A PAC supporting Cruz explicitly solicited votes for Cruz using Trump's wife. All Trump did was tell Cruz to rein in the PAC.
Cruz never even disavowed the original ad.
Ted Cruz is a POS.
A PAC that Cruz has no contact with by law made a sleazy ad. Trump’s response was to immediately attack Cruz’s wife, who had nothing to do with the ad rather than look at the facts.
If Trump had called on Cruz to disavow the ad, or if it had ran for a while and Cruz said nothing, I’d agree with you. But I’m not going to fault a guy for not defending someone who attacked his wife. Is that what you would do? If someone attacked your spouse and threatened to spill secrets or even make things up about him/her, would you rush to defend the attacker or your spouse?