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Trump's new top aide blasts Cruz for using 'Gestapo tactics' to win delegates...
Daily Mail ^ | 4/10/16 | CHRIS PLEASANCE

Posted on 04/11/2016 4:11:34 AM PDT by markomalley

He has been at the helm of Trump's delegate team for just three days, but Paul Manafort has already shown he will be pulling no punches when it comes to the billionaire's rivals.

Speaking to NBC's Meet The Press on Sunday, Manafort accused Cruz's team of 'Gestapo tactics, scorched-earth tactics' when it comes to the scrap for delegates.

Manafort also suggested that the Texas senator's team have been resorting to threats and intimidation in order to secure backers.

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Full headline: Trump's new top aide blasts Cruz for using 'Gestapo tactics' to win delegates and accuses the Texas senator of cheating
1 posted on 04/11/2016 4:11:34 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley
Gestapo was merely an attention grabbing word and it was very effective.







2 posted on 04/11/2016 4:13:30 AM PDT by onyx (You're here posting, so sign-up to DONATE MONTHLY!)
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To: markomalley
If Trump Doesn’t Understand 156 Year Old Political Rules, How Will He Understand the Presidency?
3 posted on 04/11/2016 4:18:20 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

http://theresurgent.com/if-trump-doesnt-understand-156-year-old-political-rules-how-will-he-understand-the-presidency/


4 posted on 04/11/2016 4:19:00 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: markomalley

Ted Cruz needs to write a book for Donald Trump and call it the “The Art Of The Delegates”!


5 posted on 04/11/2016 4:19:33 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Schemers, bureaucrats and insider political cronies follow “rules”. An American follows much a simpler and honest foundation - the US Constitution.


6 posted on 04/11/2016 4:24:52 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: markomalley
> Manafort also suggested that the Texas senator's team have been resorting to threats and intimidation in order to secure backers.

Project much ?

You Trump supporters need to insist on him dropping the Saul Alinsky crap.

7 posted on 04/11/2016 4:25:17 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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To: SecondAmendment

>You Trump supporters need to insist on him dropping the Saul Alinsky crap.

So who’s been intimidated by Trump? Well, besides those college kids who run screaming every time someone calks Trump 2016 on their campuses. I can see how they feel intimidated.


8 posted on 04/11/2016 4:27:01 AM PDT by RedWulf
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To: SecondAmendment

We’ve wanted Cruz to drop the Saul Alinsky crap since Carson in Iowa, but his lack of ethics and Lust for power drives him to seemingly endless corruption, but I feel your pain.


9 posted on 04/11/2016 4:27:59 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Gaffer

That’s why the stupid Senate rule (put in by Harry Reid) that nothing comes to the floor unless it already has 60 votes is unConstitutional. Why bother to deliberate if the only questions decided by the Senate already have the majority — why not just “deem” these questions already passed (a la Nancy Pelosi)and send them right to the President’s desk?


10 posted on 04/11/2016 4:28:36 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: onyx

Gestapo was merely an attention grabbing word and it was very effective.

Millenials probably think gestapo is a new Starbucks flavor.Trump has hired an out of touch campaign manager. What next, Pol Pot tactics. Oh, that is some Chinese dish.


11 posted on 04/11/2016 4:29:01 AM PDT by doosee (Captain, we are approaching a new level of Hell.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The current rules have been in place since 2012. Check your math blogpimp.


12 posted on 04/11/2016 4:29:30 AM PDT by Solson (Cruz/Graham 2016! The Eunuch Party)
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To: markomalley

in other words, the DT campaign was caught unprepared and flat-footed.


13 posted on 04/11/2016 4:30:11 AM PDT by avital2
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To: markomalley

Considering the antics in Colorado I’d say that’s a fair analysis

At this point Cruz is acting like a petulant child


14 posted on 04/11/2016 4:31:32 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: markomalley

It is clear at this point, the only “principled conservative” thing to do is to nominate the candidate with the least amount of delegates. Does anyone have 1 single delegate? If so, that’s our guy!


15 posted on 04/11/2016 4:32:30 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: Solson

The rules in Colorado were changed late last year. The way Colorado was handled was outrageous


16 posted on 04/11/2016 4:33:22 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

A minority party that believes in the Constitution (i.e., the second-tier Uniparty GOP) would have filed suit to allege those rules were unconstitutional and have them invalidated by the USSC.

The ball-less GOP (in my mind, Vichy Americans) chose not to do so because of ease, comfort in 2nd-tier status, and for their own entrenchment and advancement. They cared nothing about the Constitution’s America, nor us for that matter.


17 posted on 04/11/2016 4:34:39 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: A CA Guy
Cruz is the one using despicable Saul Alinsky tactics.....witness the Iowa Carson fiasco. But Cruz/s deplorable ethics and his unquenchnable lust for power drives him to seemingly endless corruption....

Crux is exactly the type of candidate the Framers of the Constitution wanted the new Nation to guard against.

18 posted on 04/11/2016 4:39:38 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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Cockamamie/Cruz/Canuck is fond of finagling the numbers to make himself look good.

When Trump won, Cruz made a "victory speech" saying 62% reject Trump....but Cruz never applies the reject vote to himself.

Cruz is the REAL reject in the pack.

19 posted on 04/11/2016 4:43:02 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: TexasCajun

“Ted Cruz needs to write a book for Donald Trump and call it the “The Art Of The Delegates”!”

Smile for the morning. Trump worshippers are all aglow at his credentials as a businessman for knowing the “rules” of business, but call Cruz a sleaze and a Liar for knowing the “rules” of gathering delegates


20 posted on 04/11/2016 4:43:07 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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