL), but Cruz is MORE THAN WELCOME to publicly DENOUNCE THE AD against Trump.
Let’s see if he does. If he does, I’ll eat my words...but somehow I don’t expect that.
“Jethro Bush just endorsed Ted.
That tells me everything I need to know about HIS character.”
As a loyal sheep follower, you hear and say only what is convenient to you. What about Sharpton endorsing Trump. Does that say anything to you?
As was noted up thread...he did on twitter after Trump actually did threaten to attack Senator Cruz’s wife.
You obviously don’t like me, so I’m safe! :D
Bad night my arse!-)
Donald J. Trump 738
Ted Cruz 463
If Cruz DENOUNCED the ad, I’ll eat my words.
and YES, he is allowed to do that...but it won’t happen.
No, you’re wrong. It would be appropriate for Trump to tweet and say “Ted Cruz - do you disavow the ad against my wife?” and give Cruz a chance to respond, especially since it WASN’T CRUZ’S AD, but Donald went straight to making a threat against Cruz. Total dickhead move on Donald’s part.
His supporters are jackasses as well.
You apparently didn't read the twitter exchange between Trump and Cruz. Read that, then get back to us.
“Look everybody. Ted and the Tedomites already insisting it’s okay when they do it, but wrong when there is retaliation.”
They are complete hypocrites. By Ted not saying a word against the ad misrepresenting Melania, Ted is in fact giving tacit approval to smearing of candidate’s wives. Yet in the next breath he acts like he’s above that.
Amazing liar. He said he was going to emulate the Obama campaign and he sure is doing that. Sleaze and smut and lies.
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