Posted on 02/15/2016 6:37:02 PM PST by Kaslin
He said the same thing last week about suing Cruz if he doesn’t play nice, which is a weirdly conditional approach to the idea of someone whom you think is constitutionally ineligible becoming president. But we’ve been over that. Read this post if you missed it on Friday. What I want to know is what he means when he says the RNC should “intervene.” Intervene in what?
Ted Cruz is a totally unstable individual. He is the single biggest liar I've ever come across, in politics or otherwise, and I have seen some of the best of them. His statements are totally untrue and completely outrageous. It is hard to believe a person who proclaims to be a Christian could be so dishonest and lie so much…
One of the ways I can fight back is to bring a lawsuit against him relative to the fact that he was born in Canada and therefore cannot be President. If he doesn't take down his false ads and retract his lies, I will do so immediately. Additionally, the RNC should intervene and if they don't they are in default of their pledge to me.
I am the strongest on the borders and I will build a wall, and it will be a real wall. I am strongest on illegal immigration, strongest on ISIS, strongest on the military and I will take care of our Vets. I will end common core and preserve the second amendment. I will renegotiate our trade deals and bring our jobs back to our country. I am the only person who will Make America Great Again.
Read the full statement for a list of Cruz’s alleged lies about him. When he says “intervene,” does he mean the RNC should intervene to get Cruz to pull his ads? Or does he mean they should intervene in his lawsuit against Cruz, i.e. that the GOP should take it upon itself to find out in court if one of its top contenders is legally eligible for the presidency? And why, for the second time today, did he mention the RNC supposedly having broken its pledge? It sure does seem suddenly like Trump is eager to make the case that he’s no longer bound by his promise not to run third-party.
John Ziegler offers a theory on that:
@allahpundit AP this isn't about Trump going 3rd party, its about him not endorsing GOP Nom & creating dirty tricks narrative for convention
— John Ziegler (@Zigmanfreud) February 15, 2016
Good point. Trump’s image depends on him being seen as the consummate winner; if he loses to Cruz, he’ll need to explain how that possibly could have happened. The only tolerable excuse is that he was cheated — Cruz is ineligible, Cruz is lying about his record, Cruz gamed the vote in Iowa with dirty tricks, and so on. Maybe Trump’s even reached the point where, if it’s too late to go third-party, he can at least advise his supporters to stay home in November rather than support dirty cheater Ted Cruz as nominee. I remember Trump (or maybe one of his advisors) saying somewhere many months ago, maybe as earlier as last summer, that if he was destined to lose the nomination, he was going to take Jeb Bush down with him. The same logic may apply now to Cruz. That’s a bad deal for Trumpism in that Trump will have more leverage over the nominee if his endorsement is in play than if he’s rejected the GOP, but maybe Trump’s ego is now sufficiently bruised that revenge is the only option.
Speaking of which, D. Hawkins asks a good question. What ever happened to Cruz’s strategy of making nice with Trump in hopes of becoming his voters’ second choice? That strategy seems to have “failed” now that Trump’s calling him, ahem, “the single biggest liar I’ve ever come across.” My pal Karl points to this National Review piece from earlier this month explaining what went wrong:
Cruz felt confident that while the front-runner was energizing base voters, he wouldn't ultimately win them over. So he stayed in Trump's wake, banking on what he told allies would be a "natural transition" to his camp once conservatives determined that they liked Trump's message but not the messenger.
There was another strategic reason that Cruz spent the first six months of Trump's candidacy refusing to attack him: He was certain Bush would do it for him. Cruz and his team had long been convinced that because Bush needed to win New Hampshire - where Trump polls the strongest and where he is best organized - the former Florida governor would "go nuclear" on the billionaire real-estate mogul with the help of his super PAC's $100 million war chest. In turn, Cruz's team predicted, Trump would "go nuclear" on Bush, damaging both an anti-establishment threat and the man whom Cruz's camp once projected to emerge from the establishment lane as his chief rival for the nomination.
Bush and his Super PAC Death Star would eventually blow Trump up, Cruz thought, at which point the millions of Trump fans out there would instantly become Cruz fans. But it never happened: Although Jeb began attacking Trump, his PAC focused on tearing down Rubio. “Trump is, frankly, other people’s problem,” Super PAC chief Mike Murphy famously told WaPo back in August. As the months dragged on and Iowa crept closer, Cruz eventually had no choice but to do it himself. His new strategy, as described by Ben Shapiro, is based on separating himself from Trump in terms of their conservative bona fides after having spent months hugging Trump to prove their shared disdain for the establishment. The problem is, the nastier this gets, the less Trump fans may be willing to embrace Cruz notwithstanding the fact that he and Trump are the “outsider” candidates. Can Cruz win the nomination if he’s anathema to establishmentarians and to not-very-conservative populists?
Trump and Rubio Cannot Simply Scream Liar When Someone Points Out Their Actual Positions | Ted Cruz
How funny ..Trump is the only one capable of “nutting” up ... he’ll damn sure do it if Cruz doesn’t stop the Beck/Levin endorsed lies
Maybe he would end up being committed, lol
You know it will go no where.
I am shocked Ted has not called on him to do it.
No he didn’t. Trump acted like a spoiled child because Ted Cruz beat him in Iowa and he had to take number 2.
I seem to remember Jeb! suggesting several months ago that he would win the nomination without winning the Republican base, and I thought what a stupid and arrogant statement that was. After blaming W for 9/11, pushing the “Bush lied, people died” fantasy of the lunatic left, and defending Planned Parenthood, it seems that Trump now is actually trying to do what Jeb! merely suggested.
When Trump first came out he was my second choice behind Cruz, but I can’t imagine voting for Trump under any circumstances now, not in a primary and not in the general.
They are correct, he is a fake
Maybe he should just STFU
In your nightmare 4-way I see Bern 30, Bloom 17, Trump 26, Cruz 27 withpopular, God knows how the electoral would shake out.
I think the Dems win that matchup.
They get Cal, Ill, and NYS without spending a penny.
That’s a big electoral head start.
all part of the plan..
#14 So if that is the case why isn’t bloehard Donnie filing his lawsuit?
He’s a loudmouth coward that got away with these kind of bluffs at grade school recess and he hasn’t mentally progressed from it.
“Cruz pissed off Trump in Iowa and now Cruz is paying for it. How stupid of Cruz to do that. It totally ruined his campaign for something that may or may not have changed the results. Oh well.......he did it to himself.”
Cruz sold his soul to win 1 small state. By 2 delegates, was it? or only one?
He’s shown voters his true lack of character, and passed off the other candidates as well. Pretty dumb for so little gain.
“Trump, as he has done multiple times throughout this presidential race, invoked the Iraq War as a way to criticize Jeb Bush for his brother’s actions. “The World Trade Center came down during your brother’s reign, remember that,†Trump told Jeb, eliciting boos from the audience. Then regarding former president Bush starting the unpopular Iraq war, he said, “They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction and there were none. And they knew there were none.†- Donald Trump
The Washington Post reports that in a 2008 interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Trump said that Nancy Pelosi, who was Speaker of the House at the time, should have pushed for Bush’s impeachment because of his management of the Iraq war. When asked why, Trump replied, for “[getting] us into the war with lies,†a sentiment he repeated on Saturday night. However, the next morning during an appearance on ABC’s This Week, he said, “I don’t even think about it.†- Donald Trump
Though he previously depicted Bush’s actions as deliberate, on Sunday morning he distanced himself from those statements. On NBC’s Meet the Press, Trump backed away from his past impeachment calls, saying, “It may not have been impeachable because it was a mistake.†- Donald “Tell it like it is” Trump
Just keep in dreaming birther Trumpet
Oh yeah....1 delegate. And now we have Cruz solely blaming Rubio for the San Bernadino Tragedy and had to take the commercial down. Trump is going to go off on Cruz like no other time in history. Cruz better be ready. He so deserves it too.
I think it’s refreshing that Trump actually calls a politician a liar when he lies about his positions. What he’s doing is doing what most people would do if they were lied about in public. Most people would get angry and all a spade a spade. Trump isn’t playing politics as usual and chalking it up to political “rhetoric”.
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