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Trump: Cruz's campaign bought rights to GQ photo
Hill ^ | March 27, 2016, 10:56 am | Rebecca Savransky

Posted on 03/27/2016 2:17:14 PM PDT by Red Steel

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Sunday slammed rival Ted Cruz for the recent ad produced by an anti-Trump super-PAC featuring a photo of Trump's wife posing nude.

"From what I hear, he and his campaign went out and bought the cover shoot. Melania did a cover story for 'GQ,' a very strong modeling picture. No big deal," Trump said on ABC's "This Week."

"But it was a cover story for 'GQ,' a big magazine. And it was, you know, fine. And from what I hear, somebody bought the rights to it and he was the one or his campaign bought the rights and they gave it to the super PAC."

Trump said Cruz knew about the ad, adding he started the latest fight between the two. Last week, Trump threatened to "spill the beans" on Cruz's wife in response to the ad featuring Melania Trump. He then shared a tweet featuring a photo of his wife next to a photo of Cruz's wife, stating, "A picture is worth a thousands words."

Cruz has denied knowing anything about the ad, and called it deplorable on Sunday.

But Trump said the super PAC that produced the ad is "very friendly to Ted Cruz."

"He knew all about it, 100 percent," he said.

"There's no way in a million years that super PAC did that without his absolute knowledge."


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Texas
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To: abigkahuna

So it’s independent sourcing? Not an echo?


241 posted on 03/28/2016 2:28:27 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama giving away the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts)
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To: Candor7

I suppose Trump would not have said that if it could backfire on him.

Thank you for bringing attention to it.


242 posted on 03/28/2016 2:41:09 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama giving away the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts)
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To: SunkenCiv; Liz; Greetings_Puny_Humans

Trump must have investigated this independently.

No longer some obscure tweet.


243 posted on 03/28/2016 2:42:27 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama giving away the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Only a phone call away to GQ on Monday morning to confirm.


244 posted on 03/28/2016 3:11:43 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: marron

Trump: “FROM WHAT I HEAR...”

At the Trumpaholics are accusing TED of hedging?

And the Trumpaholics take this rumormongering as PROOF?

Both stupid and disgusting in equal measure.


245 posted on 03/28/2016 3:22:06 AM PDT by John Valentine ( Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: longfellowsmuse

I agree, Trump is not as thin skinned as some suppose, but not me.

If they were married or not is an issue because some are posting he let his wife pose nude. So it is also important to correct people saying the photos were nude photos.

I’d already seen the photos a long time ago, when this story broke I searched for her nude photos. My bad.


246 posted on 03/28/2016 4:42:33 AM PDT by stockpirate (We must burn down the republican party, to save it for “We the People” (Palin Trump is the 1st wav)
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To: stockpirate

Yes she was.

But wait. When Trumpettes accuse Cruz of publishing the photos they are “nude photos” but when they are defending this nude model as a “classy woman” those same pics aren’t nude.

Is your gas tank full yet?


247 posted on 03/28/2016 6:17:37 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

I only mentioned she wasn’t nude, from that you made up all that other crap.

busTED sCruz started this because he knew the sex article was coming out. His hope was to deflect his “Bang of 8” problem.

My post didn’t sling an insult at you, but yours did which lets me know who you support.


248 posted on 03/28/2016 6:33:12 AM PDT by stockpirate (We must burn down the republican party, to save it for “We the People” (Palin Trump is the 1st wav)
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

I hope that Ted Cruz has not had affairs and cheated on his wife. Not because I have some romanticized idea about him being the perfect conservative, but because of the pain it will cause his family, specifically his two innocent daughters. America does not need yet another broken family. I am not an evangelical and I don’t have a problem with the photo.

You seem to know for certain that Ted Cruz has cheated and that the story will grow in the media. I have no idea if you are correct or not. I do know that I will not be thankful for a family being torn apart just for the opportunity to say I told you so to people who foolishly pin all their hopes on men and not God. For the record, I would feel the same way the rumors were about Trump instead of Cruz.


249 posted on 03/28/2016 7:08:20 AM PDT by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: stockpirate

Nothing was made up.

How you guys define a nude model as “classy” and a role mode for conservatives is amazing.


250 posted on 03/28/2016 7:25:46 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

Sorry but don’t post to me, you’re a moroon. I only said she wasn’t nude, everything you made up.


251 posted on 03/28/2016 7:30:17 AM PDT by stockpirate (Rush is a low information talk show host.)
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To: stockpirate

She was nude. Heck Trumps own son referred to his step-mothers pictures as “nude”.


252 posted on 03/28/2016 7:48:50 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

It doesn’t matter who thinks or says she was nude, she in fact has something on covering key aspects of her body, this not nude.

So occording to your logic McConnel or Graham saying their consrrvatives makes them conservatives.


253 posted on 03/28/2016 8:02:45 AM PDT by stockpirate (Rush is a low information talk show host.)
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To: Ozark Tom; etcb
Antoine Verglas is the photographer, and here are his words:

As for Verglas, he’s concerned about the photo of Melania being shared without his permission. He says he has spoken to a lawyer about what he can do:

I never gave any approval for this image to be used anywhere else but GQ in the U.K. It puts me in a very weird situation as I have to protect my intellectual property and the privacy of Melania Trump … I don’t want those pictures to be used in certain ways which are inappropriate.

254 posted on 03/28/2016 8:05:31 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: stockpirate

So she’s nude when you want to bash Cruz, but not nude when you want to tout this woman as a classy first lady.

The people who own the pictures, GQ, call them nude.

She’s not wearing any clothes in the pictures. That equals nude in everyone elses book except yours apparently.


255 posted on 03/28/2016 8:07:36 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: stockpirate

You probably have an excuse for the fact Trump was married to another woman when he started sleeping with this woman.

Or maybe thats Cruz’s fault too??


256 posted on 03/28/2016 8:09:20 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

No excuse, but Trump is pretending to be the anointed one sent from god to save us. Trump admits his shortcomings, sCruz pretends he’s someone he isn’t, “a man of god”


257 posted on 03/28/2016 8:11:47 AM PDT by stockpirate (Rush is a low information talk show host.)
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To: driftdiver

Only the smart ones know she isn’t nude. The arguement is not how you present it. So come back when you figure out what the arguement is about.

What time do you get off at the sCruz campign office?


258 posted on 03/28/2016 8:14:38 AM PDT by stockpirate (Rush is a low information talk show host.)
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To: stockpirate

Cruz admits hes a sinner. At least he accepts that instead of comparing his sins to his own private “vietnam” as Trump has.

I’d rather follow someone imperfect but who accepts Jesus as his savior, than someone who thinks he’s god.


259 posted on 03/28/2016 8:15:17 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: stockpirate

Trump, Trumps son, GQ and the rest of the world all call em nude.

She’s not wearing any clothes in some of them. In others she’s posed very provactively with her assets barely covered.

She’s a nude model. Saying she’s not is dishonest.

Is that part of Trumps new talking points?


260 posted on 03/28/2016 8:17:09 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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