Posted on 01/16/2016 7:16:47 AM PST by Helicondelta
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump took aim at rival Ted Cruz in a series of Saturday morning tweets, taunting Cruz over challenges to his citizenship and reports that he did not disclose campaign loans.
Trump has tried to stoke concerns that Cruz would face legal challenges to his eligibility for president because he was born in Canada. After a Friday lawsuit questioning exactly that, Trump took a victory lap.
"Ted Cruz was born in Canada and was a Canadian citizen until 15 months ago. Lawsuits have just been filed with more to follow. I told you soRepublican presidential front-runner Donald Trump took aim at rival Ted Cruz in a series of Saturday morning tweets, taunting Cruz over challenges to his citizenship and reports that he did not disclose campaign loans.
Trump has tried to stoke concerns that Cruz would face legal challenges to his eligibility for president because he was born in Canada. After a Friday lawsuit questioning exactly that, Trump took a victory lap.
"Ted Cruz was born in Canada and was a Canadian citizen until 15 months ago. Lawsuits have just been filed with more to follow. I told you so," he wrote".
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Dickens wrote Heep as a scheming, plotting character...the paradigm
***-kisser.... ingratiating himself into the good graces of his betters. .
No one knows this better than Donald.
BACKSTORY At the time Cruz got his hands on over a million dollars from his hefty margin account at G/S......he was whining in the media, telling Texas voters that he and his little wife (faithfully standing by her man) were having to liquidate their entire family savings (of slightly more than $1 million) to fuel a come-from-behind win in the Republican primary.
The Cruz tale has become legendary.....part and parcel of Cruz/s campaign narrative of a populist, scrappy Cruz putting everything on the line to overcome a wealthy establishment opponent.
(JUST SAYIN Most people would not have over a million dollars that they could easily liquidate on some cheap whim of being the prez.)
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Cruz/s belated disclosure of the loan was bombshell. In what was clearly a pre-meditated move (to give himself cover), Cruz did disclose the G/S loan....BUT not on the FEC form required by law. Now he will amend the FEC form.
The G/S loan is a bigger problem for Cruz than most candidates b/c of the way he/s structured his campaign.
He fashions himself as a homegrown guy w/ working class values, a harsh critic of big banks and Wall Street....says he/s just a Texas rube who/ll never have his name on a plane.
But wait a sec.....the whopper G/S loan makes Cruz look like more and more like a slickster....a slick pol, a powermonger who/ll go against his own principles to get into office.
Besides, Cruz/s drumbeat for H-1B/s never mentions that he was on the hook to H-1B user Goldman Sachs (big employers of H-1B/s) for over a million.
Ut oh ... apparently Donald found out Ted has more than one New York bank loan floating around. Conservative Treehouse. com has that story.
Ouch!!! That partnership is definately over.
I think Trump should look at Michelle Bachmann as VP. She’s a woman, a TP Conservative, and has been vocally supportive.
Natural Born Canadian. LOL. That one is going to sting Senator Cruzman Sachs.
Likely a set up with the Texas Democrats who hate Cruz as much as the GOPe does. He’s copying Hillary’s play book that told ISIS was using Trump’s Muslim comments in their recruitment video, and they were glad to oblige right on cue. Now Trump uses the same tactic on Cruz. Democrats always play dirty.
Wonder why no one is questioning the legality of Trump’s admitted bribing of public officials.
He said “He had to”. No he didn’t. He could have been a less-wealthy but honest businessman.
There is no confirmation that under FEC rules either of these two loans were required to be reported.
Both of these loans were personal loans secured with personal assets, not loans made to the campaign. The campaign was not responsible to pay back either loan.
All that is required , if anything, is an amended filing.
Trump’s VP race will be interesting. Allen West? Rudy? Petraeus? I seriously doubt Trump picks anybody from the beltway. I think he’ll look for someone with experience in national security to give him some help on those issues.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that Trump is, at best, a potentially dangerous buffoon.
The lawyer who filed is a Bernie Sanders supporter. He couldn’t litigate the suit himself because his license is suspended.
We had a NYC uber driver tell us, “that Cruz guy is not eligible”. Lol.
A Better Deal with Cuba, says Donald Trump
Humberto Fontova | Jan 16, 2016:
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"The US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has praised North Korea's despotic leader Kim Jong-un, saying the way he executes his political opponents shows "he's the boss".
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After coming to power when he was 28, Kim cemented his rule through a series of purges, including the execution of his uncle Jang Song Thaek.
"You've got to give him credit," Trump said. "How many young guys - he was like 26 or 25 when his father died - take over these tough generals, and all of a sudden - you know, it's pretty amazing when you think of it."
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Republican US presidential front-runner Donald Trump is apparently "honored" that Russian President Vladimir Putin considers the real-estate magnate a "flamboyant" and "very talented" man.
"It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond," Trump said in a statement, according to Politico.
He continued: "I have always felt that Russia and the United States should be able to work well with each other towards defeating terrorism and restoring world peace, not to mention trade and all of the other benefits derived from mutual respect."
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Born near the USA. :)
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The FEC requires candidates to disclose bank loans taken out to finance their bids for office simply because such loans can be used to subvert campaign finance laws.
If a candidate takes out a loan, in any amount, any entity can repay the loan on the candidate’s behalf – and that’s a way to subvert rules on the amount of contributions.
...third parties, who are part of the influence equation, could pay back the loan on the candidate’s behalf, avoid FEC/public scrutiny and hold influence over what the elected political official does in office.
• Was this second scenario a method for Wall Street, via Goldman Sachs, to put the well-educated husband of one of their “employees†into office, simply to insure that as a U.S. Senator he was friendly to their interests?
• Would Wall Street industrial bankers, who finance global corporations, be able to insure this type of candidate would, as an example, advocate for something like Trans-Pacific Trade?
• Would Wall Street institutional bankers, who benefit from low interest loans via U.S. Treasury, be able to influence such a candidate to avoid auditing the federal reserve?
• Would Wall Street institutional banking agents who benefit from low interest federal borrowing, and higher interest investment loaning, be able to influence policy regarding North American economic development?
• Would, as an example, a billionaire hedge-fund manager (Robert Mercer), who is in a legal fight with the IRS to the tune of $10 BILLION taxes owed, be willing to invest several million, perhaps tens of millions, into a presidential campaign in an effort to win the White House and influence a U.S. Tax Policy that would tilt the IRS scales in his favor – and consequently save him billions?
Cruz should start helping Trump straiten these questions out.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/21-questions-for-donald-trump/
He’s an open book and I’m sure the GOPe’s op research would have found all of this out by now.
Trump did tell him.
He even told him how to address it with a Declaratory Judgment. And Cruz had time to address it before the lawsuits. Not a lot of time, but it’s clear he didn’t intend to address it.
Now his supporters are on here saying a Declaratory Judgment has to follow a lawsuit, while Wikipedia says it’s usually filed when there is a threat of a lawsuit but one hasn’t been filed yet.
And when Cruz supporters aren’t spouting misinformation on Declaratory Judgment, they are trying to obscure the facts by saying SCOTUS doesn’t issue declaratory judgments. Trump didn’t tell him to go to SCOTUS, he said a Federal judge.
The willingness of Cruz supporters to twist the truth has me concerned about Cruz. I see Cruz having bad judgement on the economy on TPP and TPA, on the Corker Bill, on dissing NY, and on failing to take Trump’s advice on eligibility.
But what is it about Cruz that pull in dishonest supporters? I see it, but I don’t get it. I haven’t seen that out of Cruz himself, just his supporters.
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