Cruz: Trump is an 'utterly amoral' bully, narcissist, pathological liar

The Hill ^ | May 03, 2016 | Ian Swanson and Jonathan Easley

[20yearsofinternet]

Ted Cruz laid into Donald Trump with his most personal and toughest criticism since the GOP presidential campaign began, calling him a "pathological liar" on Tuesday who doesn't understand the difference between the truth and lies.

Cruz prefaced his comments by saying that for the first time, he wanted to say exactly what he thought of Trump after the front-runner suggested Cruz's father might have had something to do with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The Texas senator accused Trump of being both disingenuine and self-aggrandizing, saying Trump was a "narcissist" at a level "I don't think this country has ever seen." "Donald Trump is such a narcissist that Barack Obama looks at him and says, 'Dude, what's your problem?' " Cruz said.

“Whatever lie he’s telling, in that minute he believes it, Cruz added. "But the man is utterly amoral. Morality does not exist for him.”

-SNIP-

“It’s why he went after Heidi directly, attacked her and smeared her," Cruz said. "Heidi isn’t pretty enough for him. ... Donald is a bully. ... Bullies don’t come from strength, they come from weakness. ... There’s a reason Donald builds giant buildings and puts his name on them everywhere he goes."

"Donald has a real problem with women," Cruz continued.

He then noted that Trump defended boxer Mike Tyson, who was convicted in Indiana on rape charges, and told Trump's supporters they should not believe their favored candidate.

"Donald is cynically exploiting that anger, and Donald is lying to his supporters," he said. He went on to insist Trump would betray his them by not doing what he promises, including his pledge to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Cruz's all-out assault suggested his campaign might be nearing its breaking point.

[mkjessup]

I think

No, you haven't thought about it at all.

there’s a lot of dirt that could be flung at Trump’s father that will get this sort of visceral reaction and worse.

Well let's hear some of it then.

[NelsonEddyFan]

By failing to back off earlier (and act “Presidential”, as he claimed he would months ago,) Trump has tarnished his own brand.

In the history of dirty primary campaigns, no major candidate has called another one a liar dozens and hundreds of times. Maybe that appeals to alpha-males, alpha-male-wannabes and alpha-male-worshippers, but my guess is that it has sounded pretty thuggish to the vast swatch of moderates who pick the winner in the electoral college.

As good a challenge as Sanders put up neither he or Hill plumbed the depths of personal nastiness our side has. November’s going to be a mess.

[mkjessup]

Oh I got some 'stuff' that I'm going to post right now, stuff that I'll bet nobody knows about, everybody ready?

On January 20, 2017, it will be 13 days after the 74th anniversary of Nikola Tesla's death on Jan 7 1943



(for those who might have missed the memo, Nikola Tesla was a brilliant scientist, many compare him favorably to the likes of Einstein)

Tesla died of heart failure alone in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel, on 7 January 1943.



Despite having sold his AC electricity patents, Tesla died with significant debts. Later that year the US Supreme Court upheld Tesla's patent number 645576 in a ruling that served as the basis for patented radio technology in the United States.

Soon after his death Tesla's safe was opened by his nephew Sava Kosanovic. Shortly thereafter Tesla's papers and other property were impounded by the United States' Alien Property Custodian office in Tesla's compound at the Manhattan Warehouse, even though he was a naturalized citizen.

A notable Professor at M.I.T. was appointed to go over Tesla's secret papers after his death in 1943. This professor was also a well-known electrical engineer serving as a technical aide to the National Defense Research Committee of the Office of Scientific Research & Development, Technical Aids, Div. 14, NDRC (predecessor agency to the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence).

After examining Tesla's papers at the Manhattan Warehouse & Storage Co., the professor reported afterwards that no examination had been made of the vast amount of Tesla's property, that had been in the basement of the New Yorker Hotel, ten years prior to Tesla's death, or of any of his papers, except those in his immediate possession at the time of his death. The final report concluded that it was unlikely that any of those materials would constitute a hazard in unfriendly hands.

At the time of his death, Tesla had been working on the Teleforce weapon, or 'death ray,' that he had unsuccessfully marketed to the US War Department. It appears that Teleforce was related to his research into ball lightning and plasma, and was conceived as a particle beam weapon. The US government did not find a prototype of the device in the safe.

After the FBI was contacted by the War Department, his papers were declared to be top secret. The personal effects were sequestered on the advice of several presidential advisers to FDR and J. Edgar Hoover declared the case most secret, because of the nature of Tesla's inventions and patents. One document stated that "Tesla is reported to have some 80 trunks in different places containing transcripts and plans having to do with his experiments". Altogether, in Tesla's effects, there were the contents of his safe, two truckloads of papers and apparati from his hotel, another 75 packing crates and trunks in a storage facility, and another 80 large storage trunks in another storage facility. The Navy and numerous federal officials spent two days microfilming many of the contents at the Office of Alien Properties storage facility in 1943.

Tesla's family and the Yugoslav embassy struggled with the American authorities to gain these items after his death because of the potential significance of some of his research. Eventually Mr. Kosanovic won possession of the materials, which are now housed in the Nikola Tesla Museum.

Tesla's funeral took place on 12 January 1943, at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan, New York City. His body was cremated and his ashes taken to Belgrade, Serbia, then-Yugoslavia in 1957. The urn was placed in the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade.

The name of the Professor who examined Tesla's papers and possessions?

Professor John G. TRUMP, Uncle of Donald Trump.

As Paul Harvey used to say, "now you know the REST of the story".

[SaveFerris]

[Teleforce weapon, or ‘death ray,’]

Charged particles, Mr. Muntz? The Death Beam. The weapons are available now. Expensive but available.

[SaveFerris]

Interesting stuff.

[TribalPrincess2U]

No, that’s what’s in the WH now!

[Lagmeister]

Neither of these clowns are presidential.

Actually, I like Trump because of what Lincoln said about Grant, "He fights!"

This entire presidential pap is like telling someone shut up and not be a denier. Trump isn't taking crap from anybody. Finally, somebody like that is in the hunt. Win or lose... kick some democrat ass.

[miss marmelstein]

Do I get points for eating regularly at the diner in the New Yorker hotel? Nicely renovated from the dump it was for a long time!

[mac_truck]

Yep, and vise versa.

Don't you wish...Trump trolls Cruz at his leisure.

There is no vice versa.

[onyx]

B T T T ! ! ! ©

[mkjessup]

Do I get points for eating regularly at the diner in the New Yorker hotel? Nicely renovated from the dump it was for a long time!

Really?!? Well you certainly get points in MY book!

Sometime if you think to snap some pictures of that diner, I'd love to see them (and I suspect so would others!).

Bon appetit! :)

[miss marmelstein]

When I did a show in NYC several years ago, we stayed there during late rehearsals.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Tesla was an amazing talent. So IS Donald Trump!

What the meaning of IS, is : )

[GizzyGirl]

Mark my words, some important obligation will pull her off of the campaign trail in a day or two, if there is one. Or, she will run to locations OTHER than the ones Felito is working.

I agree but when I watched it again, I was also thinking maybe she put him up to most of it... go for the kill Ted, you have to do it... something like that. And then he went to far, and she knew it! Not sure but I can't bare to watch it again!

[hal ogen]

Never let up...never stop fighting. It is similar to dealing with vampires...

[CodeToad]

So much for Ted’s “acting presidential”.

[hal ogen]

He has developed an effective brand...so what? He’s a businessman...not a career politician stealing taxpayers’ money and/or taking graft.

[miss marmelstein]

Let’s see if this link works:
http://www.stevepinker.com/New-York-III-1/i-DfmJcfs

[stephenjohnbanker]

Diner looks great!

[mkjessup]

[Teleforce weapon, or ‘death ray,’]

Charged particles, Mr. Muntz? The Death Beam. The weapons are available now. Expensive but available.

Ahhh, not death beams. (drum roll please)

The *ULTIMATE* Trump Conspiracy Theory !!

The story which remains untold BEHIND the story of Tesla, Professor John G. Trump, and the connection to Donald Trump in my post #143 ...

Among the inventions among Tesla's possessions was an actual working prototype of an electromagnetically powered *TIME PORTAL*, which allowed the one operating the device to peer into the future and witness future events BEFORE they happened. Even more importantly, the person viewing the future timeline could very subtly manipulate events and modify what would eventually occur.

Professor Trump knew that his brother Fred Trump would not be able to grasp the scientific concepts of the device and he also feared that to look into the future would frighten the wits out of him, but the good Professor determined that his favorite nephew Donald was imaginative, creative and certainly intelligent enough to understand the concepts, thus Professor Trump pirated the Time Portal right under the nose of federal agents and secreted the device under lock and key in the rural town of Cornwall New York, where his nephew would eventually attend New York Military Academy, graduating with the class of 1964.

Young Donald developed a keen understanding of the Time Portal and with encouragement from his Uncle, he began to very carefully 'tinker' with the future timeline, and when Professor Trump jokingly said "who knows Donald, maybe you'll see ahead far enough and learn that you're going to be President of the United States!"

And Donald thought to himself "why not?"

The rumors of a gigantic subterranean basement deep beneath Trump Tower have never been substantiated, however some nearby businesses and observers have talked about strange and ominous vibrations and resonant frequencies being generated from somewhere, noises that seem to come out from deep beneath the New York City subway system, even deeper than the sewers, where a curious thing reportedly happened, after a Trump party one New Year's Eve, someone commented about there "not being alligators in the sewer system", and Donald Trump laughed and said "you just never know" and oddly enough, the tourist attraction 'Gatorland' in Kissimmee Florida reported that they were missing over a dozen alligators from their locked and secured pens, the very next day on New Year's Day. The following week?

A rash of stories in the New York papers about people seeing alligators in the storm drains.

Who says Donald Trump doesn't have a sense of humor?

As for Ted Cruz?

He never had a chance. But at least he didn't get fed to the New York City alligators.

Glenn Beck however, might just be a likely candidate. :)