Posted on 03/23/2016 9:13:08 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Ted Cruz spoke to Chris Cuomo this morning on CNN about the Twitter battle that took place between the two of them last night on Western Tuesday. This is what he had to say:
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Cruz: But what Donald did last night, and listen, you’re in New York, you’ve seen this a lot. When Donald gets scared, when he gets angry, when he’s threatened, he begins yelling, he begins screaming, he begins often cursing, and he begins trying to be a bully. So last night Donald threatened my wife, he went directly after my wife. And I gotta tell you, number one- Heidi, my wife, she’s the daughter of missionaries in Africa, she’s my best friend in the world, and if Donald wants to get in a character fight, he’s better off sticking with me because Heidi is way out of his league. But it is also– it reveals a lot about character, it reveals a lot about class, that Donald’s instinct is to try to attack my wife and sully her. And you know what, that should be beneath Donald. But you know Chris, the reason he’s doing that? Is because he had a very bad night last night. He got clobbered in Utah. Remember Donald campaigned in Utah, he tried to win in Utah, and he got blown out of the water. And he is seeing Republican uniting behind our campaign.
He’s not wrong.
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Thank you, I wasn’t sure how many FReepers knew of or remembered the history of those hearings.
You post a graphic that is obviously fake and clearly designed to convey a false image of a candidate. Since Mr. Trump has not condemned your post should we conclude that he thinks it is appropriate.
To start with the easiest one first Ms Cruz is not an low-level employee who has the opinions that please her employer. She was a vice-president, who ran GS's Houston wealth-management unit, which handles portfolios for clients with an average net worth of $40 million.
The CFR website further specifies she served in the George W. Bush White House under Condoleezza Rice as the economic director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council. She previously served as the director of the Latin America office at the U.S. Treasury Department and as special assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, U.S. trade representative. Her opinions are intimately tied to her not her employers and she is on record as championing Governments being marginalized and merged.
The CFR report’s introduction went on to say that the task force “is pleased to provide specific advice on how the partnership can be pursued and realized,” noting the SPP “established ministerial-level working groups to address key security and economic issues facing North America and setting a short deadline for reporting back to their governments.” Critics of the plan have pointed out the European Union began as a free-trade agreement, much as the SPP was a further development of NAFTA.
In Europe, internationalist thinkers such as Jean Monnet helped develop the 1958 European Coal and Steel Agreement into a predecessor of the European Union, which operates today as a supranational regional government.
As to your second point: In the building industry there is graft, called by other names. If you look the amounts were mostly small, especially after 2011. This amount of money was peanuts and did not enable anyone. At the same time Donald Trump gave heavily to John McCain and many conservative politicians and organizations. Clearly he helped the conservatives more than the liberals if you want to evaluate it in those terms.
We went to two authoritative databases of campaign finance data to examine Ferguson’s numbers: OpenSecrets.org, to find federal donations, and FollowtheMoney.org, for state-level donations.
Trump has actually been relatively evenhanded in doling out cash to the two parties, but since 1989, he’s contributed over $350,000 more to Republicans running for federal and state offices, campaign finance records show. Data from the Federal Election Commission and state elections offices provided by the two websites show that Trump has given $584,850 to Democrats and $961,140 to the GOP over the last 26 years. (Politifact)
You don’t realize that Liz Mair does not work for Ted Cruz she runs her own anti-Trump PAC. Her pac is not even one of the pro-Cruz packs it is strictly an anti Trump PAC which is encouraging voters to support whichever candidate can beat Trump in a given state. Cruz would be violating the law to instruct her PAC on which adds she should or should not run. Trump quite literally threatened Cruz’s wife over an add that Cruz had absolutely no responsibility for and where it would be illegal for Cruz to try and influence what adds the PAC runs.
Its Trump supporters here on FR that are making utter fools of themselves attacking Cruz for an ad that he had literally nothing to do with. This add was run by an anti-trump PAC that is not even one of Cruz’s allied PACs. It would literally be illegal for Cruz to have any imput into what adds they run or do not run. Cruz let Trump know this last night and yet Trump and his supporters today are still trying to repeat the big lie.
its so easy to pull the cringing scum out of their dark corners...LOL
Cruz had absolutely nothing to do with that add. It is illegal for a candidate to coordinate add campaigns with a PAC and the PAC that made this add is not even one of Cruz’s allied PAC’s. Its an anti Trump PAC that supports whichever candidate can beat Trump in a given state.
I’m sure you’ve seen my many responses to that.
Thanks for your input Mitt.
...”Trump quite literally threatened Cruz’s wife over an add that Cruz had absolutely no responsibility for and where it would be illegal for Cruz to try and influence what adds the PAC runs”.....
Trump always spins what ever is possible to point the finger at Cruz because he’s running ‘a one man show’...Trump doesn’t understand all the elements in an election “campaign” because he’s still flying by the seat of his pants via media, press meetings and twitter.
Exactly. So Trump and his supporters should not be claiming Cruz was involved. Thank you for agreeing with me that Trump and his supporters are in the wrong here.
That is such a non sequitur I cringe. You have my sympathy.
Cruz has yet to attack Trump’s wife.
For that matter, I wouldn’t call the anti-Trump PAC’s Melania photo ad an attack on Trump’s wife, either. Melania knew when the picture was taken that it would be public; it’s not like it was a private pic she meant only for her husband that someone stole and published.
Personally, I think she looks fine in that pic, and I expected Trump to blow it off — “She’s a beautiful woman; anyone who puts her down for that picture is just jealous.” I was surprised when he blew up instead.
Still, how that ad is an argument against Trump that would have the remotest influence on a Trump fan I cannot fathom. I’m not a Trump fan, but best I can tell, Melania would make a lovely first lady (and I mean that in the old fashioned sense, i.e. that she is graceful and charming, not just beautiful).
Cruz has figured out what buttons to push to make this hot head implode on his own.
Oh really. Thanks for explaining those PAC rules. They are rather exacting. Still, a candidate could come forward and openly ‘disavow’ or say that they do not agree with any certain ad I would think. We’ll see what happens.
I wasn’t agreeing with you that Trump was wrong...I was telling YOU that you shouldn’t make comments without proof...
More than likely, the GOPe is going to want to czy up to Trump id Trump gets the required number of delegates...Either that or they will bury the GOPe by trying their best to take what he won away from him...
Trump has already shown the GOPe that is not their lackey...
I know, I was just laughing at the irony.
Trump says Cruz worked with the unrelated SuperPAC without proof: Okay according to you.
Trump’s supporters say Cruz worked with the unrelated SuperPAC without proof: Okay with you.
I say Cruz didn’t work with the unrelated SuperPAC because there’s no proof: You demand I prove a negative.
I swear its like talking to the Clinton White House in the 90’s. People can make accusations against the enemy all day long without proof and you’re happy. Someone calls them on it and you demand that they prove the people without evidence are the ones who are wrong.
That’s not how things work. Allegations have to be proven, not disproved. What’s next? The nature of the evidence is irrelevant, it’s the seriousness of the charge that matters.”?
Posting of one’s appearance might be considered low, but does anyone else think that Ted Cruz looks like Homer Simpson’s boss, Mr Burns, at the nuclear plant.
“I swear its like talking to the Clinton White House in the 90’s. People can make accusations against the enemy all day long without proof and you’re happy. Someone calls them on it and you demand that they prove the people without evidence are the ones who are wrong.
That’s not how things work. Allegations have to be proven, not disproved. What’s next? The nature of the evidence is irrelevant, it’s the seriousness of the charge that matters.”?”
You’ve hit the nail on the head!
This is an transparently obvious political tactic by both Trump and Trumpbots. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Trumpbots were on the Trump payroll.
They will throw anything against the wall that they can, rather than talk about what Ducking Donnie actually stands for (BTW, that’s a really short list).
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