Posted on 12/13/2015 8:16:20 AM PST by Isara
Donald Trump took aim at Sen. Ted Cruz Sunday, launching one of the first of what will likely be a series of attacks against the candidate now leading him in Iowa.
"I don't think he's qualified to be president," Trump said, arguing the Texas Republican's tenure in the Senate makes him too divisive for the job.
Cruz has been "frankly a little bit of a maniac," Trump said in a taped interview on Fox News. "You're never gonna be able to get things done that way."
"You can't walk into the Senate and scream and call people liars and not be able to cajole and get along with people," Trump said. "He'll never be able to get anything done and that's the problem with Ted."
Trump also appeared Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," touting his business success, his best-selling books and his TV show "The Apprentice."
"You don't make that kind of success without judgement," he added.
Trump was responding to comments from Cruz earlier this week questioning the real estate mogul's judgement. A Bloomberg News/Des Moines Register poll released Saturday showed Cruz opening a 10 point polling lead on Trump in Iowa.
"I would say I have far better judgement than Ted," Trump said. "I'm more capable."
Trump also stood by his controversial proposal to ban Muslims from entering the country on a temporary basis despite condemnation from the leaders of both parties.
"I'm about security. I'm about safety. I'm about borders," he said. "We have to have the right people coming into our country."
Trump defended his Muslim policy by arguing his Muslim friends supported the idea.
"They know they have a problem," he said.
The GOP front-runner blasted President Obama and Hillary Clinton for their reluctance to criticize radical Islam in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting.
"If you don't identify the problem, you're never going to solve the problem," he said.
IS Trump really on the same side. Why are his KEY donations on the WRONG side???
The Don has said he likes Cruz but The Don says he is getting the evangelicai vote becauswe Cruz is Cuban and not too many evangelicals come out of Cuba? Now he says Cruz is a maniac? But he likes Cruz after all ?
He says that Cruz screams and calls liars liars instead he should cajole and bend over politely cause he never will get nothin done standing up to the ciminals in the Senate like the one that pass bills just to find out whats is in the darn things after they shove them down our throats!
Funny I’m screaming too.
Man, that is the thought I keep having. I look at the totality of him and just can’t make the leap.
“Iâd call that an observation, Cruzâs perception, vs. An attack (also feel heâs absolutely correct).”
Cruz has perceptions because you agree while Trump attacks. That won’t play in the real world.
Milton Hershey, back before you could get tax breaks for doing charitable works, built a boarding school for orphans and impoverished children that has a campus that rivals many liberal arts colleges. It has provided scholarships for thousands of children for decades. He also built and funded a research hospital. It hasn't stopped his firm from employing thousands of people or from providing a separate endowment for the pensions of Pennsylvania state employees.
The two can't be compared.
And Trump's dad gave $1mm to a larger fund to build the NYC Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The memorial wasn't Donald's idea, his dad's donation was a small part of the larger endowment, Donald was the board member his dad deputized to represent the Trump Organization for the memorial planning commission, and he only showed up to two of the commission meetings and blew off more than 20 others.
He clearly didn't take it seriously at all - until it became political cover for him for his dad buying him out of actual service in Vietnam.
Almost 2000 New Yorkers gave their lives in Vietnam, and your claim that only Donald Trump - a coward who pled bone spurs as an excuse to dodge the draft - was the only person who thought of the memorial is ridiculous.
Ed Koch, the mayor of NYC and a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, started city planning on the Memorial at least three years before any Trump gave a dollar or joined a committee.
“Don’t go there, Donald! “
The Donald has a way of putting his finger on exactly the thing about other candidates that resonates with the voters, but they would never say:
Fiorina - that face, her interrupting, her business failures
Rubio - a sweaty boy who is a puppet of special interests
Jeb - nice guy, but low energy
Carson - pathological
Etc.
IF the voters are already wondering if Cruz is a bit of a maniac in the senate, this comment might have legs with them. If it is a false characterization in their minds, it will be quickly dropped.
It was Trump who did the Ethanol Kissup Rally in Iowa last Friday.
Cruz is NOT for ethanol subsidies or other energy subsidies, he’s told Iowa that. Trump said as late as Friday is 100% FOR ethanol subsidies.
Name ONE policy Trump has proposed “since” he started running for president that is going to received by Congress any better than Cruz’s policies?
Try winning without them...
Appropriately "rich" in that it comes from a 3rd-tier self-celebritized billionaire who (seven years after he praised John McCain as "a smart guy" and officially endorsed him for President even though Trump was a DEMOCRAT at the time), now calls McCain a "dummy" and a "loser" and belittles McCain's war status saying he's only considered a war "hero" because he was captured and "I like people who weren't captured," says Trump. He avoided it himself by taking FIVE DEFERRMENTS from being drafted for the same Viet Nam war that McCain risked and ended up being tortured for.
How obvious does it have to get before people start seeing Trump for what he really is? WORSE even than McCain?
now calls McCain a “dummy” and a “loser” ....He IS/ WAS and always will be. Keating Five, arming/starting ISIS and hoping to overrun the US with illegals? He is a disgrace to the word ‘veteran’.
Having looked carefully at both, I only love one of 'em in terms of the White House. One of them makes promises to be tomorrow what he was yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that. It establishes good credibility.
The other -- Trump -- makes promises that he will be tomorrow something very different from what he was yesterday and the day before.
Trump's credibility derives solely from a "personal brand" of unbridled success and flawless business judgment that he carefully established in the MSM and which, according to Forbes, he values as worth several billion dollars above and beyond his actual real/tangible assets -- see Forbes Magazine, "Trump Exaggerating his Net Worth by 100 Percent in Presidential Bid" 06/16/2015 (can't link because Forbes' website won't cooperate, but you can access the article through a google or bing search).
How important (and therefore justifiable) was Trump's skillfully-built "personal brand" in his success? Well, out of some 38 dozen billionaires in the United States, among whom Donald Trump is 3rd tier, the vast, vast majority have done quite well, many quite a lot better than Donald Trump, with no such "personal brand" whatsoever. That includes entrepreneurs, hoteliers, and several real estate moguls including one who is worth nearly four times more than Trump. And he didn't need no steenking "personal brand."
Trump's credibility is built on smoke, mirrors, and marketing. He's a BAD RISK.
You can vote for that kind of guy if you want, but when he betrays you, blame only yourself and your belief in MSM marketing that established Trump's "personal brand."
Better yet, step back, look more carefully, and recognize that in this contest, Cruz is the only guy worth voting for. See my tagline.
I trust Cruz, I don’t trust Trump. So, Don, you wouldn’t have mentioned the lie? You would have just been lied to face-to-face and not said anything about it later? I think you’re the liar now.
HOW STUPID WAS TRUMP TO DO THAT, when he could have dissed McCain with "Keating Five, arming/starting ISIS and hoping to overrun the US with illegals"?
The whole point is that Trump was too hot-headed and shallow to attack McCain on anything substantial, so he went instead for the lowest blow of all that grievously insulted every single American POW who ever lived and every single American POW who ever died?
Trump's behavior made him even more despicable than McCain, and that's saying something. Vote for a clown like that at your own risk.
In spite of his business/TV "brand" billionaire success at the time, this was his judgment only 8 years ago::
"Hillary's a great friend of mine. Her husband is a great friend of mine. They're fantastic people. I mean, they're -- you know, the thing, they get a bad knock. She's a very nice woman. People think, tough, tough. And I guess she's tough, but she's a very nice woman. And he's a very nice guy. We know all about the smarts, and how smart they are, and all, but they are good people."
Yeah. Way better judgment than Cruz. *rolls eyes*
Well, the ‘slaps’ will surely fly back and forth and regardless of who says what now, from either Cruz or Trump, these guys and their advisors are probably putting their chips down that these two guys will be at the top of the short list after the caucuses.
May the better man succeed, but that man had better have the fight to beat the filthy she-RAT.
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